Methuen Drama, 2024

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...It's 1830 and fiery, brilliant, Ada Lovelace writes the first computer program for her friend and mentor Charles Babbage. They share a language of numbers, and imagine a world of computing machines. But only Ada dreams that those machines...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (4), Female (4), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...I have no answers. I have nothing but rage and sorrow. And so yes I built you because this is what I do. And honestly it's not that hard, you're basically a chatbot. Merril is one of Silicon Valley's leading...

Methuen Drama, 2024

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Passionate. Vivid. Defiant. Tonight, 18th-century scientific genius Emilie du Châtelet is back and determined to answer the question she died with: love or philosophy, head or heart...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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

...Housebound because of illness, Caroline hasn't been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only Instagram and Facebook for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in – uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy...

Methuen Drama, 2024

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

..."To be or not to be" – In this one-woman tour-de-force, witty and wild Angela paces alone in her basement, waiting out an imminent tornado: in such a stark situation, it is only natural that secrets come out, confessions spill over...

Methuen Drama, 2024

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (5), Female (4), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The true story of 19th-century astronomer Henrietta Leavitt plays out against a landscape of fierce sisterly love, early feminism, paradigm shifting science, romance, revelation, and a time when humans were called “computers...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (1), Female (0), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Honestly the best science I've ever done - and frankly the best science in the history of humankind - has started with the same thought experiment: find the ways in which humanity thinks it is special… and assume that we're not....

Methuen Drama, 2024

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Playwright Olympe de Gouges, assassin Charlotte Corday, former queen (and fan of ribbons) Marie-Antoinette, and Caribbean rebel Marianne Angelle hang out, murder Marat, lose their heads, and try to beat back the extremist insanity...