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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Methuen Drama, 2008

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 8

...One week in July 2005. Live 8. G8. London 2012 Olympic bid. 7/7. Britain feels like the centre of the world. World-changing politics, gigantic charity concerts, the chance to host the Olympics; everything’s happening...

Methuen Drama, 2005

Contemporary Dramatists

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Scenes: 8, Roles: Total (12), Female (5), Male (7), Unassigned (0)

...Port by Simon Stephens is set entirely in Stockport, Stephens's hometown. Following his protagonist Racheal Keats, we watch her dissatisfaction with her surroundings ebb and escalate as those she loves begin to let her down or leave her...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 7, Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Edgy and acute, Punk Rock is a slow-building story of violence at school, told with compelling depth and tension. The play introduces us to seven high-achieving teenagers at a fee-paying grammar school. They are holed up in the Upper School...

Methuen Drama, 2018

Modern Plays

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Scenes: 27, Roles: Total (24), Female (12), Male (12), Unassigned (0)

...Simon Stephens' explosive play Rage was written as a counterpoint for Elfriede Jelinek's Wut. Composed as 27 high-energy scenes, each one is based on a series of photos by Joel Goodman which captured the excitement and the mayhem of New...

Methuen Drama, 2009

Contemporary Dramatists

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

...Sea Wall is a delicate monologue, completely devastating and beautifully powerful. Alex’s story, spoken directly to the audience, begins full of clear light and smiles, as he speaks about his wife, visiting her father...

Methuen Drama, 2011

Modern Plays

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

...T5 portrays a road trip below the heart of London and follows a darkly magical flight out to the edges of the 21st Century. Visions of violence, and the ancient and modern lights of the city mingle with the dreams and nightmares of family...

Methuen Drama, 2017

Modern Plays

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

...Chekhov’s celebrated masterpiece is given vibrant new life in this dynamic new version by Olivier award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. Switching effortlessly between the ridiculous and the profound The Seagull...