Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
by Mr James Graham
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2017
Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and class against the backdrop...
by Ms Maxine Peake
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: August 18, 2014
I had a constant battle to get where I am today. Scrimping and scraping, people telling me not to do it, I couldn't do it. That my life wouldn't amount to very much. Now I might have had a bit of natural talent but I got here because of pure determination and persistence. Stubbornness you might say....
American Political Plays in the Age of Terrorism
Break of Noon; 7/11; Omnium Gatherum; Columbinus; Why Torture is Wrong, and the People Who Love Them
Language: English
Release Date: April 4, 2019
This powerful anthology brings together reflective and raw plays by American playwrights surrounding the psychic and political boundaries of the many faces and shadows of terrorism.
Allan Havis's introduction addresses a variety of terrorism cases from the last 25 years, examines several theories...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th-century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of stories. Storytelling permeated his art as...
by Bertolt Brecht
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: January 28, 2016
Bertolt Brecht's extraordinary historical novel presents an aspiring scholar's efforts to write an idealized life of Julius Caesar twenty years after his death. But the historian abandons his planned biography, confronted by a baffling range of contradictory views. Was Caesar an opportunist, a permanently...
Script Analysis for Theatre
Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Script Analysis for Theatre: Tools for Interpretation, Collaboration and Production provides theatre students and emerging theatre artists with the tools, skills and a shared language to analyze play scripts, communicate about them, and collaborate with others on stage productions. Based largely on...
Postdramatic Theatre and the Political
International Perspectives on Contemporary Performance
Language: English
Release Date: December 19, 2013
Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance?
The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects...
Thomas Middleton: Four Plays
Women Beware Women, The Changeling, The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2014
This New Mermaids anthology brings together the four most popular and widely studied of Thomas Middleton's plays - Women Beware Women; The Changeling; The Roaring Girl and A Chaste Maid in Cheapside - with a new introduction by William Carroll, examining the plays in the context of early modern theatre,...
by Philip Ridley
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 17, 2017
It's at times like this I'm inspired by The Stupendous Santini. He toured the mid-West during the 1930s, entertaining farmers affected by the Dust Bowl. No one would have remembered him were in not for the fact that during his most famous trick – sword swallowing – he accidentally punctured a...
Getting The Joke
The Art of Stand-up Comedy
Language: English
Release Date: June 6, 2013
An examination of the art of stand-up comedy, its constituent parts and how they work
Considering stand-up comedy to be an art-form deserving greater attention and analysis, Getting the Joke provides an exploration of the work of the stand-up comedian. Beginning with a brief history of the...
James Graham Plays: 2
This House; The Angry Brigade; The Vote; Monster Raving Loony
Language: English
Release Date: December 2, 2016
The second collection of plays from eminent playwright James Graham, bringing together four of his state-of-the-nation plays.
The volume includes the following plays, alongside an introduction by the author:
This House (2012) explores Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through...
by Mr Henry Shields, Jonathan Sayer, Mr Henry Lewis
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2017
I'm really looking forward to robbing this bank!
Mischief Theatre's smash-and-grab hit The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is a fast, fabulous comedy caper and the funniest show in the West End!
Summer 1958. Minneapolis City Bank has been entrusted with a priceless diamond. An escaped convict is dead...
Life Writing
A Writers' and Artists' Companion
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2013
Life Writing: A Writers' & Artists' Companion is an essential guide to writing biography, autobiography and memoir.
PART 1 explores the history and forms of life writing and the challenges and potential pitfalls of the genre.
PART 2 includes tips by bestselling writers: Diana Athill,...
Theatre in Pieces: Politics, Poetics and Interdisciplinary Collaboration
An Anthology of Play Texts 1966 - 2010
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2014
Theatre in Pieces: politics, poetics and interdisciplinary collaboration is an innovative compilation of seven highly acclaimed productions by key practitioners of non-playwright-driven theatre. Each playtext is reproduced in full and accompanied by extensive notes from members of the original producing...