Methuen Drama

Twelve years ago, from the mouth of a great sacrifice, a child was born. And they called her Autumn. Isaac returns to his family home with a chance to atone for the terrible mistake that claimed his...

Bassanio has been murdered and, under suspicion, Gratiano is forced to revisit his Fascist past. He was never the hero ? just a minor character, the plucky comic relief ? but he never thought he...

Grenfell: System Failure asks further vital questions raised by the Grenfell Tower Inquiry since the critically acclaimed 2021 play Grenfell: Value Engineering. Based entirely on the words of those...

Last night I woke up and found that I was not at home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. And then I wasn't sure. Maybe they were my clothes, and I was someone else. In an unnamed American city,...

I know you hey. You're the one that's always in the back of the library. Like a little library gremlin. Eating up knowledge. And Haribo... It's a new term at college and, for most of the Sixth Form...

?and beneath our feet. Got all our blood inside it hasn't it? All that time. Belongs to us.?On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky and Anna try to hold their family together after the...

If you're concerned, just talk to a member of our staff or, alternatively, swing your legs over the edge of the bed and walk out, remembering to pull the camera from your bum before leaving the...

Hakawati /hak?'w??ti/. Noun: Storyteller. From the Arabic terms 'hekaye' meaning story and 'haki' meaning to talk. A tyrant revenges his wife's infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new...

Hamlet (Modern Plays)Author: William ShakespearePublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Sep 01, 2022Number of Pages: 144 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350354597ISBN-13:...

Hamlet: Who's There is a tightly written highly theatrical adaptation of Shakespeare's great play. Reimagining the action to take place over the course of one night, the play can be produced to last...

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...

We're supposed to be having a party. It's s'posed to be fun. This is my house, and when I say everybody have fun, then everybody have fun. Thatcher's Britain - Brixton, 1981. As tensions mount on the...

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...

I am getting nearer to something. The answer to the question. Who am I? A woman who leaves her husband very suddenly for an old lover and heads to a cottage in Kerry? I needed someone strong. Someone...

Hedda Gabler is an intelligent and ambitious woman, trapped in a stifling, bourgeois, 19th-century marriage in which she has no means of finding personal fulfillment. Having been too frightened of...

First published as Heisenberg, 2015--Title page verso.Author: Simon StephensPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Oct 02, 2017Number of Pages: 64 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding:...

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...

These two electric pieces of work originated from Brixton House's Housemates Festival in summer 2023, back to grace the stage for Housemates Returns in 2024. Is Dat U Yh? by dkfash: A time where...

Grieving is weird and expensive.Jamie can't swim. Fuelled by guilt and a need to mend her broken family, at 30 years old, she's taking on her biggest fear -- the ocean.With the help of a chipper swim...

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...