Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...On a farm in the north-east of England, four generations gather in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the end of the world. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle...

Methuen Drama, 1997

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (14), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...David Eldridge blends politics, anger and empathy in a wily portrait of the mid-nineties Conservative middle class, on the brink of a Labour victory and several personal breakdowns. Tony is a computer sales rep, struggling...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...You didn't fancy it then? Fancy what? Getting in the taxi. No. Every...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Festen is the devastating story of a familial dinner party where poisonous dysfunction slowly presses to the surface, a stunning play which is by turns blackly comic and terribly powerful. In a large house in the Danish...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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

...Len’s on his deathbed and the family have gathered to say their final farewells. His sisters still aren’t speaking after nearly twenty years; his nephew’s trying for a baby and a bigger house; while his best mate, Ken, remembers ‘Bas-vegas’...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 39, Roles: Total (13), Female (3), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Incomplete and Random Acts of Kindness is an intricate and complex story of a young man trying to deal with the death of his mother, shown in short and splintered scenes. After his mother’s death, Joey’s life seems...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...M.A.D. is a poignant and compelling family drama following the lives of a struggling market-stall trader, his frustrated wife and their young boy John, as their whole world appears to be coming to an end. At the height of the cold war...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 20, Roles: Total (35), Female (16), Male (18), Unassigned (1)

...Market Boy is a gloriously raucous rite-of-passage drama set in the Thatcherite heartland of Romford Market in the eighties. There's an art to selling stilettos: learn a good wind-up, the pull of cash, learn drugs, learn...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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

...Why do people ever see things through? Why do they ever stay? It's so hard. Every relationship reaches a crossroad some time...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Set among scrub parklands, crumbling pubs and tower blocks, Serving It Up is a portrayal of racism, anger and easy violence in London’s East End. The play opens on Sonny and Nick sitting on a park bench talking about girls...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Summer Begins follows four young people in and out of love, adrift in suburbia. Dave has asked Gina to marry him over the poppadums in their local Indian restaurant. Unfortunately, Dave isn’t really her dream come true – not much else...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...Written with Eldridge's trademark lyricism of everyday family life and interaction, The Knot of the Heart is a play where emotions are high and relationships are sensitively written. Beautiful and privileged, Lucy is enjoying a burgeoning...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...The Stock Da’wa is a taut and blackly comic three-person play about truth, fundamentalism and mothers. Paul, Joan and Mr Wilson are standing in the kitchen. Paul has just returned with a bag and a bloodied nose to his...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...In three subtly-linked acts, three pairs of teachers discuss love and lust with boldness and honesty, as Eldridge studies unrequited affection, obsession, sex, and even being happy. Nick and Helen have been friends...