Modern Classics

Beginning

David Eldridge Every story starts somewhere. It’s the early hours of the morning and Danny’s the last straggler at Laura’s party. The flat’s in a mess. And so are they. One more drink? David Eldridge's sharp and astute two-hander takes an intimate look at the first fragile moments of risking your heart and taking a chance. This tender and funny play received its world premiere at the National's Dorfman Theatre in October 2017 before transferring to the West End.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 102 pages PB 9781350146174 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146198 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350146181 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

Disgraced

Ayad Akhtar New York. Today. Corporate lawyer Amir Kapoor is happy, in love, and about to land the biggest career promotion of his life. But beneath the veneer, success has come at a price. When Amir and his artist wife, Emily, host an intimate dinner party at their Upper East Side apartment, what starts out as a friendly conversation soon escalates into something far more damaging. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Drama, 2013, Disgraced took US audiences by storm in a sold out run in New York before transferring to the Bush Theatre in London in 2013. UK February 2021 • 104 pages PB 9781350146488 • £10.99 ePdf 9781350146495 • £9.89 World All Languages (excluding Canada/USA)

Neaptide

Sarah Daniels A modern story of custody battles, sexual identity and gender politics, framed around the ancient myth of Demeter and her daughter Persephone. Claire is a history teacher at a local school where two teenage girls have come out. Their principal, Bea Grimble, is none too impressed, and aims to have them expelled. Claire, who had been hiding the fact that she is homosexual, speaks up on behalf of the girls: this in spite of the fact that she is fighting her ex-husband Lawrence for custody of their daughter, the precocious and happy Poppy.

Di and Viv and Rose

Amelia Bullmore Aged 18, three women join forces. Life is fun. Living is intense. Together they feel unassailable. Crackling with wisdom and wit, Di and Viv and Rose is a humorous and thoughtful exploration of friendship's impact on life and life's impact on friendship. Di and Viv and Rose charts the steady but sometimes chaotic progression of these three women's lives and their ultimately enduring bonds. The varied journeys of their lives take their toll on the characters, forcing them apart and stretching their relationships with each other to a near breaking point.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 120 pages PB 9781350146136 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146150 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350146143 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

ePub 9781350146501 • £9.89 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

I and You

Lauren Gunderson Housebound because of illness, Caroline hasn’t been to school in months. Confined to her room, she has only Instagram and Facebook for company. That is until classmate Anthony bursts in – uninvited and armed with waffle fries, a scruffy copy of Walt Whitman’s poetry and a school project due the next day… Caroline is unimpressed all around. But an unlikely friendship develops and a seemingly mundane piece of homework starts to reveal the pair’s hopes and dreams - as well as a deep and mysterious bond that connects them even further.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 104 pages PB 9781350146228 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146242 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350146235 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

World English

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 96 pages PB 9781350184893 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184909 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184916 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

Noises Off

Michael Frayn Michael Frayn's irresistible, multi-award-winning backstage farce Noises Off, enjoyed by millions of people worldwide since it premiered in 1982, has been hailed as one of the greatest British comedies ever written. Winner of both Olivier and Evening Standard Awards for Best Comedy, this celebrated play-within-a-play serves up a riotous double bill of comedic craft and dramatic skill. Hurtling along at breakneck speed it follows the backstage antics of a touring theatre company as they stumble through the dress-rehearsal at Weston-super-Mare, then on to a disastrous matinee at Ashton-underLyne, followed by a total meltdown in Stockton-on-Tees.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781350184855 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184862 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184879 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

Radiant Vermin

Philip Ridley Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might find shocking. But they want you to know they did it all for their baby… A wickedly comic satire about a young couple offered a way out of the housing crisis. Playful, provocative and viciously sharp, this outrageous black comedy is a meditation on how far we will go to satisfy our materialistic greed.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 128 pages PB 9781350184817 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184824 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184831 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

Teh Internet is Serious Business

Tim Price A sixteen-year-old London schoolboy and an eighteen-year-old recluse in Shetland meet online, pick a fight with the FBI and change the world forever. Tim Price's brave play, commissioned by the Royal Court Theatre, London, gets behind the code with the original Anonymous members, offering an anarchic retelling of the birth of hacktivism. Teh Internet is Serious Business is a fictional account of the true story of Anonymous and LulzSec, the collective swarm who took on the most powerful capitalist forces from their bedrooms. World English

We are Proud to Present...

Jackie Sibblies Drury I'm not doing a German accent You aren't doing an African accent We aren't doing accents A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the 20th century. As the full force of a horrific past crashes into the good intentions of the present, what seemed a far-away place and time is suddenly all too close to home. Just whose story are they telling? Pulitzer award-winning playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury collides the political with the personal in a play that is irreverently funny and seriously brave.

Rita, Sue and Bob Too

Andrea Dunbar Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling each of them think they control. Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical play, written for the Royal Court Theatre in 1982 when she was just 19, is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising future, both hungry for adult adventure.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 96 pages PB 9781350184961 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184985 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184992 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 96 pages PB 9781350184763 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184756 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184749 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

The Goat, or Who is Sylvia?

Edward Albee On his 50th birthday, Martin, a world-famous architect prepares for a recorded interview by an old friend in the TV business; but in the course of the conversation a secret emerges that threatens to turn celebration to tragedy. Edward Albee's black comedy offers a fascinating look at the limits liberal society can be pushed to, and asks the audience to question their beliefs, to examine their own bigoted views and reconsider their judgement of matters that may or may not be considered socially taboo.

UK February 2021 • 88 pages PB 9781350184770 • £10.99 ePub 9781350184787 • £9.89 ePdf 9781350184794 • £9.89 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama

World English (excluding USA)

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 144 pages PB 9781350146402 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350146426 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350146419 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English

X

Alistair McDowall This is where they send the new, the underqualified, the old. And most of all the British. Mars is full of blonde Americans. It’s like they’re building the master race out there. Billions of miles from home, the lone research base on Pluto has lost contact with Earth. Unable to leave or send for help, the skeleton crew sit waiting. Waiting long enough for time to start eating away at them. To lose all sense of it. To start seeing things in the dark. Alistair McDowall's play X premiered in 2016 and is published here in the Modern Classics series.

UK February 2021 • US February 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781350088443 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350088467 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350088450 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English