Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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...Drawing upon the convention of traditional noh theatre to stage stories audiences already know, Playwright Deborah Brevoort presents an unconventional retelling of the life of Elvis Presley...">

...Drawing upon the convention of traditional noh theatre to stage stories audiences already know, Playwright Deborah Brevoort presents an unconventional retelling of the life of Elvis Presley...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...This story is based on an historical event – the shipwreck in 1836 of the Stirling Castle off the coast of K’gari – formerly known as ‘Fraser Island’ in English – and the subsequent sojourn of Eliza Fraser among the local indigenous...">

...This story is based on an historical event – the shipwreck in 1836 of the Stirling Castle off the coast of K’gari – formerly known as ‘Fraser Island’ in English – and the subsequent sojourn of Eliza Fraser among the local indigenous...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Scenes: 2, Roles: Total (5), Female (1), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Written as part of the Vote 100 commemorations in 2018 to mark a century since women over 30 were given the right to vote, Emily tells the story of Emily Wilding Davidson, a member of the militant wing of the Suffrage movement. In her life,...">

...Written as part of the Vote 100 commemorations in 2018 to mark a century since women over 30 were given the right to vote, Emily tells the story of Emily Wilding Davidson, a member of the militant wing of the Suffrage movement. In her life,...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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Acts: 2, Scenes: 10, Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Pagoda is the most internationally performed English-language noh to date. It draws together the story of how its author found their father's birthplace in China in the mid-1970s at a time when China was still virtually closed to the West...">

...Pagoda is the most internationally performed English-language noh to date. It draws together the story of how its author found their father's birthplace in China in the mid-1970s at a time when China was still virtually closed to the West...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...A night in the deeply shadowed pine barrens of New Jersey, tales of devilish creatures and swamps that entice curious children into their deadly depths, an eerie burial mound, a pair of Wiccan priests or witches in search of a lost...">

...A night in the deeply shadowed pine barrens of New Jersey, tales of devilish creatures and swamps that entice curious children into their deadly depths, an eerie burial mound, a pair of Wiccan priests or witches in search of a lost...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...St. Francis takes the titular historical figure and crafts a dramatic opportunity for him to convey his worldly, spiritual values. Little’s play has the harsh world of a contemporary India as its location, from which the character of St...">

...St. Francis takes the titular historical figure and crafts a dramatic opportunity for him to convey his worldly, spiritual values. Little’s play has the harsh world of a contemporary India as its location, from which the character of St...

Methuen Drama, 2025

Methuen Drama Play Collections

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

...Zahdi Dates and Poppies uses the warrior play tradition in noh theatre to imagine the ghost of a real man killed by the playwright's husband who had been deployed to fight for the US in Iraq...">

...Zahdi Dates and Poppies uses the warrior play tradition in noh theatre to imagine the ghost of a real man killed by the playwright's husband who had been deployed to fight for the US in Iraq...