This collection of award-winning plays features works from the cutting edge of Central and Eastern European theatre.

With a foreword by Gerald Lidstone, Eastern Promise brings together seven women writers who have all experienced living at a time when their countries were part of a larger political entity. For Gabriela Preissova, it was the Austro-Hungarian Empire, for the others, the soviet bloc. Some of the moral and political dilemmas their characters face range from the killing of a child, to the betrayal of a comrade, to reinventing oneself as a way of living in exile.

Includes the plays: Jenufa (Her Step-daughter), The Umbilical Cord, Tulip Doctor, The Tender Mercies, Nascendo, The Chosen Ones and Belgrade Trilogy.