Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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

...With honesty, humour and occasional anger, performer Bette Bourne tells the playwright Mark Ravenhill about his brave and flamboyant life. Crafted from transcripts of a series of long, private conversations, Bette reminisces and replays...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 37, Roles: Total (20), Female (10), Male (9), Unassigned (1)

...Mark Ravenhill's autobiographical radio play explores the way culture, high and low, impacted both his mother's and his family's lives. Starting an adult ballet class as the only male in the group sparks a memory of life through...

Methuen Drama, 2024

Modern Plays

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

...The 1953 Coronation of Queen Elizabeth II is fast approaching. To mark the occasion, Benjamin Britten has just nine months to write a new opera about her predecessor Elizabeth I. Into the world of the disheartened composer...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (13), Female (7), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Citizenship is a bittersweet one-act comedy about growing up, following a boy's frank and messy search to discover his sexual identity. Tom dreams of being kissed, but he’s not sure whether by a man or by a woman, and he...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Faust is Dead is about existence: virtual, metaphorical, philosophical and suddenly real. It is a dark, shocking and often brutally funny meditation on our world of virtual reality. The world’s most famous philosopher...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Handbag is an angry, satirical, penetrating play about parenthood, which collides a reimagining of events from Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest with the life of a newborn baby in the nineties, the child of a lesbian couple and a gay...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (22), Female (6), Male (16), Unassigned (0)

...Mother Clap’s Molly House, a black comedy with songs, is a riotous celebration of the diversity of human sexuality. In London, 1726, Mrs Tull’s husband has just dropped dead from a surfeit of lustful thoughts. She’s left...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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

...Over There is an intense drama of synchronous disconnection, an allegory of competing ideologies set across the Berlin Wall. When the mother of identical twins, Franz and Karl, defects to the West, she escapes only...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Hypnotic and razor-sharp, pool (no water) tears up the ideals of friendship and art, exposing a deep vein of envy. The lines of the script are not assigned to particular characters or parts, but reveal a seething collective experience...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Product is a satirical monologue, a movie script pitched to a silent actress about a woman who falls in love with a suicide bomber. The producer offers the story of a beautiful, wounded woman, a dark stranger, sublime passion, a nightmare...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Play Anthologies

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (14), Female (6), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Scenes from Family Life is a charged and punchy play about relationships and the last two people left on earth. Lisa and Jack are teenagers, but they are about to become adults; Lisa is pregnant, and neither of them can...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (44), Female (12), Male (32), Unassigned (0)

...Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat is an epic cycle of 16 short plays examining the personal and political effect of war on modern life. Each of the plays is named after an existing classical work as Ravenhill stages the intensity of individual pain...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Student Editions

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Shopping and Fucking is a witty and shocking look at a corrosive disposable world and a numb, desperate generation. The play opened at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1996 and is central to the Nineties movement sometimes called...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (2), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Some Explicit Polaroids is a searing and disturbing examination of the gulf between the leftist non-conformism of the eighties, and the pleasure-hungry culture of the late nineties. Nick has been in prison since 1984...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 16

...London is infected. The dead fall in the streets. As the plague pits fill, the people of London struggle to maintain a society in the face of overwhelming mortality. Based on eye-witness accounts from 1665 and drawing poetic parallels...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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

...It will be the biggest send off any teacher has ever had. No teacher is as loved. After 45 years as a dedicated teacher, Edward is looking forward to the imminent celebration...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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Acts: 1, Scenes: 23, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...The Coronation of Poppea, freely adapted from the libretto by Giovanni Francesco Busenello for L'incoronazione di Poppea by Claudio Monteverdi, depicts the triumphant adultery between Poppea and the Roman emperor Nero. Ravenhill updates...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...The Cut is the story of Paul, the dystopia he lives in, and a streamlined system of oppression with a monstrous, throbbing pain at its core. In a government office, surrounded by administrative forms and directives, Paul...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Play Anthologies

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (15), Female (8), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Totally Over You is a sparky comedy exploring celebrity obsession and romantic foolishness. Kitty, Rochelle, Hannah and Sinita break up with their boyfriends, persuaded by a horoscope and the fame-hungry Kitty that it would be better...