Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A lovingly cynical tribute to the music hall, ’Red Peppers’ features a performing couple whose onstage choreography and off-stage marriage leave something to be desired. Lily and George are still doing the same venerable...

Methuen Drama, 1983

World Classics

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A Song at Twilight is the first play in the trilogy, Suite in Three Keys, in which each play is set in the same Swiss hotel suite. It was written by Coward in 1966, and represents the last of his output for the stage before he died...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Modern Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (7), Female (5), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Blithe Spirit is an ‘improbable farce in three acts: a charming and lightly supernatural comedy about a man whose deceased first wife comes back from the spirit world to live with him. Charles invites the mystic Madame Arcati to hold...

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...This classic comedy is set in the charming country home of Charles Condomine, a re-married widower. A witty and convivial evening party among friends is transformed when a séance conjures the ghost of Elvira, Charles’ first wife, who...

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Your heart dances. The world seems strange and new. You want to laugh and skip and fall forever… You are in love. You are in love with the wrong person. Laura, the respectable suburban wife, and Alec, the idealistic, married doctor, meet...

Methuen Drama, 1979

World Classics

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (29), Female (15), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...‘It is a magnificent play in which the note of national pride pervading every scene and every sentence must make each one of us face the future with courage and high hopes’ The Daily Mail, 1931. Such was the reception for Coward...

Methuen Drama, 1999

World Classics

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Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...'A sketch for a revue must be quick, sharp, funny (or sentimental) and to the point, with a good, really good black-out line. Whether the performers are naked or wearing crinolines is quite beside the point; the same rule applies...

Methuen Drama, 1983

World Classics

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Come into the Garden Maud is the final play in the trilogy, Suite in Three Keys, in which each play is set in the same Swiss hotel suite. It was written by Coward in 1966, and represents the last of his output for the stage before he died...

Methuen Drama, 1979

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (29), Female (16), Male (13), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the decades after the French Revolution, Conversation Piece tells the story of Paul, Duc de Chaucigny-Varennes, who has come to Brighton to escape the terrors in France. In his company is Melanie, a dance hall singer whom Paul passes...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (10), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Design for Living is a wickedly witty romantic comedy of three amoral, glib and stylish characters and their unconventional and hopelessly inescapable entanglement. From 1930s bohemian Paris to the dizzying heights...

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...Three terminally stylish friends, who share rivalrous affections, attempt to uncoil their twisted love triangle in this sexy and scandalous gem. Written in 1932, the play was deemed extremely daring, and even by today’s standards...

Methuen Drama, 1979

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (19), Female (10), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...In Easy Virtue, John Whittaker brings home his new wife for the first time. Some years older than her husband, Larita is a woman of class, beauty and experience, with a worldview, we find, in stark contrast to the single-minded morality...

Methuen Drama, 1979

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Fallen Angels is a biting, hilarious comedy about the rivalry between two bored married women as they await the arrival of their exotic former lover. Dramatising female sexual desire and frustration, the play’s first performances in 1925...

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...Julia and Fred and Willy and Jane are happily married and the best of friends, until a postcard arrives with news of the imminent arrival of a certain handsome Frenchman. Gay, debonair, and utterly sophisticated. An L.A. Theatre Works...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...The Featherway family are gathered glumly in the drawing room in 1860 after their father’s funeral. But as Madeira is drunk, dressing-up boxes unearthed, songs sung, childhood memories re-discovered and the scandalous secrets...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Fumed Oak is a satisfying suburban comedy in two acts: in the first, Henry Gow sits silently as his grumbling mother-in-law, his snappish wife and his whining daughter bicker over breakfast; in the second, he announces that he has changed...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A sparkling, hilarious and technically brilliant short comedy, Hands Across the Sea is set at a cocktail party in a smart London flat where the telephone is always ringing and there are always three conversations happening at once...

Methuen Drama, 1979

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Hay Fever, one of the best-loved of all Coward’s plays, was reckoned by Tyrone Guthrie to have ‘as good a chance of immortality as any works of an author now living’. This comic masterpiece, first performed in June, 1925, has survived...

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...A country house weekend goes haywire when the guests and their hosts play a game of romantic musical chairs. A most delightful madcap comedy. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Tate Donovan, Arabella Field, Joy Gregory...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (10), Female (6), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Following a disastrous train crash in Paris, during which Janet Ebony and her best friend, Peter Chelsworth, are sharing a sleeping compartment, scandalous outrage ensues as Janet’s husband, Paul, and her fearsome mother-in-law accuse them...