Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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

...We should all have been taught more of life and less good manners It is three years since Agnes, an artist, left her unfaithful husband Henry. Now he writes to her in her Kensington studio begging...

Methuen Drama, 1993

World Classics

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

...A masterful short comic drama from Harley Granville Barker, Rococo is a chamber piece that trains its lens on family conflict, inheritance law and objets d’arts, refracting these issues through the prism of a Rococo vase which has made its...

Methuen Drama, 1993

World Classics

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...The Secret Life depicts a world of disillusioned idealists, and demotivated power-brokers, as Granville Barker turns his eye to a subtle analysis of the torpor of the ruling classes struggling to remain purposeful in a Britain that’s been...

Methuen Drama, 1993

World Classics

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Acts: 5, Roles: Total (18), Female (8), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Financial chicanery and ethical concerns conflict in this early twentieth-century classic. Edward’s highly principled world is turned upside down when his father reveals that he has been illegally speculating with clients’...

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...In this surprisingly modern psychological portrait, a prosperous Edwardian family is torn apart when young Edward Voysey discovers that his family’s wealth was obtained through three generations of deceit and theft. A captivating study...

Methuen Drama, 1993

World Classics

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

...Lord Silverwell, a former MP, has had to vacate his seat in the Commons. What had been a safe seat for generations, now becomes vulnerable, even with Lord Silverwell’s son, Noel, contesting it for the party. Luckily, Lord Silverwell...

Methuen Drama, 1993

World Classics

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (16), Female (6), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Backstage at a hung parliament, visionary Independent Henry Trebell is co-opted by the Tories to push through a controversial Bill. Pursuing his cause with missionary zeal, he’s barely distracted by his brief affair with a married woman...