Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (11), Female (6), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...An Experiment With An Air Pump is a daring and thoughtful play with a flurry of ideas and questions about the ethics of knowledge. The play is inspired by the painting of the same name by Joseph Wright of Derby, and gives...

Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Ancient Lights brings three old friends and their partners and children together for Christmas, whose private lives and public lies furnish a contemporary commentary on identity and integrity. Tom Cavallero, Hollywood...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Enlightenment is a powerful study of the mechanisms of grief, identity and absence. When Adam disappears overseas, all his mother Lia and step-father Nick have is an email saying that he was thinking of going to Jakarta...

Methuen Drama, 2003

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Harrowing and claustrophobic, Five Kinds of Silence describes the sickening abuse inflicted by a father upon his wife and daughters. Janet and Susan have just shot Billy, their father. The appalling grip he has...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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

...Harriet Martineau (1802–1876) was a social theorist who is often credited as being the first female sociologist. In Harriet Martineau Dreams of Dancing, Shelagh Stephenson depicts the great writer in a period of convalescence, living...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Modern Plays

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

...Seventy-year-old Jack is afraid of dying, or perhaps he’s afraid that he hasn’t lived, in this haunting play about memory, guilt and redemption. While Anna prepares for her wedding, her father Jack is forced to confront...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Modern Plays

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

...When eighteen-year-old Danny is fatally stabbed in a random attack his family struggles to find meaning and forgiveness. His mother’s determination to understand the atrocity brings her face to face with his killer and forces the family...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Student Editions

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (6), Female (4), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Three estranged sisters meet on the eve of their mother’s funeral to argue and misremember in Shelagh Stephenson’s examination of the structures of memory and family. As they attempt to organise her funeral, their memories...