Methuen Drama

A team. A team of wit? A team of players. A bunch of mates coming the gither to huv a kick aboot. Wits new? Garry's turned 50 but doesn't feel like celebrating. Exhausted from years spent wrapped in...

This new Student Edition, featuring the classic John Willett translation of the play, includes an introduction by Katherine Hollander, which explores the following: * Contexts (Thirty Years War,...

Move (Modern Plays)Author: Julia TaudevinPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: 14-Sep-21Number of Pages: 48 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350291900ISBN-13: 9781350291904

Mum (Modern Plays)Author: Morgan Lloyd MalcolmPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Nov 11, 2021Number of Pages: 72 pagesLanguage: EnglishBinding: PaperbackISBN-10: 1350268577ISBN-13:...

Tiffany's mum got hit by a Birdseye truck on the M25. There's family to call and a coffin to order, but first she has to talk to her dad ?and for some reason that's the toughest thing on her to-do...

The music industries hinge on entrepreneurship. The recent, rapid convergence of media and the parallel ongoing evolution of music businesses have again seen the focus shift to independent companies...

Jones and Davis are fighting. There's a skeleton in the well. There's more to being Welsh than having the accent, isn't there? Written for a single performer, Tara Robinson and Steffan Donnelly's My...

Seriously William, you're eighteen and you're gay, for Christ's sake. You're meant to swim against the tide. A proper gap year is all about traveling. Seeing the world. Popping your cherry. This is...

He suddenly looks different, less bent, less old, less broken, what a strange man. Is there some magic here? Is he a wizard? Old man . . . No that's not right. Telemachus' father left long ago to...

Written specifically for GCSE students by academics in the field, the Methuen Drama GCSE Student Editions provide in-depth explanatory material alongside the play texts frequently studied at Key...

This is just me joining the family business exposing massive global injustice. Latinx Women from South London take centre stage and dare you to call them invisible. Vogue balls. When four different...

National Identity and the British Musical: From Blood Brothers to Cinderella examines the myths associated with national identity which are reproduced by the British musical and asks why the genre...

It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National...

New Monologues for Men features forty monologues from plays published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama recently. The monologues are selected by the editor, Geoffrey Colman, on account of their suitability...

If you're a wheelchair-user, you've got a simple choice: either you suck sweets in a corner and watch television all day or you try to change the world around you. There ain't gonna be no magic pill...

This collection brings together three of Coward's most important screenplays - In Which We Serve (1942), Brief Encounter (1945) and The Astonished Heart (1950). The collection features the shooting...

?As finely worked as a Swiss watch and as funny as the human condition permits..the zigzag brilliance of the text as the clunky lines of the farce-within-a-farce rub against the sharp dialogue of...

If we can just get through the play once tonight for doors and sardines. That's what it's all about. Doors and sardines. Getting on - getting off...that's farce. That's the theatre. That's life...

It's three o'clock when the first ambulance arrives. An old Polish man who can't breathe properly. I see the paramedics try to get him on the stretcher, but he collapses on them. Sudden heart failure...

Matthew, I don't give a fuck who's Irish and who's not. I'm just thinking about what's best for your career. And that's how themmuns in London'll see you. Calling yourself British just embarrasses...

If I don't want to tell anyone, it's up to me, right? Lucy knows James has avoided the battle. Mark knows Amanda has fought for her life. But speaking the truth could bring everything crashing down...

?Its brilliance lies in the way Shinn marries ideological debate to psychological complexity, shedding light, laser-bright and precise, on the way in which political discourse informs and shapes...

A searing result of a groundbreaking and form-defying collaboration between Simon Stephens and the choreographer and movement director Imogen Knight.Author: Simon StephensPublisher: Methuen...

Nw Trilogy: Dance Floor; Life Of Riley; Waking/Walking (Modern Plays)Author: Roy Williams|Suhayla El-Bushra|Moira BuffiniPublisher: Methuen DramaPublication Date: Oct 18, 2021Number of Pages: 112...

One man's dream of the NHSFrom campaigning at the coalfield to leading the battle to create the NHS, Aneurin 'Nye' Bevan is often referred to as the politician with greatest influence on our country...

You do not feel pain. You do not feel hunger. Now get out there and dance as though you love this island. When a river breaks its banks one night resulting in a massive flood, one medium-sized...

There's always a pause, between the inhale and the first word. The room is silent. Butterflies collide. The words begin to rise up inside of you; Metaphors and similes contort like question marks...

The women you've seen play today, we are more than football players, more than athletes and sportspeople of the very highest degree. We are heroines or heroes - or however you wanna say it ?and we...

Family means everything you want it to mean. What a transformative thing it can be to take care of someone else, completely. How it rearranges you. How you might yearn to do it. How you will...

One minute we had customers, the next minute there was no-one. In a lost village, blurred by redrawn borders, hidden under a crumb on the map, Bear Ridge Stores still stands. After a hundred years,...