Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 4, Roles: Total (24), Female (3), Male (21), Unassigned (0)

...Absolute Beginners is a stage adaptation of Colin MacInnes’s seminal novel of adolescence, set in London in 1958. It is a play alive with the excitement of the beginning of the teenager, of a time when youth culture was emerging...

Methuen Drama, 2013

Modern Plays

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

...It’s 2011 and 1958 and London is rioting. Candice is ordered by her gang-leading boyfriend to lure Clint into a honeytrap. Haunted by her grandfather’s mistakes, she stands at a crossroads. Will she do as she’s told, or will she learn...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Play Anthologies

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Scenes: 18, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Category B is a sharp and hard-hitting play about the brutal power structures of prison life. It is set in a Category B prison, where all offenders are placed after they are first convicted: it is tough, and dangerous, and compelling...

Methuen Drama, 2001

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Clubland is a south London drama of sexual politics, which confronts pressing questions of race, cultural identity and the roles in which society casts young men and women. Although Ben is married to Denise he's still...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (17), Female (5), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Days of Significance was written in response to Much Ado About Nothing, and follows the love lives and mortal fears of young soldiers departing their English market-towns for the deserts of Iraq. The first act sees two...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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

...He wanted you to be a better man. He wanted to be a better man himself. He was lied to. Just like you are being lied to. A family in mourning. A man in crisis After the death of his dad, Michael...

Methuen Drama, 2023

Modern Plays

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

...Look at it Carly, look at our dream. No one's happy Denise. There are two sides to every story. Grieving the loss of the family shop and their dreams destroyed...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (3), Female (1), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Me jumping out of the van, was the beginning of a very bad day for me. I just didn't know it, but I was going to know it, in about four minutes, I was going to know, fer trut. 2020. Delroy is arrested on his way...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Fallout is the story of a murder investigation splintered by racial tensions and warped forms of justice, a stunning and defiant play. The play opens on the violent murder of a boy on the streets of an estate. The police...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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

...London. 2020. Working as a security guard at Westfield and a mother to a teenage daughter, Donna sees her life as unremarkable. Why have things not turned out how she pictured when she was a young girl, inspired by the words of Michelle...

Methuen Drama, 2007

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (17), Female (7), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Joe Guy is a stark and powerful contemporary story about football and fame, exploring the historical tension and bitter prejudices existing between African and Caribbean British communities. Joseph Boateng is a Ghanaian...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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

...In Roy Williams' bittersweet Life of Riley, Paulette is on a journey to connect with her estranged father Riley, a reggae musician once part of the influential Trojan Records scene, who can't seem to let go of the past...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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

...Little Sweet Thing is raw and spikily contemporary portrayal of a group of young people whose identity depends on acting tough and keeping on the right side of the gangs. The young teenager Tash is sharp-tongued...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (16), Female (4), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Roy Williams’s fierce and excoriating portrait of British racism is set in a south-west London pub, during the 2000 England vs. Germany match. As England lose again, their supporters in The King George lose it too – at full time, patriotism...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Slow Time is a tough, eye-opening play set in a Young Offenders’ Institution, inside three adjoining single cells. In the middle cell, Delroy, who is white, has just spent his first night behind bars. On one side is Nabs...

Aurora Metro Books, 2003

Aurora Metro Books

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

...Sibling rivalry conspires to set three brothers against each other following the death of their mother...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Roles: Total (7), Female (1), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...By turns tender, shocking and funny, Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and black in the '80s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won. In the red corner: Leon Davidson - Black...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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

...Where's the glory Mum? Where's that perfect world for us, your kids? Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia Adams grew up in 1980s London and were activists on the front line against...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...I can’t get out of bed without groaning or feel summin inside of me is creaking… We’re too old for this shit. In a pub in South London ‘The Firm’ reunite for the first time in twelve years. Back...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...The Gift, by Roy Williams, is a touching and vibrant exploration of one family’s loss and their love for each other. When Heather left Jamaica to join her parents who had moved to England, her half-sister Bernice stayed...