Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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

...A History of Falling Thingsis a delicate and affecting play, which opens with a boy being hit on the head by a shoe falling out of the sky. Jacqui and Robin are keraunothnetophobiacs – prisoners of their fear of falling...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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

...Graham’s portrait of Einstein’s tortured conscience is delightfully tinged with both homely and black humour, in a play that is nonetheless deeply serious about questions of pacifism and necessity. It is 1953 and Albert...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (35), Female (4), Male (25), Unassigned (6)

...A man should never turn down two things. Sex, and appearing on television. 1968 – a year of protest that divided America. As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others:...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (36), Female (8), Male (28), Unassigned (0)

...It's time to change the game. The country that gave the world football has since delivered a painful pattern of loss. Why can't England's men win at their own game? The team has the worst track record...

Methuen Drama, 2006

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (19), Female (1), Male (18), Unassigned (0)

...Eden’s Empire is a powerful historical play about Anthony Eden’s infamous term as Prime Minister, a gripping account of power and political mistakes. Fifty years ago, Britain propelled itself into a disastrous war...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (32), Female (7), Male (19), Unassigned (6)

...I want to tell you a story. And it's true. That's what makes it a good fucking story, right, 'cause all the best stories are true. Fleet Street. 1969. The Sun rises. James Graham...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean Whittaker cares about principles and her community. Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's traditional northern heartlands...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (34), Female (8), Male (25), Unassigned (0)

...I have to believe in the institutions we trust to be fair, and functional. Whether that be the judiciary, the police, the media … That they should all be able...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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Acts: 12, Scenes: 68, Roles: Total (63), Female (24), Male (39), Unassigned (0)

...Charles Dickens' London is reimagined for the 21st century. Twenty-four hours in the life of a city that has 371 people in every square kilometer, where every street and square...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to present The Audit – a measurement...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (2), Female (0), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Graham presents an affectionate and funny portrait of a year in the life of one nervous self-employed man, pieced together from receipts, shopping and commercial transactions. With a web of narratives, the play's structure is innovative...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Ad executive Barney suffers from synaesthesia, a neurological condition that translates one type of sense perception into another, so that colours may have a taste, or sounds a smell. Barney and his partner Nicola utilize...

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (55), Female (2), Male (14), Unassigned (39)

...This House is a timely and relevant political comedy, exploring Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament. In the run-up to the General Election pressure mounts as squabbling whips attempt to attract key regional votes...