Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...A Cemetery combines protest and satire, reflecting the grim reality of gratuitous death in Iraq. Iraq offers fertile ground to engage in dialogues about our culture through art to address topics that distinguish it from other countries...">

...A Cemetery combines protest and satire, reflecting the grim reality of gratuitous death in Iraq. Iraq offers fertile ground to engage in dialogues about our culture through art to address topics that distinguish it from other countries...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Almas is a much-needed documentation of a relatively unknown tragedy about the enslavement and captivity of Yzidi and Christian women in northern Iraq by ISIS in 2014...">

...Almas is a much-needed documentation of a relatively unknown tragedy about the enslavement and captivity of Yzidi and Christian women in northern Iraq by ISIS in 2014...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...An actress Dies. The Angel of Death comes to usher her from life. But the newly deceased has one more role to play: to convince her guide that life has meaning.  Azrael is an attempt to delve into the meaning...">

...An actress Dies. The Angel of Death comes to usher her from life. But the newly deceased has one more role to play: to convince her guide that life has meaning.  Azrael is an attempt to delve into the meaning...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Counterfeit was conceived to address the horror of terrorism and its profound impact on the structure of society and the family, but through comedy. This means ridiculing or mocking extremists and highlighting the alienation of a person...">

...Counterfeit was conceived to address the horror of terrorism and its profound impact on the structure of society and the family, but through comedy. This means ridiculing or mocking extremists and highlighting the alienation of a person...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Roles: Total (11), Female (1), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...Princes of Hell is a monodrama about a group of five terrorists from neighbouring countries who plan to blow up a major Iraqi symbol, the Freedom Monument by sculptor Jawad Saleem, located in the heart of Baghdad's Freedom Square (al-Tahir...">

...Princes of Hell is a monodrama about a group of five terrorists from neighbouring countries who plan to blow up a major Iraqi symbol, the Freedom Monument by sculptor Jawad Saleem, located in the heart of Baghdad's Freedom Square (al-Tahir...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Breaking the norms of Iraqi traditions, Robots focuses on the customs of marriage and gender. In this marriage, the husband and wife have differing awarenesses of the traditions that shape their consciousness. While the husband...">

...Breaking the norms of Iraqi traditions, Robots focuses on the customs of marriage and gender. In this marriage, the husband and wife have differing awarenesses of the traditions that shape their consciousness. While the husband...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Scenes: 6, Roles: Total (14), Female (4), Male (10), Unassigned (0)

...The fall of the Assyrian Empire is considered one of the great tragic events in history. After two major Assyrian empires emerged in the modern Assyrian era (746–911 BCE and 745–609 BCE) and following the powerful rule of the Assyrian...">

...The fall of the Assyrian Empire is considered one of the great tragic events in history. After two major Assyrian empires emerged in the modern Assyrian era (746–911 BCE and 745–609 BCE) and following the powerful rule of the Assyrian...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Between a simple cobbler and the intellectual, the events of The Clock unfold. It protrays the conflict between the cobbler, who wants to make change in the world but doesn’t know how, and the intellectual, who knows how but doesn’t want...">

...Between a simple cobbler and the intellectual, the events of The Clock unfold. It protrays the conflict between the cobbler, who wants to make change in the world but doesn’t know how, and the intellectual, who knows how but doesn’t want...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...In The Curse of Chopin, the protagonist discards the influence of the ideal family, diverging from the sharp boundaries drawn for her future, and sees what others do not see, settling within the music school...">

...In The Curse of Chopin, the protagonist discards the influence of the ideal family, diverging from the sharp boundaries drawn for her future, and sees what others do not see, settling within the music school...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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...The Mug depicts the experiences of a theatre artist in his early 60s, grappling with the scars of a tumultuous past while navigating the challenges of a new life in Canada...">

...The Mug depicts the experiences of a theatre artist in his early 60s, grappling with the scars of a tumultuous past while navigating the challenges of a new life in Canada...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Bloomsbury Publishing

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Scenes: 19, Roles: Total (8), Female (2), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Offers a perspective on contemporary Iraqi theatre, the theatre of exile. Moving away from Iraq into the exiled community a central character is now living in Canada. Ashamed of abandoning a widow of the 2003 US-led invastion whom he left...">

...Offers a perspective on contemporary Iraqi theatre, the theatre of exile. Moving away from Iraq into the exiled community a central character is now living in Canada. Ashamed of abandoning a widow of the 2003 US-led invastion whom he left...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Women of war, with their oppressive circumstances, displacement, and migration to lands other than their own, write their lives in exile. They struggle to find acceptance in a new society and adapt to exile while longing...">

...Women of war, with their oppressive circumstances, displacement, and migration to lands other than their own, write their lives in exile. They struggle to find acceptance in a new society and adapt to exile while longing...