This collection brings together five plays from the 1970s and 1980s by
"Britain's leading contemporary playwright" (The Times), including
Fanshen, A Map of the World, Saigon: Year of the Cat, The Bay at
Nice, and The Secret Rapture. Of the title play, Frank Rich of the
New York Times said, "The Secret Rapture has gone further than before
in marrying political thought to the compelling drama of lives that
refuse to conform to any ideology's utopian plan. . . . Mr. Hare
embraces the human, messy though it may be."