Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
The Play That Goes Wrong
3rd Edition
Language: English
Release Date: April 3, 2015
Good evening. I'm Inspector Carter. Take my case. This must be Charles Haversham! I'm sorry, this must've given you all a damn shock.
After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s...
by Martin White
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2014
This 'lamentable and true tragedy', as it is announced on its title
page, dramatises a domestic murder of the sort that nowadays
scandalises and thrills the readers of tabloid newspapers. Although the
title advertises 'the great malice and dissimulation of a wicked woman'
and her 'unsatiable desire...
The Theatre of Tom Murphy
Playwright Adventurer
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2017
Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy, the 2012-13 staging of three of his major plays by the Druid Theatre Company, served to underline his...
The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy
The Al-Hamlet Summit; Richard III, an Arab Tragedy; The Speaker’s Progress
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the world's leading contemporary dramatists. His adaptations of Shakespeare, performed around the world, have won many awards and met with widespread acclaim on four continents.
This volume brings together for the first time three of Al Bassam's adaptations of Shakespearean...
First World War Plays
Night Watches, Mine Eyes Have Seen, Tunnel Trench, Post Mortem, Oh What A Lovely War, The Accrington Pals, Sea and Land and Sky
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2014
The First World War (1914–1918) marked a turning point in modern history and culture and its literary legacy is vast: poetry, fiction and memoirs abound. But the drama of the period is rarely recognised, with only a handful of plays commonly associated with the war.
First World War Plays...
James Graham Plays: 1
A History of Falling Things, Tory Boyz, The Man, The Whisky Taster, Sons of York
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2013
This collection brings together four of Graham's most successful and entertaining plays, each representing a relationship with a theatre with which he has worked and introduced by the author. One of the plays, Sons of York, has never before been published, but earned James Graham a nomination for...
National Theatre Connections 2017
Three; #YOLO; Fomo; Status Update; Musical Differences; Extremism; The School Film; Zero for the Young Dudes!; The Snow Dragons; The Monstrum
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2017
Drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology features work by some of the most exciting and established contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the plays collected offer young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging...
by Jez Bond, Mark Cameron
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
There will come a point in every witch's life where the scales are tipped so far to one side that the world, nature, humanity - whatever you want to call it - finally fights back. The demons are expelled and we return to the natural state.
Sleeping Beauty is the fairytale of the beautiful princess...
by Simon Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2019
Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as31 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New Year's Eve 2015/16 in Manchester city centre. Published in the...
by Mr Martin McDonagh
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2014
This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary, a detailed commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, as well a list of suggested reading and questions for further study...
Cracking Shakespeare
A Hands-on Guide for Actors and Directors + Video
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2015
Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare's language, offering hands-on techniques for drama students, young actors and directors who are intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare's plays.
For some artists approaching Shakespeare, the ability...
by Mark Taylor-Batty
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
The plays of the late Nobel laureate Harold Pinter have formed part of the canon of world theatre since the 1960s. Frequently revived on the professional stage, and studied on almost every Theatre Studies course, his importance and influence is hard to overestimate. This Critical Companion offers...
by John Arden, Margaretta D'Arcy
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
This collection brings together some of the best and most frequently performed plays by John Arden and Margaretta D'Arcy whose collaboration stems from the political years of the Sixties
The Business of Good Government is a nativity play which develops a sense of a disappearing community; Ars...
Voice and the Young Actor
A workbook and DVD
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2015
"Many high school theatre teachers do not have access to intensive voice instruction. Rena's book will fill that void. It is instructive, concise, easy to understand, and most importantly for the high school student, fun. High school teachers will find the book an invaluable voice and acting...