Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
by Richard Dormer
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 20, 2013
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 everything that you're familiar with.
Man has just set foot on the moon. The streets of Brooklyn...
by Christopher Marlowe
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2014
Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. Kept off the stage for almost three hundred...
by Nicholas Pierpan
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
He wants me to fuck about with paper clips in some office with a smile on my face, fuck him . . . but there's just one thing I've got to take care of first. I've got to do something to make this right.
Four years on from the collapse of the Lehman Brothers and still we find ourselves in crisis....
Coward Plays: 1
Hay Fever; The Vortex; Fallen Angels; Easy Virtue
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
This first volume in the Coward Collection contains four plays written within a two year period when Coward
and the century were still in their 20s. The volume is introduced by Sheridan Morley,
Coward's first biographer.
Hay Fever, a comedy of bad
manners, concerns a weekend with friends of...
Coward Plays: 6
Semi-Monde; Point Valaine; South Sea Bubble; Nude With Violin
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2013
Philip Hoare, in his biography of Coward described Semi-Monde as his "most daring play to date. In a chic Parisian hotel, a series of sexual
pairings take place through rendezvous, arguments, infidelities and
reconciliations: sexual deviance is undisguised...set in the bisexual
1920s, the play...
Williams Plays: 2
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads; Clubland; The Gift
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Second collection of plays by the award-winning young British playwright
Sing Yer Heart Out for the Lads: Tensions erupt in a South London pub as England lose against Germany at football
Clubland: Ben is married to Denise but on the pull, Kenny's looking for someone who's "right",...
Williams Plays: 4
Sucker Punch; Category B; Joe Guy; Baby Girl; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
'[Williams's] plays have brought the experience of black urban youth onto the stage' Observer
Sucker Punch: 'As usual with Williams, the dialogue is crisp and bespoke: motives are mixed, nobody is a hero, nothing is just black and white.' The Times
Joe Guy: 'Williams's dialogue ricochets...
by Kefi Chadwick
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2016
They don't care about the truth or changing anything. They just want to discredit us. Bury us under a load of insinuation and then shut us up by paying us off. I can't bear to bleed out my pain and it not mean anything.
When Mel meets Dave at a protest, she believes she has met her kindred...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2014
Set in modern-day Jamaica, Kingston 14 follows the story of James, a black British police officer, who is sent to Kingston to investigate the murder of an English tourist in a local hotel. Tied to Jamaica by his father who was born there, James struggles to lead a proper investigation when gang leader,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 13, 2014
Published in 1575 and acted at Christ's College, Cambridge, probably as early as King Edward VI's reign, the drama of Grandma Gurton and her lost sewing needle, which is finally retrieved from the bottom of her servant Hodge's breeches, is an outstanding example of mid-Tudor comedy. Although a university...
Contemporary Welsh Plays
Tonypandemonium, The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Gardening: For the Unfulfilled and Alienated, Llwyth (in Welsh), Parallel Lines, Bruised
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Recent years have seen an explosion of new Welsh writing for the stage. With the advent of Theatr Genedlaethol Cymru in 2003 and the launch of National Theatre Wales in 2009, there has been a tectonic shift in Welsh theatre and its perception.
Wales has famously celebrated its poets and novelists,...
by Mr Roy Williams
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Right, you know the rules, watch the low blows, if it's a knock-down no messing about, go straight to your corner, and don't come out till called for, are we clear? Touch gloves, let's go.
In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black British champ or Uncle Tom? In the blue corner: Troy Augustus...
by John O'Donovan
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
A town a ten thousand people. What parade do we get? I'm a parade. I'm a one-man parade.
Halloween. A small town in the west of Ireland. There's a party to get to and Mikey and Casey have everything they need . . . Booze. Cash. Drugs. Each other.
The only problem is they're stuck. Stuck...
by Arnold Wesker
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: June 2, 2011
The kettle boils in 1936 as the fascists are marching. Tea is brewed in 1946, with disillusion in the air at the end of the war. Twenty years on, in 1956, as rumours spread of Hungarian revolution, the cup is empty.
Sarah Khan, an East End Jewish mother, is a feisty political fighter and a...