Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
by Caryl Churchill
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018
Marlene thinks the eighties are going to be stupendous. Her sister Joyce has her doubts. Her daughter Angie is just frightened.
Since its premiere in 1982, Top Girls has become a seminal play of the modern theatre. Set during a period of British politics dominated by the presence of the newly...
Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009
Voices, Documents, New Interpretations
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2013
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five...
by DC Moore
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 20, 2012
Based on the motion picture Humpday (written & directed in 2009 by Lynn Shelton), Straight is a razor-sharp new comedy from acclaimed writer D. C. Moore about male friendship, sexuality and how the two things can be blurred more easily than one might think . . .
Lewis and Waldorf were inseparable...
Acting Stanislavski
A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy
Language: English
Release Date: February 13, 2014
Stanislavski was the first to outline a systematic approach for using our experience, imagination and observation to create truthful acting. 150 years after his birth, his approach is more widely embraced and taught throughout the world – but is still often rejected, misunderstood and misapplied.
In...
Aristophanes Plays: 2
Wasps; Clouds; Birds; Festival Time; Frogs
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series
Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide...
Aristophanes Plays: 1
Acharnians; Knights; Peace; Lysistrata
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series
Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society for which he wrote.
Brecht Plays 8
The Antigone of Sophocles; The Days of the Commune; Turandot or the Whitewasher's Congress
Language: English
Release Date: April 23, 2015
The latest volume in Methuen's Collected Brecht includes two plays previously untranslated into English
Volume 8 of Brecht's collected plays contains his last completed plays, from the eight years between his return from America to Europe after the war and his death in 1956. Brecht's ANTIGONE...
McDonagh Plays: 1
The Beauty Queen of Leenane; A Skull in Connemara; The Lonesome West
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Martin McDonagh's plays have been produced in Galway, Dublin, London and New York. They have created excitement and have won numerous awards. In individual editions the plays have been among Methuen's most popular sellers. 'Martin McDonagh's The Leenane Trilogy, one of the great events of the contemporary...
by Kelly McEvenue
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
This practical book with illustrations links Alexander technique to acting, dancing and singing by the trainer of performers on The Lion King
The Alexander Technique is a method of physical relaxation that reduces tension and strain throughout the body. It promotes a beneficial use of movement...
by Rebecca Wotzko, Mr David Cameron, Professor Michael Anderson
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2017
Drama and Digital Arts Cultures is a critical guide to the new forms of playful exploration, co-creativity, and improvised performance made possible by digital networked media. Drawing on examples from games, education, online media, technology-enabled performance and the creative industries, the...
The Story of Drama
Tragedy, Comedy and Sacrifice from the Greeks to the Present
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 2016
Tracing the history of tragedy and comedy from their earliest beginnings to the present, this book offers readers an exceptional study of the development of both genres, grounded in analysis of landmark plays and their context. It argues that sacrifice is central to both genres, and demonstrates how...
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015
Art, Modernity and the National Stage
Language: English
Release Date: October 20, 2016
Verse Drama in England, 1900-2015 provides a critical and historical exploration of a tradition of modern dramatic creativity that has received very little scholarly attention. Exploring the emergence of a distinctly modern verse drama at the turn of the century and its development into the twenty-first,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Beckett's relationship with British theatre is complex and underexplored, yet his impact has been immense. Uniquely placing performance history at the centre of its analysis, this volume examines Samuel Beckett's drama as it has been staged in Great Britain, bringing to light a wide range of untold...
by Trish McTighe, Dr David Tucker
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
This is the first full-length study to focus on the staging of Samuel Beckett's drama in Ireland and Northern Ireland.
Beckett's relationship with his native land was a complex one, but the importance of his drama as a creative force both historically and in contemporary practice in Ireland...