Methuen Drama

Gerry Adams has disguised himself as a newborn baby and successfully infiltrated my family home. Eric Miller is a Belfast Loyalist. He believes his five-week old granddaughter is Gerry Adams. His...

His uniform is picturesque; a hat with triple plume Doublet, cape, and sword - worn like a peacock's tail. From the eyebrows up, he's all feathers From the neck down, it's buckle and swash - But...

In rooms like this room people lie. Not little lies, the kinds of lies that kill people, or worse... In this room, or in rooms like this room, they use phrases like collateral damage, like...

In spite of my desperation I have been patient, in spite of my bewilderment I have been understanding, in spite of my feeling of utter abandonment ... I've been hanging on in there. Trying to help...

What would I do if I met him? I'd prob'ly kiss his feet. I'd prob'ly kiss his big banana feet. If you don't know who Billy Connolly is, ask the people of Scotland. And if you want to know about the...

Death of England (Modern Plays)Author: Roy WilliamsPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jan 30, 2020Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350167894ISBN-13:...

Death of England: Delroy (Modern Plays)Author: Roy WilliamsPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Oct 21, 2020Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Witty satire, political drama, transgressive social commentary, mystical meditation; for years, these topics were banned from the stage. In the late 19th and early 20th centuries decadent writers...

2020 was a year in which global politics radically shifted, catalyzed by the Covid-19 pandemic and the #BlackLivesMatter movement. This book is a response to that year, asking was it a moment or is...

"She's goin' back there. I can tell.She's breakin' her promise.She's breakin' my heart.She said she never would." Sive and Orlaith are twelve and thirteen. Yet despite their age, they are each...

They're sayin I brought it on myself. Oh yeah, they've heard about me. Basically it must've been my fault cause I'm me, Destiny. Destiny dreams big. She dreams glamour. She's gonna be an MTV Base...

How do you choose a musical to direct that suits your amateur theatre group's needs? How do you run an open and fair audition process and cast a show appropriately? How do you design a rehearsal...

Two hopeful, hapless romantics get drunk, get it on, and then get the hell away from each other. In her eyes, he's a mistake. A mistake who keeps turning up at parties. In his eyes, she's perfect...

One morning, as I was writing, I suddenly understood that as a species, through incredible stubbornness, we were able to write love into our genetic makeup, and that this is enough to redeem us all...

My son is dead and sitting on the throne. 1605. Orthodox Russia stands alone, defiant against the Roman Catholic and Protestant West. The Kremlin has suppressed all opposition and keeps a ruthless...

Yasmin Sheikh feels torn in the city she used to call home, but Aisha sees a different London to her best friend. When Yasmin suddenly disappears to Syria, Aisha embarks on a mission to uncover the...

If you could press a button and one hundred thousand vulnerable citizens died instantly but the rest of the population of the planet was guaranteed prosperity, would you press that button? Chris...

This city is changing. Different world from when I was a boy. I came over here when I wasn't much taller than you are now. Different world. You know what getting old is? Getting old is slowly losing...

Revived on the Abbey stage on 21 March 2017.Author: Michael WestPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Mar 16, 2017Number of Pages: 104 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: Paperback/DramaISBN-10:...

Epic. In small ways. Jason, a wannabe DJ, is making his way through the streets of Dublin on a chemically enhanced trip, stumbling from one misguided misadventure to another. Somewhere between the...

Dungeness (Plays for Young People)Author: Chris ThompsonPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Aug 10, 2020Number of Pages: 80 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350194778ISBN-13:...

- Do you have to hold your breath? ... Can you do that? - Yeah. Anyone can. - Not me. Can't be doing without breath. I'd hate to drown. I'm a big fan of air ... 400 miles from home, James has started...

You don't want to go to war on this, Tom. I mean, not now. Not after everything. You don't want to lose more than you can afford. Brad Birch (Pinter Commission winner, 2016) takes Ibsen's An Enemy of...

Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man enslaved by plantation owner Sir John Wedderburn and brought to Scotland to serve in his Perthshire mansion...

You know what would really fuck them off? If you went out there and found the least suitable, most inappropriate, most outrageous hunk of a man that this fine city has to offer, and the pair of you...

Europa brings together four European theatres: Birmingham Repertory Theatre (UK), Dresden State Theatre (Germany), Teatr Polski Bydgoszcz (Poland) and Zagreb Youth Theatre (Croatia) - and four...

Do you think I'm a monster? I do sometimes.' There are a few things that we know about Evelyn: we know what she did, we know that we hate her, and we know that she's still out there. Somewhere. She's...

"I believe in this. I believe in here. Me and you." Everyday life, is it nothing but a series of creeping, soul-destroying disillusionments and compromises? This young couple start to think so,...

I bit into your heart and I chewed on it slowly like a connoisseur. I swallowed it. I remember thinking it was an especially small heart and easy to digest. But no matter what I did you wouldn't die...

So, when you have the time and the space, the thoughts start to fill it, you know? Unless you fill it yourself. With a little burn mout. Or a little tune. Errol lost his dad last year. Listening to...