Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...A provincial newspaper office in the 1970s – and it’s another day of chaos in the cuttings library. Files all over the floor, phones left ringing. And where is Lucy, the librarian . . . ? Her life (when she finally arrives), and the lives...

Methuen Drama, 2003

Student Editions

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

...In 1941 the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made a strange trip to Copenhagen to see his Danish counterpart, Niels Bohr. They were old friends and close colleagues, and they had revolutionised atomic physics in the 1920s with their work...

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...A BBC/KCET Hollywood co-production, Copenhagen is a stylish screen adaptation of Michael Frayn’s award winning stage-play about science, friendship and the uncertainty of things. In 1941, the German physicist Werner Heisenberg made...

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...How different would the world have looked had the Nazis been the first to build an atomic bomb? Werner Heisenberg, one of Hitler's lead nuclear scientists, famously and mysteriously met in Copenhagen with his colleague and mentor, Niels...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Cath and Phil walked down the street, saw a ‘To Let’ board, and rented the top floor of Pat’s house, the studio that used to be the boys’ room, where she put Eric when he had his cough, in that chair just there behind the curtain...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...La Belle Vivette is Michael Frayn’s reworking of Offenbach’s La Belle Hélène (1864). Frayn eschews the original’s setting in Ancient Sparta in order to give his adaptation a metatheatrical twist, creating an opera about the creation...

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...From the author of Copenhagen and Noises Off. A comedy-drama about a door manufacturing company and a fateful convention in Frankfurt. An L.A. Theatre Works full-cast performance featuring Rosalind Ayres, Allan Corduner, David Ellenstein...

Methuen Drama, 2000

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Set in the office of a small political pressure group for open government, Now You Know is a satirical comedy about the aftermath of a police cover-up. Mr Hassam has beaten himself to death, according to the Home Office. When a mysterious...