Methuen Drama - Böcker

What is ethics and what has it got to do with theatre? Drawing on both theoretical material and practical examples, Ridout makes a clear and compelling critical intervention, raising fundamental questions about what theatre is for and how audience...

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A student edition of Marston's classic play The Malcontent is a tragicomedy deriving from the tradition of the revenge play. The verbal ingenuity of Malevole, the "malcontent", and the extravagance of the drama, push the relentlessness o...

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A triumphant transformation of mediaeval mystery plays into radical political theatre Mistero Buffo, or The Comic Mysteries, recreates the irreverent vitality of the popular mediaeval theatre. It is based on careful research into the work of the s...

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This volume contains Ibsen's two most famous and frequently read, studied and performed plays about women: A Doll's House (1879), his first international success, which 'exploded like a bomb into contemporary life', and Hedda Gabler (1890), now on...

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These five short plays date from Brenton's early involvement in such 'shoestring' groups as Portable Theatre. They are deliberately intended for the 'poor theatre' - as relevant today as when they were first written - since each play requires a sm...

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The second volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume contains two of Strindberg's best-known plays from the years following his mental breakdown: the expressionist masterpiece A Dream Play (...

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John Galsworthy (1867-1933), novelist and dramatist, is most widely known as the author of The Forsyte Saga, but recent productions testify to the power that his plays still exert over modern audiences and the strength and relevance of the issues ...

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A book on the cultural and revolutionary florescence of the American Theatre, circa 1963-1973 A comprehensive study of the 'revolutionary' theatre of New York director/writer Peter Schumann including production details, photographs and extracts of...

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Howard Brenton is one of Britain's best-known and most controversial dramatists The Romans in Britain was the play that brought calls to bring back censorship when it was first staged at the National in 1980. It conjures up "an era that is cu...

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Road: "A surreal vision of the contemporary urban landscape...uncomfortable and magical, funny and bitter. It is a northern Under Milk Wood, high on pills and booze" (Sunday Times).

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Stephen Poliakoff 'has been one of our sharpest and least predictable writers for the past twenty years' (Daily Telegraph) Clever Soldiers: "is a thoughtful play about violence" (Times) which attacks the mythology of Oxbridge against the...

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A play for 7-12 year olds, based on the events of October 1988 at Point Barrow, North Alaska, when three Californian grey whales were trapped under the ice. Other plays for children by this playwright include Solomon and Big Cat.

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Good is the story of how a 'good' man gets caught up in the nightmare of the Third Reich: "Germany in the thirties? Nothing, I should have thought was harder to dramatise. Witness all those turgid films and telly plays full of stuffed SS unif...

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The third volume in the series of authoritative Methuen editions of Strindberg's Collected Plays This volume brings together Strindberg's first great play, Master Olof (1872): 'Michael Meyer's agile translation of a flawed idealist who shrinks fro...

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"Doug Lucie is perhaps the only young British dramatist with a truly distinctive voice and in Fashion, it is at its most splendidly scornful, bilious and charmless." Benedict Nightingale (The Times) Doug Lucie is one of Britain's most ac...

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"The most perceptive and humane of Black dramatists writing in Britain" (New Statesman) Mustapha Matura's farcical, fictional coup, set in an independent Trinidad and Tobago, swings with the fluid language and magical lyricism of the Car...

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Winner of the 1990 Mobil Playwriting Competition for the Royal Exchange Theatre Manchester. A gutsy tragi-comic drama set in a run-down Newcastle housing estate where Jean, divorced from the violent, foul-mouthed Micky, rules over a household that...

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The Madame MacAdam Travelling Theatre is a small English touring company of players. It arrives in a provincial Irish town, sometime in the early 1940s during the turmoil of World War II.

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"The only time I feel like dusting down the term 'genius', in the pure sense of an influential demonic character, is when I'm confronted by a great Ken Campbell show." (Michael Coveney, Observer) "Campbell is conducting us on a guid...

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"Robert Holman is the quiet man among modern British dramatists. But his new play is an outstanding work that sings with truth" (Michael Billington, Guardian) Eileen and her grandson Matty, 16, travel to Russia to stay with scientist Pav...

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"British Theatre's antic visionary" (Guardian) "We're doing three David Hare plays all on one day, you see and we're calling that a trilogy - The Hare Trilogy - So if we had yours on, it would seem like trilogies were in the wind.&q...

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Winner of the George Devine Award in 1993, Babies premiered at the Royal Court theatre, London in September 1994 Liverpudlian Joe Casey is twenty-four, gay and a form tutor at a south-east London comprehensive. Joe's life is spliced between the dr...

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This volume contains the three most recent plays by the playwright credited with bringing poetic drama back to the Irish stage. The plays are White Woman Street, Steward of Christendom and The Only True History of Lizzie Finn.

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Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in class and ending with what leading professional actors must achieve every night on the three stages of the Royal National Theatre, Patsy Rodenburg's celebrated work as one of the world's...

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"I don't think there is a more hilariously anarchic talent on the loose in British theatre" (The Times) This monologue, premiered in 1996 at The National features a mysterious female French book thief, an oriental violinist and the Templ...

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This adaptation by David Hare premiered at the Almeida Theatre, London in 1997 starring Ralph Fiennes This is a drama of a Russian landowner's half-farcical, half serious personal crisis as he plummets fast into domestic and philosophical chaos. T...

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"Exhilarating and electrifying theater. It is fast, it is inevitable, and it is, as tragedy should be, weirdly beautiful" (New York Daily News) Rose, Lilian and her boyfriend, Frederic, are faces in the crowd, striving for the promise of...

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