Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 16, Roles: Total (16), Female (10), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Babies is a warm-hearted, buoyant and very funny comedy about homosexuality and judgement in a working-class setting. Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four and a form tutor at a south-east London comprehensive. Alternately...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Upliftingly optimistic, Harvey’s play about two teenage boys falling in love refuses melodramatic clichés to offer a story bright with sensitivity, pathos and wit. Sixteen-year-old Jaime lives with his mum Sandra and her...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 3, Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...It’s 1995, it’s the Eurovision Song Contest and Lulu’s ‘Boom Bang-a-Bang’ is the soundtrack to this exuberant conjuration of a Eurovision party that starts as camp and ends as farce, though there is a real power to Harvey’s discussion...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 32, Roles: Total (31), Female (8), Male (15), Unassigned (8)

...In 1960s Liverpool Tom and Billy hide their love in the closet, then go their separate ways. As pits close and the dole queues grow, Mickey and Russell escape to find Heaven in 1980s London. But today the paparazzi turn judge and jury over...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 13, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Guiding Star is a funny and powerfully authentic portrait of a Liverpudlian family. At its centre is Terry and his unapproachable silence; he and his sons, Laurence and Liam, were at the Hillsborough disaster, in which nearly a hundred...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 24, Roles: Total (16), Female (8), Male (7), Unassigned (1)

...Danny is a young man, waiting to be let into heaven. There seems to be some difficulty about it, but Judy Garland reassures him as she passes by in a boat full of stars. Away from the dreamlike and unexpected version of the afterlife...

Methuen Drama, 2020

Modern Plays

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

...It's no secret that Sylvie is unravelling. Frozen in time in her Blundellsands house, she inhabits a fantasy world that never was. Garnet, her sister, is older and wiser – and wearier, with her shopping lists and tired love. She's always...

Methuen Drama, 2002

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Out in the Open is a funny and honest exploration of love and the limits of friendship set over a long, hazily hot summer weekend in London. It is six months after the death of Frankie, Tony’s partner, and Tony has brought...

Methuen Drama, 1999

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (5), Female (2), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Jonathan Harvey’s heart-wrenching and hilarious play is about five people who are irrational, lonely, loving, a little bit crazy, and very real. In the middle flat at 15 Rupert Street lives Shaun, a hairdresser whose...