Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (74), Female (13), Male (14), Unassigned (47)

...Beneath a sky full of stars a decision is made. This decision sets off an astonishing chain of events. And a journey involving a talking leopard, a greedy king, a magical bird, a tidal wave, a sea witch, a lost soldier, a devious dolphin...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (59), Female (18), Male (41), Unassigned (0)

...A doorway to a new future is ready to open. We are the hinge of that moment. We will let the door swing wide. On a beautiful spring evening – when both moons are full – two teenagers vow eternal love...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (4), Female (2), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Leaves of Glass is a sharp, complex play about two brothers and the grim hold that their memories have on them. Barry is an artist who works for his older brother Stephen’s graffiti-removal company; Stephen is a successful...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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

...In a ravaged dystopia where there is nothing left to live for, fantasies of death are the best currency. Mercury Fur is set in a lawless, degraded city, where the British Museum has been looted...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...An abandoned home. A lost brother. A secret love story. Curtis has arranged a meeting in a flat of a derelict tower block. Years ago, when he was a child, Curtis lived happily here but, then, tragedy struck and his elder...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Piranha Heights is a mercurial and apocalyptic vision of a society at conflict with itself, as family drama quickly becomes deadly confrontation. It’s Mother’s Day and mother is dead. Now her two sons Alan and Terry return...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A young couple are moving into their new home. A soldier is being held hostage. Two boys are searching for monsters. All these things are connected by both family and time . . . but what story can be told when both family...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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

...Of course – as you've no doubt guessed – there's a big 'But Then' moment heading this way… It's a sunny, spring day in East London. On a street corner, two teenagers kiss. One of them...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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

...Tender Napalm is a high-impact, high-concept two handed play which explores the landscape that is a relationship between a man and a woman. Explosive, poetic and brutal, the play re-examines and redefines a savagely romantic language...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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

...In a strange room in East London the party preparations are under way. Everything has been planned to the last detail. Surely nothing can go wrong? After all, there’s the specially made birthday cake, the specially written cards...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...The Pitchfork Disney heralded the arrival of a unique and disturbing voice in the world of contemporary drama. Manifesting Ridley's vivid and visionary imagination and the dark beauty of his outlook, the play resonates with his trademark...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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

...'Art's my hobby too.' Hobby?! Sasha was destined to take the art world by storm. At the age of fifteen pop stars wanted his paintings, and a new exhibition was going to make him a rich man. But now he...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Contemporary Dramatists

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...In Bloodshot, an eighteen-year old girl goes for a walk in Victoria Park after a brass band concert, and meets a younger boy with a bloodshot eye. The eye unlocks something within the girl, usually rational and unemotional, as she becomes...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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

...Donny has committed an act that shocked everyone. Tabloids called him ‘evil’ and The Most Hated Boy Alive. No one can understand why he did what he did. And no one can forgive him. But Donny’s not really interested in forgiveness. All he...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...After her son, Vincent, is murdered in a homophobic attack, Anita must come to terms with her loss, and the hidden fact of his sexuality, an aspect of his identity that she had refused to countenance while he was alive...