Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
McDowall Plays: 1
Brilliant Adventures; Captain Amazing; Talk Show; Pomona
Language: English
Release Date: June 14, 2016
This is the first collection from groundbreaking playwright Alistair McDowall*,* "an exceptionally talented and fast-rising writer. Still only in his twenties, this writer is surely going places. Whatever he dreams up next, his name will almost certainly be in lights at the Royal Court soon,...
The Actor’s Workbook
A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising + Video
Language: English
Release Date: May 5, 2016
The Actor's Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting.
The book presents a system of exercises which will develop core acting skills, offers techniques...
by Ms Shelagh Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
In The Memory of Water (winner of the 2000 Laurence Olivier Award for Best Comedy), three sisters meet on the eve of their mother's funeral. As the conflicts of the past converge, everyday lies and tensions reveal the particular patterns and strains of family relationships. '"Combines a flair...
by Ms Shelagh Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
Shelagh Stephenson's daring and thoughtful new play
1799 - On the eve of a new century, the house buzzes with scientific experiments, furtive romance and farcical amateur dramatics. 1999 - In a world of scientific chaos, cloning and genetic engineering, the cellar of the same house reveals...
by Ms Shelagh Stephenson
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 13, 2014
After a sell-out run earlier this year, this topical and powerful play returns to Soho Theatre.
A programme text edition published in conjunction with The Synergy
Theatre Project in association with The Forgiveness Project and Soho
Theatre, The Long Road runs from 10 - 29 November 2008.
'Mary...
by John Webster
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2014
A major revision of this classic revenge tragedy. The comprehensive introduction covers recent developments in criticism and key theatre productions, as well as relating the play to other early modern tragedies. The edition gives students and teachers a reliable, annotated text and a stimulating overview...
by Anton Chekhov, David Hare
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: February 3, 2014
This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes
This is a drama of a Russian landowner's half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plummets fast into domestic and philosophical chaos. The central scene concerns a debate between the...
by James Fritz
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 2014
He says they all do it. These kids, you know, they've got their phones. Film everything. Can't say I blame them. I would at that age.
Seventeen-year-old Jack is the apple of his mother's eye. His parents, Di and David, have devoted their lives to giving him every opportunity they never had....
Voice into Acting
Integrating voice and the Stanislavski approach
Language: English
Release Date: January 16, 2014
How can actors bridge the gap between themselves and the text and action of a script, integrating fully their learned vocal skills? How do we make an imaginary world real, create the life of a role, and fully embody it vocally and physically so that voice and acting become one?
Christina Gutekunst...
The Theatre of Eugene O’Neill
American Modernism on the World Stage
Language: English
Release Date: November 16, 2017
Named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year 2018
The Theatre of Eugene O'Neill offers a new comprehensive overview of O'Neill's career and plays in the context of the American theatre. Organised thematically, it considers his modernist intervention in the theatre, offers readers detailed...
Selections from the Notebooks Of Edward Bond
Volume 2 1980-1995
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
This second volume of Edward Bond's notebooks covers the period from Restoration, his historic drama with songs, to Eleven Vests, his play for young people written for Big Brum Theatre-in-Education
"There is a cliché - which is also false - that all creative writing is autobiographical....
by Mr Howard Brenton, Mr David Hare
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart, and democracy itself cannot function.
Pravda (which means "truth") is a satire written at the height of Thatcherism when huge political changes were afoot. The play essentially studies,...
by Mr Howard Brenton
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: May 21, 2015
First staged at London's National Theatre in 1980, having been commissioned by Peter Hall, The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Northern Ireland during The Troubles of...
National Theatre Connections 2013
The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll Be Happy; Soundclash; Don't Feed the Animals; Ailie and the Alien; Forty-Five Minutes
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2013
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights – a mixture of established and current writers – National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically...