Methuen Drama, 2023

Modern Plays

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (13), Female (6), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Some things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors. Today, it's all three! 1959. The first wave...">

...Some things we do for those we are responsible for, some things for ourselves, and some things we do for the ancestors. Today, it's all three! 1959. The first wave...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Student Editions

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 1, Roles: Total (13), Female (7), Male (6), Unassigned (0)

...Alongside Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Beneatha's Place imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from A Raisin in the Sun beyond the confines of her play. Beneatha moves from 1950s America...">

...Alongside Bruce Norris's Clybourne Park, Kwame Kwei-Armah's Beneatha's Place imagines a life for Lorraine Hansberry's characters from A Raisin in the Sun beyond the confines of her play. Beneatha moves from 1950s America...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Deli is trying to revive the fortunes of his mother’s restaurant in Murder Mile, Hackney. But where does his son disappear to on the night of the re-opening? And why does his friend Digger offer him protection...">

...Deli is trying to revive the fortunes of his mother’s restaurant in Murder Mile, Hackney. But where does his son disappear to on the night of the re-opening? And why does his friend Digger offer him protection...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...It’s Black History month but you wouldn’t know it in Tottenham where plans are afoot to turn Kwesi’s All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi’s ‘conscious’ bookstore will soon go the same way...">

...It’s Black History month but you wouldn’t know it in Tottenham where plans are afoot to turn Kwesi’s All Black African Party hotbed into luxury flats, and it looks like Kiyi’s ‘conscious’ bookstore will soon go the same way...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 9, Roles: Total (3), Female (2), Male (1), Unassigned (0)

...Alfred is an elderly man, originally from the West Indies, described in stage directions as ‘quintessentially grumpy … a cross almost between Alf Garnett and Victor Meldrew’. He is attended to intermittently by his thirty-year-old daughter...">

...Alfred is an elderly man, originally from the West Indies, described in stage directions as ‘quintessentially grumpy … a cross almost between Alf Garnett and Victor Meldrew’. He is attended to intermittently by his thirty-year-old daughter...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Play Anthologies

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (8), Female (4), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Seize the Day is a smart and pacy political drama about Jeremy Charles, a man who could be London’s first black mayor. He seems ideal: a well-spoken, good-looking Londoner who made his name on television, and made his way...">

...Seize the Day is a smart and pacy political drama about Jeremy Charles, a man who could be London’s first black mayor. He seems ideal: a well-spoken, good-looking Londoner who made his name on television, and made his way...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (9), Female (2), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think-tank, hits the bottle after his father’s death. As media interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously, favours a young Oxford scholar over his...">

...Kwaku Mackenzie, founder of a Black policy think-tank, hits the bottle after his father’s death. As media interest in the once dynamic Institute fades, his team grows fractious and then, disastrously, favours a young Oxford scholar over his...