Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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

...A marvellously bizarre series of sketches inspired by Victorian travelling shows, Edward Gant’s Amazing Feats of Loneliness is a curious miscellany of tricks, jokes and melancholy. In 1881, the famed and enigmatic...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (1)

...Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (15), Female (4), Male (6), Unassigned (5)

...Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 31, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Anthony Neilson’s Normal is a gripping account of the real-life German serial killer Peter Kurten who, in Germany in 1931 was convicted of the murders of eight people, including several children. In Neilson...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Max and Alan are goofing around their flat, sorting laundry, making tea, and watching highlights of the Gulf War on telly. Max is passing his time less than fruitfully as he seethes over the breakdown of a relationship, while Alan...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (19), Female (3), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...Realism follows the life of one man during an ordinary day but veers off from the commonplace to become a deliriously surreal trip inside his wayward imagination. The play’s shifting, baffling scenes dive inside the mind...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Modern Plays

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

...The dark and intimate Stitching is a kind of love story set at the extremes of brutality, banality and tenderness. A faithless couple pick apart their relationship, stitch by painful stitch. Discovering that Abby is pregnant, she and Stu...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Shirley Fontaine, director, visionary, pornographer, meets with Frank, a censor whose job it is to decide what cuts would make her latest work acceptable for general release. On the face of it, her film is comprised solely of a litany...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...In Neilson’s gleefully escalating farce, soft-hearted and soft-headed police constables Blunt and Gobbel have one last duty to fulfil before they finish their Christmas Eve shift: to tell the old couple at number 58 some terrible news...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Christmas Eve and an elf lands in a warehouse full of cheap and stolen toys. Gary who's not fully convinced it's an elf, calls Simon, who's not fully convinced Gary's sane anymore. They interrogate the intruder, who pleads with them...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (27), Female (8), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...The Wonderful World of Dissocia is a weird and magical play that takes a trip away from reality, exploring a world of psychological disconnection. Somewhere between a delayed transatlantic flight and the clocks going back,...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 22, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Anthony Neilson is often described as one of the most exciting and challenging voices in contemporary British theatre. For over two decades he has acquired a reputation for innovation and experimentation in both writing and directing having...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Fliss's real father has been dead, presumed missing, since she was two years old. Now she believes she has found him, living rough on the streets of London. She takes him in, shaves and bathes him, and puts in place of his total amnesia...