Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol
Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2013
Perfect for pupils aged 11+, this play edition of Dicken's classic tale uses John Mortimer's much-loved dramatisation first produced by the RSC in 1994. It features an extensive section of classroom activities created by leading national experts in using Drama within English, Paul Bunyan and Ruth...
National Theatre Connections Monologues
Speeches for Young Actors
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2016
For the first time, there is an anthology of monologues for young people available, taken from plays commissioned as part of the National Theatre Connections over the past 20 years.
Always drawing together the work of 10 leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers –...
by Simon Stephens
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2019
This abridged edition is designed for schools and has been adapted for 10 actors playing all of the roles. With a running time of just 90 minutes it is suitable for performance in non-theatre spaces, with minimal technical requirements.
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time brings...
by Thomas Kyd, Andrew Gurr
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 27, 2014
The first fully-fledged example of a revenge tragedy, the genre that became so influential in later Elizabethan and Jacobean drama, The Spanish Tragedy (1589) occupies a very special place in the history of English Renaissance drama. Hieronimo, Knight-Marshal of Spain during its war with Portugal,...
by Michael Boyd, Bryan Brown, Paul Carr
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: August 29, 2013
Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples,...
Ridley Plays 1
The Pitchfork Disney; The Fastest Clock in the Universe; Ghost from a Perfect Place
Language: English
Release Date: October 16, 2013
This volume contains Ridley's first three plays, which heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. They are seminal works in the development of the 'in yer face' theatre that emerged in Britain during the mid-1990s.
The three plays here all manifest...
by Ms Sabrina Mahfouz
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2016
Respect women, respect girls. Respect yourselves. Remember you are everyone who's gone before you and you are nobody that has ever been, so make it count, make it special, make a difference, make people listen, love the women who have loved you and watch us make the world move to a better place.
For...
by Michelene Wandor
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2015
The Art of Writing Drama is an indispensable textbook for wherever writing for the stage is taught, but also serves as a foundational book for any student taking courses in performance media - radio, television and film.
Coupling theory with practice, the book opens with a survey of the current...
Beckett's Creatures
Art of Failure after the Holocaust
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
In the shadow of the Holocaust, Samuel Beckett captures humanity in ruins through his debased beings and a decomposing mode of writing that strives to 'fail better'. But what might it mean to be a 'creature' or 'creaturely' in Beckett's world? In the first full-length study of the concept of the creature...
National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People
Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me; Journey to X; Little Foot; Prince of Denmark; Socialism is Great; The Grandfathers; Alice by Heart; Generation Next; So You Think You’re a Superhero?; The Ritual
Language: English
Release Date: July 17, 2014
This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is...
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Blackly humorous drama of Einstein's tortured conscience
Why do you think I've been locked in this room? I've been grieving for a wife, a sister, three hundred thousand Japanese civilians, the presence of a universe gone mad, and the absence of a theory to explain it.
Albert Einstein...
Tim Price Plays: 1
For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I'm With the Band; Protest Song; Under the Sofa
Language: English
Release Date: November 5, 2014
Introduced by the author, this is the first collection of Tim Price's plays. The winner of the 2013 James Tait Black Prize for Drama, Tim Price's work includes For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I'm With the Band; Protest Song and Under the Sofa (published here for...
Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies
New Critical Essays
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Published in association with the seminar series of the same name held by the University of Oxford, Samuel Beckett: Debts and Legacies presents the best new scholarship addressing the sources, development and ongoing influence of Samuel Beckett's work. Edited by convenors Dr Peter Fifield and Dr David...
Mullarkey Plays: 1
Single Sex; Tourism; Cannibals; The Wolf From the Door; Each Slow Dusk
Language: English
Release Date: September 20, 2018
A remarkable writer – an original fresh voice, with a sharp political edge
(Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director the Royal Court Theatre).
British writer Rory Mullarkey is the winner of the Harold Pinter Commission, the James Tait Black Prize for Drama and the George Devine Award for most...