Books list 37 from Methuen Drama imprint

Theatre of Real People

Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbel am Ufer and Beyond

by Ulrike Garde, Meg Mumford
Language: English
Release Date: May 19, 2016

Theatre of Real People offers fresh perspectives on the current fascination with putting people on stage who present aspects of their own lives and who are not usually trained actors. After providing a history of this mode of performance, and theoretical frameworks for its analysis, the book focuses...

The Late Work of Sam Shepard

by Shannon Blake Skelton
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016

Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade's 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and screenplays until his death in 2017. Like Samuel Beckett and Tennessee Williams in their autumnal years,...

The Sugar-Coated Bullets of the Bourgeoisie

The Formation of Modern China

by Mr Anders Lustgarten
Language: English
Release Date: June 15, 2016

Our China is now the worst of all worlds. Communist politics controlled by greedy capitalists, raw capitalist economics controlled by corrupt Communists. Because they're all the same people! At least under me, the people knew what they were tightening their belts for. Anders Lustgarten's epic...

Coward Plays: 4

Blithe Spirit; Present Laughter; This Happy Breed; Tonight at 8.30 (ii)

by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: November 12, 2013

Volume Four of Noël Coward's plays contains a selection of Coward's plays from the thirties and forties which includes Blithe Spirit, a comedy that centres around the spirit medium Madame Arcati. The play that mocks sudden death was produced at precisely the moment when bombs were bringing it to...

Actors and Performers Yearbook 2016

Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio

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Language: English
Release Date: December 3, 2015

Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further...

Captain Amazing

by Mr Alistair McDowall
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014

My dad is a superhero. No one else knows 'cos it has to stay a secret. Alistair McDowall's play is a funny and poignant one-man show that thrusts us into the life of Britain's only part-time superhero. Struggling to balance his family responsibilities and more conventional job with defeating...

Documenting Performance

The Context and Processes of Digital Curation and Archiving

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Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017

Performance in the digital age has undergone a radical shift in which a once ephemeral art form can now be relived, replayed and repeated. Until now, much scholarship has been devoted to the nature of live performance in the digital age; Documenting Performance is the first book to provide a collection...

Joan's Book

The Autobiography of Joan Littlewood

by Joan Littlewood
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016

'Once upon a time, the London theatre was a charming mirror held up to cosiness. Then came Joan Littlewood, smashing the glass, blasting the walls, letting the wind of life blow in a rough, but ready, world. Today, we remember this irresistible force with love and gratitude.' (Peter Brook) Along...

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

by Ms Andrea Dunbar
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2017

Do you think it would be better if you and me got ourselves steady boyfriends? Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling each of them think they control. Andrea...

In Fidelity

by Rob Drummond
Language: English
Release Date: October 14, 2016

I told her that it wouldn't be appropriate for us to meet in person. She asked me why not. I told her the truth. Because I was extremely attracted to her and didn't want to court the destruction of my marriage. She said, your wife never needs to know. It will just be a little adventure. Nothing even...

Coward Plays: Nine

Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered; Long Island Sound; Volcano; Age Cannot Wither; Design For Rehearsing

by Noël Coward
Language: English
Release Date: February 22, 2018

Coward Plays: 9 offers up a fascinating selection of Noël Coward's lesser-known works. Salute to the Brave/Time Remembered (1940) follows Leila Heseldyne after she has fled to America, leaving a war-torn Britain and her husband behind; Long Island Sound(1947) sees a writer coerced into a riotous...

First Light

by Mr Mark Hayhurst
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2016

Now. Tonight. Before we're sent back to the front. Take every bit of money you got. Ditch everything else. July 1916. Albert Ingham and Alfred Longshaw are crouched in a muddy, rat-infested trench in France. These sharp and funny young soldiers from a battalion of the Manchester Pals are about...

Klippies

by Ms Jessica Siân
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2015

I slip into Thandi's bed in the night. I crack her ribs and climb deep inside her chest So I never have to leave. Johannesburg. 2014. Summer. Yolandi is listening to rap-rave music and helping her brother bust parts from her teacher's car. Thandi is swotting for her exams and keeping...

You'll Have Had Your Hole

by Irvine Welsh
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014

A play from the author of Trainspotting Within the sound-proofed walls of a disused recording studio, a score is being settled. Two inner city low-lifes take the law into their own hands to satisfy their craving for fun, fear and a freakish sense of justice. "You'll Have Had Your Hole"...