Methuen Drama, 2019

Modern Plays

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

...This is about my responsibility. Doing what is right. Being where I'm needed. I've started a job and I must finish it. I owe it to the people of Iraq. In 1926, the nation of Iraq is in its infancy,...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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

...A Negotiation is a monologue performed by an unnamed Iraqi woman at the site of a threatened antiquity about the power and legacy of artefacts. It is included in Plays of Arabic Heritage, the first ever collection of plays...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future.A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution.A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Modern Plays

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

...Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future.A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution.A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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

...Hakawatis is a feminist take on 1001 Nights and the Scheherazade story It is included in Plays of Arabic Heritage, the first ever collection of plays by Palestinian-Irish playwright Hannah Khalil; the first woman of Arab...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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

...Hakawati Noun: Storyteller. From the Arabic terms 'hekaye' meaning story and 'haki' meaning to talk. A tyrant revenges his wife...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 21, Roles: Total (8), Female (6), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...Last of the Pearl Fishers is a radio play set in contemporary Dubai in which an ex-pat English woman becomes obsessed with her maid's disappearance. It is included in Plays of Arabic Heritage, the first ever collection of plays...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (4), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (1)

...Can you ever really trust a machine? It is the near future.A couple are struggling to conceive, but fortunately their company has the perfect solution.A woman waits in a VR metaverse to do homework with her young...

Methuen Drama, 2024

Modern Plays

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...Every time I've tried to make this dish there's been something missing. It hasn't been quite right. But now I think I know what it is. The missing piece. I'm almost sure. Today is the day. I'll get this recipe right. I have to. For them...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 5, Roles: Total (7), Female (3), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Plan D looks at the Palestinian experience through the eyes of a family living through the creation of the State of Israel in 1948. It is included in Plays of Arabic Heritage, the first ever collection of plays...

Methuen Drama, 2016

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 33, Roles: Total (24), Female (7), Male (17), Unassigned (0)

...A picnic interrupted by soldiers. Never-ending queues. Sunbathing in the shadow of a tank. How do people manage when every day is a struggle? Scenes from 68* Years is an epic snapshot of life...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Plays for Young People

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (18), Female (0), Male (0), Unassigned (18)

...I want to know what the other trees know Go where the other trees go Where do they go? Writer Hannah Khalil collaborates...

Methuen Drama, 2022

Modern Plays

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Acts: 5, Scenes: 14, Roles: Total (24), Female (10), Male (14), Unassigned (0)

...'Who knows yet But from this Lady may proceed a gem To lighten all this isle' You know the story: a King who turns his country upside...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 17, Roles: Total (21), Female (13), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...I haven't hurt anyone, killed, raped, murdered - I just ran away - came here to be safe. But I'm locked up. I just - I can't believe this is England. They have run away from unimaginable horrors...