Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
Enquist Plays: 1
The Night of Tribades, Rain Snakes, The Hour of the Lynx, The Image Makers
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
The first collection by Sweden's foremost contemporary playwright
NIGHT OF THE TRIBADES (1975) centres around the triangular relationship between August Strindberg, the actress Marie Caroline David and Siri von Essen. It has been translated into twenty languages including a short run on Broadway....
by Eva O'Connor
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2017
I like you, you know that? I know we've only just met, but you're my favourite abortionist.
Maz and Bricks is a passionate, angry, funny and touching play which tells the story of two young people who meet over the course of a day in Dublin.
Maz is attending a 'Repeal the Eighth' demonstration, while...
The Shakespeare Workbook and Video
A Practical Course for Actors
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or classroom.
It is an easy-to-use text providing practical exercises in specific aspects of Shakespeare's language such as meter, imagery, rhetoric and...
Mercer Plays: 2
Flint, The Bankrupt, An Afternoon at the Festival, Duck Song, The Arcata Promise, Find Me, Huggy Bear
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers
Flint premiered just before the 1970 General Election which was to replace the Labour Government of Harold Wilson. It is driven by the figure of Ossian Flint, a seventy-year old swinging vicar who believes in "crossing...
Mercer Plays: 1
Where the Difference Begins; A Suitable Case for Treatment; The Governor's Lady; On the Eve of Publication; The Cellar and the Almond Tree; Emma's Time; After Haggerty
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
The first volume of stage and TV plays by one of the best British TV writers
Where the Difference Begins, a naturalist play for television, is about the "difference" between thirties deprivation and fifties affluence, between material prosperity and its accompanying spiritual and...
by Sarah Daniels
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
*You are not at liberty to avenge the pornography industry in this country. We have the censorship laws for that.
Masterpieces* opens on three couples having dinner in a restaurant, exchanging sexist jokes. The response is varied: some of them laugh uproariously, some of them uncomfortably,...
Contemporary Plays from Iraq
A Cradle; A Strange Bird on Our Roof; Cartoon Dreams; Ishtar in Baghdad; Me, Torture, and Your Love; Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad; Summer Rain; The Takeover; The Widow
Language: English
Release Date: January 12, 2017
Contemporary Plays from Iraq is a ground-breaking collection of Middle Eastern drama translated into English for the very first time. With works from both established and emerging male and female playwrights, written in country and in exile, this volume offers current Iraqi perspectives on a war and...
by Mr Christopher Shinn
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 21, 2017
Go where there's violence.
Silicon Valley. The future. A rocket launches.
Luke is an aerospace billionaire who can talk to anyone. But God is talking to him. He sets out to change the world. Only violence stands in his way.
Christopher Shinn's gripping play received its world...
Barnes Plays: 2
Red Noses, The Spirit of Man, Nobody Here But Us Chickens, Sunsets and Glories, Bye Bye Columbus
Language: English
Release Date: December 4, 2013
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)
The Spirit of Man is "an ingenious triple-bill exploring Man's need for faith through three short satires based in medieval France, Protectorate England and nineteenth-century...
Barnes Plays: 3
Clap Hands; Heaven's Blessings; Revolutionary Witness
Language: English
Release Date: December 17, 2013
A selection of plays by "one of the most original and biting comic writers working in Britain" (The Times)
Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie is a riotous, scabrous comedy concerning a demonic figure, a destroyer and giver of life, who is always trying to jump, with both feet into his...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
A haunting and brutally funny story of heroism and human values
In the bloody aftermath of the Wars of the Roses, Captain John Mallory leads a band of renegades across a war-torn landscape on a breathtaking quest in search of a dream - a dream of home. Dreaming premiered at the Royal Exchange...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 17, 2014
Set in medieval Italy during a crisis in the Church, Sunsets and Glories is "a work of the highest and most thrilling theatrical energy" (Independent on Sunday)
Sunsets and Glories is set in the late thirteenth-century Italy where power struggles between Church and State inspire such...
by Peter Barnes
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: July 10, 2014
An RSC commission to commemorate the first celebration of Shakespeare's life and works
A mischievous satire on the foundation of the Shakespeare industry: In 1769, when David Garrick staged the first theatre festival to celebrate the life of Stratford's most famous son, little did he realise...
Page Plays: 1
Tissue; Salonika; Real Estate; Golden Girls
Language: English
Release Date: May 29, 2014
"Louise Page's intimate, emotional dramas open up vast areas of feeling beneath the surface of ordinary lives" (Independent)
Tissue: "The tissue of the title is a left breast and lymph node removed during Sally Bacon's mastectomy...Louise Page catalogues Sally's changing attitudes...