These two plays, the most recent original stage-work by one of the acknowledged major dramatists of our time, exhibit a stark technical contrast: the one, a 2-hander tightly tethered within the classical Unities of theme and space and the time-span of a single day; the other, an explosive multitudinous epic crossing continents and centuries and passing between worlds. Yet both speak with the same unmistakeable voice, informed by what Michael Billington has called a 'haunted imagination' and a unique thematic territory 'guarded as fiercely as by a dragon'. They offer an exhilarating, sometimes disturbing challenge, to the cultural and political perceptions of a contemporary audience.