Methuen Drama

People always think a woman who thinks for herself, who speaks her mind is dangerous. So I didn't talk about my dreams or what was in my heart. And I was scared. Scared to let you follow your dreams...

Imagine a world where imagination is forbidden. Coketown is such a place. Thomas Gradgrind will not permit fanciful thoughts in his school or his home. But what effect will this policy have on his...

What you haven't realised is that I sew to aid my thought processes. Look ?needle ?stab ?stitch ?thought. Needle ?stab ?stitch ?thought. So next time you see a woman demurely sewing a sampler, be...

This HighTide production of Harrogate was revived at the Royal Court Theatre, London, on 20 October 2016 before embarking on a UK Tour with the touring network house. Harrogate premiered at HighTide...

A housing crisis, a hung D?l and an unlikely alliance. Haughey|Gregory follows the deal made between Tony Gregory and Charles Haughey in 1982, when Gregory took a surprise D?l seat - and suddenly...

All the rooms reek of lavender and rose petals. There's something dead about it. Like flowers the day after a ball. Returning to her home town in the house of her dreams, her husband with a new job...

Sometimes we don't live, we cope. I have coped, not lived, for a long time. So have you I think. A passionate love story set between London and Cyprus. Alexandra, a refugee from the Turkish invasion...

How To Build A Wax Figure (Modern Plays)Author: Isabella WaldronPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Jul 12, 2022Number of Pages: 56 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10:...

Human Nurture (Modern Plays)Author: Ryan Calais CameronPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Apr 08, 2022Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350339571ISBN-13:...

Sometimes it takes a long time to sound like yourself (Miles Davis) Two men meet at a funeral. Gil knew the deceased. Benny did not. Before long their families are close. Soon they'll be singing the...

1938. Hampstead, London. Sigmund Freud has fled Nazi-occupied Austria and settled in leafy Swiss Cottage. At eighty-two-years-old, he aims to spend his final days in peace. However, when Salvador...

A tough inner-city school, proud of its inclusivity, suddenly explodes in a rapidly escalating culture war. Sex secrets, hip-hop and hope fight for centre stage in a vibrant, loud and proud, real...

I am Yusuf and This Is My Brother is a powerful, poetic exploration of history, memory and different forms of love. 'Before it happened I didn't know those people existed. Now I'm not certain that we...

Nothing like being attacked by a slug then held captive by a dragon to put you off your jelly and ice-cream. Ethan, William and Fiona are about as different as three almost-teens can be. The only...

I SEE YOU (English) NGIYAKUBONA (Zulu) EK SIEN JOU (Afrikaans) NDIYAKUBONA (Xhosa) I don't need your sorries white boy, yes. You heard right. You know white people think we are the same? We both look...

An Englishman, a Northern Irishman, a Scotsman and a Welshman walked into a recording studio and created The Union. Commercially successful and critically acclaimed, the pioneering indie rock band is...

Today's the day, right? That's what you said. What you prophesized. Today's the day we finish the job? We're all in the business of telling stories. Building narratives. Constructing meaning. To keep...

THISISPOPBABY & The Abbey Theatre present If These Wigs Could Talk by Panti Bliss If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and...

A play about the sexual experiences of young adults in a world of information overload and weaponised languageAuthor: Lucy DanserPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: May 25, 2022Number of Pages:...

Sometimes you surprise people into being better than they are. Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London as a way to unite their community. But not...

?You name something, you change what it is, who it belongs to People do it everywhere they go: new names Not one of them even knows what we called this island before they came? Kazumi is hunting a...

I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true. Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. James Graham's ruthless,...

Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future. A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution. A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework...

What is gonna happen, when we can't take it anymore? Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with. You think you know her, but maybe you...

Isla (Modern Plays)Author: Tim PricePublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Nov 29, 2021Number of Pages: 88 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350280429ISBN-13: 9781350280427

Kate, Sam and Pete are stuck. The town they live in doesn't have much going on. But they don't really care about that when they've got cheap cider and their whole lives ahead of them. And they're...

What will happen in England after we have won this war? Bunting! Bunting everywhere! After the bunting has been taken down. They will never take down our bunting! July 1940. After an aerial dog...

What about people who can't make friends? Or who don't laugh and are full of no love? They're the real disabilities. I think. Agnes and her daughter Kelly have walked the same stretch of Skegness...

A Farnham Maltings and Orange Tree Theatre co-production--Prefatory matter.Author: Zoe CooperPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Sep 08, 2016Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...