Kroetz Plays: 1: The Farmyard, Request Programme, the Nest, Tom Fool, Through the Leaves, DesireThis is the first collection of plays available in the UK by Germany's most famous living playwright. Spanning his work from 1972 94, the volume contains six of his most representative plays, some of which have been produced to great acclaim in this country. Request Concert (1972) is an extraordinary silent play which shows the last moments in a woman's life before her suicide; The Nest (1975) shows the fatal action that an employee takes in order to