Methuen Drama

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...

It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not...

Where you standing? I say where you standing on this? You think it happened or you don't think it happened? Generations of secrets have broken the Brook family. Siblings split-up, traded-off, treated...

I just remember, even as a, as a young . . . man, not even man, just a boy . . . when nothing makes sense, and you're not sure who you are . . . the idea of - the strength of the person that stands...

Touchstone Tales: Stories of Touch inspired by the lives of Lutonians (Modern Plays)Author: Sudha BhucharPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Nov 26, 2020Number of Pages: 120 pagesLanguage:...

A practical guide to the principles of teaching and learning movement, this book instructs the actor on how to train the body to become a medium of expression. Starting with a break-down of the...

This is the person I am now. It's the person I want to be, should have been for a long time. We got dark, Sophie. Things got dark, and I...I'm better now. I'm in a better place... Once our lives are...

A pressing new play about racial discrimination amongst US Army officers within a non-segregated Welsh town during the Second World War, from award-winning playwright Diana Nneka Atuona.Author: Diana...

And that's the moment when I leave. The moment when the jokes fail us. When I fail. I fail. This precise moment here, look, see with your ears. The Fool leaves King Lear before the blinding. Before...

I always thought Mondays were the worst. You tell yourself get through the day, by Tuesday you'll be back on the wagon . . . But sometimes, by the time Tuesday comes, if you're still just the same,...

David Lan's new version of one of Chekhov's greatest plays, was commissioned for a co-production between the Royal Shakespeare Company and the Young Vic. Directed by Katie Mitchell, it premiered at...

Spanning half a lifetime, Under Three Moons takes place on three nights across three decades of two friends' lives. From a school trip to France as teenagers, to a surf shack in their twenties, to...

Sex is easy. Intimacy is hard. A tender, funny and uplifting love story for the post-chemsex generation. Hunky dream boy Lex and bright spark Bradley are falling for each other. Big time. After three...

Very Special Guest StarAuthor: Tom WrightPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jan 04, 2022Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350304018ISBN-13: 9781350304017

Performed as a one-woman show, Victim follows the power struggle between prison guard Tracey and criminal Siobhan as they come face-to-face with a notorious inmate. As they both muse on their lives...

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because I'm just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Welcome to the village of Syresham; it's not quite the...

I remember the first time I met her. By her you know who I mean Tired of her highly paid sales job, Rachel makes a move into social work only to find herself involved in a controversial case bringing...

The sharpest, funniest comedy about money and morals in the 17th century is still the sharpest and funniest about those things in the 21st. The full, modernised play text is accompanied by incisive...

Walls And Windows (Modern Plays)Author: Rosaleen McDonaghPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Oct 04, 2021Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350293482ISBN-13:...

We are Proud to Present a Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Furmerly Known as Southwest Africa, From the German Sudwestafrika, Between the Years 1884 - 1915 (Modern Classics)Author: Jackie...

The amazing adventures of a woman with a fist in her head. Clara Darcy is fit! She's also (almost) care-free, (kind of) happily single and joyously dancing through life but, little does she know, her...

The show that we're about to do is a story about the future. The story that we're going to tell is the story of us; the story of our future. It's a story that we are going to tell together. I hope...

The stage of the 1700s established a star culture with the emergence of acting celebrities such as David Garrick, Susannah Cibber and Sarah Siddons. It placed Shakespeare at the heart of the...

Well here's the problem Edrina, the law in this country doesn't work with stories. It only works with facts. And to put it simply, your story - look it just isn't credible. Edrina was trafficked from...

I don't understand it. I've still got muscles, tendons, sinews, whatnots ? nothing's changed skeleton wise, body wise. It's still all intact. Yet it doesn't work. It won't move itself. Leaping...

I'm doing this for her because this was my sister's dream. This isn't my natural habitat. I wouldn't normally choose this. But she would have. Two sisters. One dream. The hardest open-water swim in...

Who Cares (Modern Plays)Author: Matt WoodheadPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Oct 22, 2021Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350306835ISBN-13: 9781350306837

My story is about love... No, it's about loss... No, it's about love and loss and pain and loneliness... But it's funny!Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive...