Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...A Bucket of Eels is a skilful contemporary farce. A bridegroom runs away on the eve of his marriage and unleashes a sequence of increasingly bizarre events. First staged 1994 by the RSC as a 'production without décor...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 32, Roles: Total (4), Female (1), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Exeter in 1942. Eric and June, along with their son Francis, 16, welcome 17-year-old Londoner Peter to their home. Peter, an evacuee from the Blitzed capital, is marking time to his 18th birthday when he can finally be called up...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 45, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Once in a While the Odd Thing Happens is drawn from the life of Benjamin Britten and informed by many personal interviews with the composer's friends and especially his sister Beth. The play has an austere beauty which serves to reveal...

Methuen Drama, 1995

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (14), Female (5), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...The Blue Ball is a strange and melodic play, an attempt to comprehend the experience of space travel. Paul Godfrey used a travel grant from the National Theatre to visit centres of space travel in America and Russia...