Methuen Drama, 1995

Student Editions

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A compelling story of friendship, loyalty and fate, Blood Brothers is one of the longest-running and most successful ever West End musicals, as well as one of the most moving. Twin brothers are separated at birth because...

Methuen Drama, 1996

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Set on a Liverpool Housing estate in the run up to Christmas, Breezeblock Park is a comedy about the ups and downs of family life. Betty is preparing the decorations for her guest, and making her house neat and tidy for her guests. But what...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Student Editions

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

...Educating Rita portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education. It premiered at the RSC Warehouse, London, in 1980 and won the SWET award for Best Comedy of the Year. It was subsequently made into a highly successful film...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Classics

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (2), Female (1), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Educating Rita is a play for two actors about a working-class woman’s hunger for education, knowledge and culture, and her friendship with a weary, alcoholic, failed poet-cum-lecturer. Susan is a hairdresser who feels...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Student Editions

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

...This Student Edition of Educating Rita provides a wealth of scholarly information, annotation and background to aid the study of Russell's much-loved play. Educating Rita is a play for two actors...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (20), Female (4), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...John, Paul, George, Ringo . . . and Bert was the first major hit for Willy Russell, one of Britain’s best-loved playwrights. A musical about The Beatles, it won the Evening Standard and London Critics’ awards for Best New Musical of 1974...

Methuen Drama, 1988

Modern Plays

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

...One for the Road is an almost farcical comedy about one dinner party too many, as Dennis loses patience with domesticity and makes a break for the freedom of the open road. Dennis and Pauline live in a bungalow in Phase...

Methuen Drama, 1984

Modern Classics

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

...Our Day Out is an account of a school trip for students from a remedial class: hilarious, chaotic and lively, but tinged with the suggestion that the disadvantaged children have little else to look forward to. Mrs Kay...

Methuen Drama, 1988

Modern Plays

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

...The vivid and witty voice of Shirley Valentine, a middle-aged and put-upon housewife, narrates her own epiphany in Russell’s moving and influential comic monologue about personal and sexual identity. Shirley is used...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Classics

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Unknown to each other, Linda and Dave have decided to have their respective hen and stag parties in the same tacky Liverpool club – or more accurately, in its toilets. With the girls applying make-up, doing their hair and crying...