Methuen Drama, 2026

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Roles: Total (10), Female (3), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...In his psychological relationship drama, Simon Stephens depicts family tragedies against the backdrop of climate change and intergenerational conflicts. While the youth feel abandoned by their parents and their searching and longing lead...">

...In his psychological relationship drama, Simon Stephens depicts family tragedies against the backdrop of climate change and intergenerational conflicts. While the youth feel abandoned by their parents and their searching and longing lead...

Methuen Drama, 2010

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...On a farm in the north-east of England, four generations gather in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the end of the world. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle...">

...On a farm in the north-east of England, four generations gather in an epic play about hope, love, fear and the end of the world. A Thousand Stars Explode in the Sky is a refreshingly subtle...

Methuen Drama, 2026

Modern Plays

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

...Don't panic. Don't be scared. This must feel strange to you. It felt strange to me… From quiet...">

...Don't panic. Don't be scared. This must feel strange to you. It felt strange to me… From quiet...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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...London. 2020. A walk back in time. A walk that may change everything he's ever believed. In the wake of city lockdown living and the Black Lives Matter protests, one man's journey across London raises difficult truths he has...">

...London. 2020. A walk back in time. A walk that may change everything he's ever believed. In the wake of city lockdown living and the Black Lives Matter protests, one man's journey across London raises difficult truths he has...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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Roles: Total (13), Female (5), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Bluebird is a sensitive and melancholy play, composed of brief conversations and lifelong sorrow. Taxi driver Jimmy hears about other people’s lives, just for a few moments. In the time it takes to drive them where...">

...Bluebird is a sensitive and melancholy play, composed of brief conversations and lifelong sorrow. Taxi driver Jimmy hears about other people’s lives, just for a few moments. In the time it takes to drive them where...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...With a sharp ear for the verbal rhythms of conversation, Stephens glimpses the everyday weariness beneath the chat of men down on their luck, in a pub that has fallen out of time. It is a week before Christmas in Michael...">

...With a sharp ear for the verbal rhythms of conversation, Stephens glimpses the everyday weariness beneath the chat of men down on their luck, in a pub that has fallen out of time. It is a week before Christmas in Michael...

Methuen Drama, 2004

Modern Plays

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

...Country Music is a dramatic play about love, crime and possibly redemption, with a purity of structure that gives it great emotional force. The play dips in and out of the life of Jamie Carris over twenty years, showing...">

...Country Music is a dramatic play about love, crime and possibly redemption, with a purity of structure that gives it great emotional force. The play dips in and out of the life of Jamie Carris over twenty years, showing...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Daring in its compounding of words, music...">

...Created by Frantic Assembly's Scott Graham, Karl Hyde from Underworld and playwright Simon Stephens, Fatherland confronts contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and contradictions. Daring in its compounding of words, music...

Methuen Drama, 2026

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 4, Scenes: 26, Roles: Total (22), Female (7), Male (13), Unassigned (2)

...Fortune is an epic, sprawling update on Faust that illustrates how a man named Fortune George sells his soul to obtain material success and win the love of a woman named Maggie...">

...Fortune is an epic, sprawling update on Faust that illustrates how a man named Fortune George sells his soul to obtain material success and win the love of a woman named Maggie...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Modern Plays

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

...Harper Regan suddenly walks away from her husband, her daughter and her job to go and see her dying father, a journey of disconnection and realism. When she finds out her father has gone into a hypoglycaemic coma, Harper’s...">

...Harper Regan suddenly walks away from her husband, her daughter and her job to go and see her dying father, a journey of disconnection and realism. When she finds out her father has gone into a hypoglycaemic coma, Harper’s...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world? In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance...">

...Is this the strangest thing that two people have ever done in the history of the world? In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings people together? When two strangers meet by chance...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Herons is a sensitive and mournful play about urban disaffection and brutality, a deeply affecting examination of vulnerability and violence. Flashes of occasional poetry and reverence temper the bleakness of Stephens’s play...">

...Herons is a sensitive and mournful play about urban disaffection and brutality, a deeply affecting examination of vulnerability and violence. Flashes of occasional poetry and reverence temper the bleakness of Stephens’s play...

Methuen Drama, 2019

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 3, Roles: Total (13), Female (8), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event is about to change all their lives...">

...A woman wakes up with a stranger beside her. A student argues with his lover. A single mother fights to feed her baby. A married man flirts with two younger women. And far away, one devastating event is about to change all their lives...

Methuen Drama, 2026

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 3, Scenes: 15, Roles: Total (24), Female (8), Male (15), Unassigned (1)

...Set in a once thriving northern port town surviving on the remnants of its manufacturing heritage, the drama follows Maria, a pregnant 18-year-old navigating the uncertainties of adulthood while searching for connection in an increasingly...">

...Set in a once thriving northern port town surviving on the remnants of its manufacturing heritage, the drama follows Maria, a pregnant 18-year-old navigating the uncertainties of adulthood while searching for connection in an increasingly...

Methuen Drama, 2012

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 12, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...The end of summer. Two friends about to go their separate ways. But they will always share one moment. A moment that changed them forever. Morning is a dark coming-of-age play by acclaimed playwright...">

...The end of summer. Two friends about to go their separate ways. But they will always share one moment. A moment that changed them forever. Morning is a dark coming-of-age play by acclaimed playwright...

Methuen Drama, 2021

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 11, Roles: Total (3), Female (3), Male (0), Unassigned (0)

...I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago...">

...I have kind of become invisible. Nobody looks at me. Not like they used to. You reach an age. Like my age and people stop looking at you. They stop checking you out. In Greenwich Village a generation or so ago...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Acts: 8, Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Written during the London bombings of 2005, Motortown is a fierce, violent and controversial response to the anti-war movement – and to the Iraq war itself. Danny returns from Basra to an England that is foreign to him...">

...Written during the London bombings of 2005, Motortown is a fierce, violent and controversial response to the anti-war movement – and to the Iraq war itself. Danny returns from Basra to an England that is foreign to him...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...I want, one more time, to be absolutely in the moment . . . I am going to try as hard as I can to not be a human being. A series of suggestions on desire, death and time...">

...I want, one more time, to be absolutely in the moment . . . I am going to try as hard as I can to not be a human being. A series of suggestions on desire, death and time...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 42, Roles: Total (11), Female (4), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Set over the course of nine months, On the Shore of the Wide World is an epic play about love, family, Roy Keane and the size of the galaxy. The play spans three generations of a suffering family. Eighteen-year-old Alex...">

...Set over the course of nine months, On the Shore of the Wide World is an epic play about love, family, Roy Keane and the size of the galaxy. The play spans three generations of a suffering family. Eighteen-year-old Alex...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 4, Roles: Total (5), Female (3), Male (2), Unassigned (0)

...A child goes missing, vanishes into thin air, leaving a tender, fragmentary play about the inarticulacy of grief. One Minute follows several connected characters through their struggles with Daisy...">

...A child goes missing, vanishes into thin air, leaving a tender, fragmentary play about the inarticulacy of grief. One Minute follows several connected characters through their struggles with Daisy...