Methuen Drama, 1992

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Caring is a sparsely staged, lean duologue between Zena and Clarke, two characters who appear to be each other’s spouse, but also each the lovers of others. Through their exchanges of accusation, counter-accusation, clarification...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (21), Female (2), Male (19), Unassigned (0)

...Set in England during the 1600s, Cromwell depicts a world of conflict and survival as the warring of rival ideological factions decimates the opportunities for ordinary people to live ordinary lives. The play centres...

Methuen Drama, 1992

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...As five apparently unrelated characters meet in a seemingly insignificant garden, the autumnal sun shines overhead and everybody waits for rain. What they discuss is superficially anything that can pass the time. What...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...As the Shaw sons gather to celebrate their parents’ fortieth wedding anniversary, the tensions of their family history come to the surface. Their father, who’s spent his life on his back down the mines, has always been proud of the grammar...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Life Class depicts a crucial day in the life of an art school teacher named Allott, as he aims to lead his class through the processes of discovery that will turn their sketches into artworks, but which instead lead only to troubling scenes...

Methuen Drama, 1992

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...In Stages, the life story of Richard Fenchurch, an ageing artist and writer, is unwound as his sanity unravels. He tells his story, remembering details and revealing secrets as visitors, both apparently real and obviously imagined – his...

Methuen Drama, 1998

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...On a cold morning in Northern England, a large group of men gather in the changing rooms of their local rugby club, preparing for the match. Through David Storey’s three-act play we see the players, and the men who own, run and work...

Methuen Drama, 1992

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (12), Female (3), Male (9), Unassigned (0)

...Mr Ewbank, tenting contractor for all outside and inside occasions is organising the marquee for his daughter's wedding. His team of labourers banter and backbite as they work, erecting a huge muslin tent. The audience watch...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Twenty years on from his 1969 depiction of class division and family troubles in In Celebration, David Storey wrote The March on Russia, a further domestic drama centring around the tensions that arise when an aging family gathers together...

Methuen Drama, 1994

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...The Restoration of Arnold Middleton is a domestic tragicomedy of a thirty-something married couple and their unusual living arrangements. Arnie, a history teacher, is a delusional attention seeker with a penchant for cluttering his home...