Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 27, 2014
"This is a profound and tragic vision of humanity at its bare, forked basics" (Patrick Marmion, Evening Standard)
The Censor is "a gripping brief encounter between a pornographic film actress and the man with the licensing scissors. A moving parable of the critic and artist as a healing and finally tragic, love story." (Michael Coveney, Daily Mail)
by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 30, 2013
A brand new comedy by the writer of the hit play Stitching, published to tie in with the Royal Court's Christmas production from November 2002
Constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they can finish their Christmas eve shift; telling the old couple at No. 58 some terrible...
by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
A two-play edition featuring Anthony Neilson's companion plays, The Wonderful World of Dissocia (2004) and Realism (2006), both produced by the National Theatre of Scotland.
Produced originally for the 2004 Edinburgh International Festival, The Wonderful World of Dissocia wowed critics and...
by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2014
'Ladies and gentlemen, as some of you may know, my name is Edward Gant: prodigy, soldier, traveller, poet - but always and ever a showman.'
In 1881, the famed and enigmatic impresario Mr Edward Gant presented his renowned travelling show for the final time. The opiate-addicted actor manager...
Neilson Plays:1
Normal; Penetrator; Year of the Family; Night Before Christmas; Censor
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
Anthony Neilson's plays collected in one volume
Includes the plays: Normal "a tight, powerful, three-hander...achieved with a sense of discipline and thematic energy" (Guardian), Penetrator "This is one of the blackest, funniest and most shocking comedy dramas you will ever see"...
Neilson Plays: 2
Edward Gant's Amazing Feats of Loneliness!; The Lying Kind; The Wonderful World of Dissocia; Realism
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
In the 1990s playwright Anthony Neilson garnered a reputation for hard-hitting, morally disturbing plays that saw him labelled as one of the 'In Yer Face' dramatists who emerged from that decade.
This second volume of plays showcases the comic, surreal and gloriously off-kilter side of his...
by Mr Anthony Neilson
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Lisa Jones is on a journey. It's a colourful and exciting off-kilter trip in search of one lost hour that has tipped the balance of her life. The inhabitants of the wonderful world she finds herself in - Dissocia - are a curious blend of the funny, the friendly and the brutal.
Produced originally...
Contemporary Scottish Plays
Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
To paraphrase Alistair Beaton's Caledonia - the first play in this collection - 'The English have anthologies, the Spanish have anthologies, the French have anthologies . . . why should not Scotland have its anthology?'
Scotland is entering a crucial period in its history, where its identity...
Anthony Neilson Plays: 3
Relocated; Get Santa!; Narrative; Unreachable; The Prudes
Language: English
Release Date: December 23, 2018
Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having worked with companies such as The Royal Court, The RSC and...
Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique
A Workbook with Video for Directors, Teachers and Actors
Language: English
Release Date: September 7, 2017
Directing with the Michael Chekhov Technique explores the collaborative process between a play's director and the entire production team, making the journey of a production process cohesive using the Michael Chekhov Technique.
No other technique provides the tools for both actor and director...
by Ms Hattie Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 16, 2017
I can still hear them, I hear them in my head all the time.
Those songs I sang. But I don't sing them anymore.
Alfie keeps hiding Beth's gardening gloves. She's got lots to do and it's just not funny anymore. Why won't he realise that gardening is helping her forget everything? Why can't he...
by Ms Hattie Naylor
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: December 24, 2013
This is all we are. This is all sex is. The attempted obliteration of the self. That's why it's so brutal. All there is the plane of nature. It was what was before and will always be, and our complete annihilation, this leisurely murdered world, is after all, what is.
Bluebeard invites you...
by F.M. Dostoevsky
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
The film script for a major film from Channel Four Films and Canal+ Image International, from director Karoly Makk and producer Marc Vlessing. Starring Michael Gambon, Jodhi May, Polly Walker, Dominic West and Luise Rainer.
Dostoevsky, impoverished by gambling debts and desperate, makes a Faustian...
by Philip Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2016
A doorway to a new future is ready to open. We are the hinge of that moment. We will let the door swing wide.
On a beautiful spring evening – when both moons are full – two teenagers vow eternal love. It is a moment that will have cataclysmic consequences. Not just for them, but for the...