Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...April in Paris is a delicately wrought comedy filled with raucous indelicate dialogue. Al and Bet are a married couple, living a monochrome life. Left half-broke by Al's continuing unemployment, the couple bicker about everything from...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Bouncers by John Godber shows a night on the tiles from the point of view of the men on the door. It is a funny, energetic piece of highly theatrical storytelling where the men are at once themselves, and every character they happen to meet...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (15), Female (5), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...It's Christmas at the A&E of a Hull hospital; as Keith the security guard keeps out of doors to keep an eye on the patients, their families, and the staff, we see an array of people come and go: from drugged-up Stevo to fagged-out Len, each...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...'I have lived and worked in Hull and East Yorkshire since 1984 and it is well known for many things, not all of them laudable, but what is perhaps less well known is that region is incredibly flat and would be vulnerable to flooding should...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (6), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...In his introduction, Godber describes Happy Families as 'a much more lyrical play than either Bouncers or Shakers. It is autobiographical, sentimental, domestic and insular, and yet it is quite theatrical at the same time. The narrator John...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Jack Munroe was born in 1914, the only son of Amanda Munroe, and lived all of his life in Upton, a small mining village in West Yorkshire. His wife Liz was born Elizabeth Cooper. They were the same age, lived down the same street, went...

Methuen Drama, 1995

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Jean and Morris are the lucky sods of the title – they’ve just won the lottery. Morris bought the ticket and picked the numbers, but Jean changed one at the last minute. They sat, they watched, they won, it happened to them. Nothing...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 34, Roles: Total (10), Female (5), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...May is moving out. After forty-five years in the same house, age – and the racket from next door – have finally driven her away from the home she made for herself and her family. Her son Jack comes round to help...

Methuen Drama, 1995

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Amid the sun, sea, sex and sangria of the Mediterranean, Andy and Tom find themselves torn between sexual promise and commitments back home. Or rather, Tom is torn, finding himself drawn to the self-deprecating Trish, but having to dash off...

Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Ron and Yvonne have gone camping in a caravan bought with Ron's early retirement money. At a cliff's edge, with a view of the sea, they are looking forward to a life of relaxing after stressful careers, to touring in France perhaps, after...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...In Salt of the Earth, Godber presents an affectionate look at a West Yorkshire mining community, following sisters May and Annie, and their families, from the austerity of the post-war 1940s, to the miners' strikes in the 1980s...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Described in his author's introduction as 'my favourite play', September in the Rain revisits Jack and Liz, the characters from Happy Jack, as they take their annual seaside holiday. Through nostalgic songs...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...In Shakers Re-Stirred we see the girls of Shakers cocktail bar, the newest, shiniest cocktail bar in town where, in spite of the glitz and glamour of the décor, the patrons, and the people who serve them, are none too happy at all...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (17), Female (8), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Ray is a failed novelist and a failing investigative journalist who is trying to get a commission from the Observer. He has decided to write about human trafficking, and visits a brothel in London to try to get a story. There he meets Anja,...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2

...Teechers is a play within a play, as secondary school students Gail, Hobby and Salty put on an end of year performance in their drama class. That performance, which tells the story of that last year in school, and in particular, the arrival...

Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Arthur is an ex-Rugby League player who could have still been playing were he not barred for life for violent conduct. The disciplinary board-member who pushed for his ban, Reg, is the manager of a sevens team, the Cobblers; a team he is so...