The plays in this volume engage with the quintessential themes of the author's work. The Light Upon the Candle reflects on the conflict between the individual and society, the fine line between between consent and coercion, the poetry of transcendental longing, the perennial fall from paradise, and the hopes and failures of the age of rationalism. The Star in The Cross dramatises, with sublety, vigour, and humanity the genesis of the Arab-Israeli conflict, its multi-layered origins, the spectre of Anti-Semitism and contemporary Hungary, and the poignant endurance of a sense of belonging in a world that seems always against it.