Methuen Drama

It starts ? like many stories ? with a man. A man leaving ? heard that before? A man going off to find his fortune. A man going off to start a war. Telemachus was just a baby when his dad Odysseus...

This revised edition of the play is published alongside commentary and notes by Christopher Collins, Assistant Professor of Drama at the University of Nottingham, UK. It includes information for...

The Poltergeist (Modern Plays)Author: Philip RidleyPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Nov 20, 2020Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350241156ISBN-13:...

You are a Prince, not a pauper. And before too long the whole of England will be in your hands... Jemma Kennedy's stage adaptation of The Prince and the Pauper is a dynamic and fast-paced adaptation...

This scathing satire and parable transposes the rise of Hitler to gangland Chicago and continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today.Author: Bertolt BrechtPublisher: Methuen...

The Ruling Class (Modern Plays)Author: Peter BarnesPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jan 16, 2015Number of Pages: 136 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1474248535ISBN-13:...

I haven't hurt anyone, killed, raped, murdered - I just ran away - came here to be safe. But I'm locked up. I just - I can't believe this is England. They have run away from unimaginable horrors...

Chekhov's celebrated masterpiece is given vibrant new life in this dynamic new version by Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. Switching effortlessly between the ridiculous and the...

First performed by the Royal Shakespeare Company in the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, on 24 November, 2016.Author: Anders LustgartenPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Nov 24, 2016Number...

The Seven Pomegranate SeedsAuthor: Colin TeevanPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Dec 16, 2021Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350301167ISBN-13:...

Based loosely on The Science of Discworld II: the Globe, Lords & Ladies, and A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Shakespeare Codex is a new Discworld stage adaptation written to commemorate Terry...

The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or classroom. It is an easy-to-use text providing practical...

Last night I tried not to be shy, just as an experiment for one night - and with catastrophic results. 17 year old Callum is proud to be shy and he thinks you should be too, because what this noisy,...

Things are getting tough for Sam. No job, benefits stopped and stuck in a tiny flat with his girlfriend Maya and her mum. The pressure is building. It feels like there might be only one way out. But...

The first comprehensive study of August Wilson's drama introduces the major themes and motifs that unite Wilson's ten-play cycle about African American life in each decade of the twentieth century...

Perfect for students of English Literature, Theatre Studies and American Studies at college and university, The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a lucid and stimulating analysis of Willams'...

The TreatyAuthor: Colin MurphyPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jan 10, 2022Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350299871ISBN-13: 9781350299870

Really, we don't have to keep worrying about the time, Gordon. Let's just sit here together. Okay? For a little while. London is sinking, there's constant rain, and everyone is trying to escape...

The roaring twenties. A world in flux. The magnetic Florence Lancaster draws people to her like moths to a flame. But when her son Nicky arrives home from Paris with an unexpected fiancée and a...

The War Of The Worlds (Modern Plays)Author: Isley LynnPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: June 03, 2021Number of Pages: 96 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 135026993XISBN-13:...

The Wheelchair On My Face: A Look Back At A Myopic Childhood (Modern Plays)Author: Sonya KellyPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jul 28, 2022Number of Pages: 32 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

This fully re-edited, modernised play text is accompanied by insightful commentary notes, while its lively introduction provides an essential contextual grounding in the court scandals, anti-Catholic...

Life's full of clatter, but none of it matters, only who'll hold your paw when you die. What would you do if you lost an hour from your day? How far would you go to rescue what you've lost? In search...

Friendship makes us fresh. And doth beget new courage in our breasts. A new play for young people and schools, created from Shakespeare's works. In this wood of words, a band of newcomers arrive to...

Written in the aftermath of the Covid crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatre-going together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners,...

Imagining five artist-mystics as a hierophantic faculty in a mystery school, Gough creates a series of lectures that move in that liminal space between skepticism and knowledge to ask questions about...

This book provides an insight into the life of a professional lighting designer, through interviews with lighting designers at different stages of their careers plus a group interview with the...

Examining the theories behind stage lighting practice to help students learn to analyze the aesthetic and critical impacts of light in performance, this book traces the development of lighting...

Just wanna be a better mother, that's all... some sort of a decent mother. Tina can't get through to her son. Stuck on the drink and tormented by her past, what will she do to get his attention?...

All the girls love a bastard. Tom Jones follows the adventures of a young man of illegitimate birth through a tale of love, deception and mistaken identity; a feast of human nature, served up in the...