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Student Editions

Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK, Chris Megson, Matthew Nichols, Head of Drama, Manchester Grammar, UK & Sara Freeman

Emilia

Morgan Lloyd Malcolm

Edited by Elizabeth Schafer

Living at a time when women had such limited opportunities, Emilia Bassano (1569 - 1645) - poet, teacher and feminist - is a fascinating subject for this speculative history In presenting her story, Morgan Lloyd Malcolm presents the story of women everywhere whose narratives have been written out of history Originally commissioned for Shakespeare's Globe with an all-female cast, Emilia is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary & notes by Professor Elizabeth Schafer, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 184 pages

PB 9781350200258 • £12 99 / $17 95 ePub 9781350200272 • £11 69 / $16 19 ePdf 9781350200265 • £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

Sweet Bird of Youth

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Alison Walls

Offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1959 classic about ageing movie star and her ambitious companion This new edition includes an introduction by Alison Walls, that explores the play's production history; political, cultural and social context; Williams's dramatic style and use of language, as well as the dramatic, thematic, and academic debates that surround it An essential edition of anyone studying the play or Williams's work more widely

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350238022 • £9 99 ePub 9781350238046 • £8 99 ePdf 9781350238039 • £8 99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Wonderful World of Dissocia

Anthony Neilson

Edited by anna six, University of Warwick, UK

This Student Edition of Neilson's magical and moving play,The Wonderful World of Dissocia, features an introduction and notes by anna six It introduces students to debates surrounding mental health and situates Neilson within a British theatrical tradition It also includes an interview with the playwright

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

• 128 pages

PB 9781350200975 £12 99 / $17 95 ePub 9781350200999 £11 69 / $16 19 ePdf 9781350200982 £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions

• Methuen Drama

Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Benjamin Hudson, Rollins College, USA

The commentary in this Student Edition delves into contemporary productions of the play, as well as probing major themes, including illness and mortality; white supremacy; mendacity and 'fake news'; alcoholism and addiction; as well as sexuality, womanhood and mid-century masculinity It looks at context, including the cultural, social and political landscape of the Mississippi Delta and St Louis; the first-hand witnessing of Black life in the South; homosexuality and outsider sympathy; and American conservatism and the 1950s family It offers an invigorating, contemporary take on Williams's seminal 1955 play and is ideal for teachers, lecturers and students

UK August 2023 • 168 pages

PB 9781350237988 • £9 99 ePub 9781350238008 • £8 99 ePdf 9781350237995 • £8 99

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

The Glass Menagerie

Tennessee Williams

Edited by Daniel Ciba, Ramapo College of New Jersey, USA

This revised Student Edition of Tennessee Williams's classic play includes an introduction by Daniel Ciba, which looks in particular at the play as a piece of realism or experimentalism and through the lens of Queer Identity It also discusses recent notable productions and adaptations of the play from across the world

UK August 2023 • 136 pages

PB 9781350108981 £8 99 ePub 9781350108998 £8 09 ePdf 9781350109001 £8 09

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Best of Enemies

James Graham

Winner of the 2022 Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play

1968 – a year of protest that divided America

As two men fight to become the next President, all eyes are on the battle between two others: the cunningly conservative William F Buckley Jr , and the iconoclastic liberal Gore Vidal Little do they know they’re about to open up a new frontier in American politics, and transform television news forever…

An electric new play by James Graham (Quiz, Labour of Love), directed by Jeremy Herrin, inspired by the documentary by Morgan Neville and Robert Gordon�

UK November 2022 US February 2023 112 pages

PB 9781350381261 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350381278 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350381285 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Conversations After Sex and Trade

Mark O'Halloran

Multiple award-winning Mark O’Halloran is one of Ireland’s most celebrated writers Two plays spanning 12 years of work come together in one published edition to coincide with the New York premiere in January 2023

Both Conversations after Sex and Trade speak to our vulnerability and innate need to communication and connection in an isolated world

UK January 2023 US March 2023 136 pages

PB 9781350398511 £11 99 / $15 95 ePub 9781350398535 £10 79 / $14 84 ePdf 9781350398528 • £10 79 / $14 84

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Cornelia Street

Simon Stephens & Mark Eitzel

In a back street in the West Village, Jacob Towney tries to save the restaurant that has been his home for longer than he can remember and release his daughter to the life he dreams she can have His place is a home for the odd ghosts of the village It is out of place and out of time and running out of luck

A new musical by Tony Award-winner Simon Stephens and acclaimed singer/songwriter Mark Eitzel

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350401464 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350401488 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350401471 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Elephant

Anoushka Lucas

A piano came through the sky and landed in Lylah’s council flat, just for her. As she pours over the keys and sound floods into all the rooms, Lylah falls in love

Part gig, part piano lesson, part journey through Empire – Elephant is a powerful new play from Anoushka Lucas

UK October 2022

• US December 2022

PB 9781350381704

• £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350381711 ePdf 9781350381728

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 64 pages

Graceland

Ava Wong Davies

Nina meets Gabriel at an old friend’s barbecue, ketchup dribbling down her chin, face ruddy from too much beer He stands away from everyone else, beautiful and aloof Their stories couldn’t be more different, but they flirt, and then they fall in love Everything is perfect, until it isn’t Or maybe it never was Graceland is a new one-woman play from Ava Wong Davies, complicated in its depiction of love and harm in the familial and romantic relationships of protagonist Nina, a twenty-something British-Chinese woman living in London

UK February 2023

• US March 2023 • 72 pages

PB 9781350409279 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350409293 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350409286 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Hakawatis

Women of the Arabian Nights

Hannah Khalil

A tyrant revenges his wife’s infidelity by wedding, bedding and beheading a new bride every day Years later, only five brides-in-waiting remain...

This fearless new play examines the unifying power of storytelling as ancient tales are reclaimed, rewritten and reimagined by Globe Resident Writer, Hannah Khalil

UK December 2022

• US January 2023

PB 9781350381568 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350381575 £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350381582 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 80 pages

If These Wigs Could Talk & Haunted

Tara Flynn & Panti Bliss

Two new hilarious confessional plays from giants of Irish comedy and politics exploring lives in contemporary Ireland

If These Wigs Could Talk meets Panti, a drag queen at fifty-three, after a lifetime of showbiz, shenanigans and making a show of herself, taking this moment to question what her purpose and place in the world is now

What happens when you hit the floor and lose all of your marbles? Ask Tara Flynn in Haunted: a fame-adjacent actor turned advocate for the campaign to Repeal Ireland’s Eighth Amendment

UK November 2022 • US December 2022 • 96 pages

PB 9781350383142 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350383166 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350383159 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

In the Net

Misha Levkov

Laura and Anna, half-sisters, plan a grand net stretching across the skyline of North London to unite their community But not everyone’s convinced Meanwhile Hala, a Syrian refugee staying with the family, finds herself caught in a tangle of immigration red tape With time running out, drought spreading, and the authorities closing in, the net becomes their arena in the pursuit of justice, joy and safety Misha Levkov’s stunning debut interweaves its characters as delicately as the web they weave on stage This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Jermyn Street Theatre, January 2023

UK January 2023

• US February 2023

PB 9781350386594

• £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350386617 ePdf 9781350386600

• 104 pages

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Pick N Mix

Kat Rose-Martin

When Olivia, Kim and Alisha all take a fancy to the same local lad, friendships and families are torn apart Lies are told, secrets are spilled and their lives are about to change forever Pick N Mix is a coming of age story of sisterhood, Sex Ed and sanitary pads A humorous and touching debut play from writer Kat Rose-Martin exploring female friendships, sexuality, and teen pregnancy for three working-class girls in Bradford

UK November 2022

PB 9781350381940

• US December 2022

• £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350381964 ePdf 9781350381957

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• 88 pages

Sound of the Underground

Travis Alabanza & Debbie Hannan

Out to the electric night, where the base line jumps in the backstreet light and the beat goes round and round Legends of the London Queer club scene come out from under the gutter Expect punk, profanity and a fierce fight about workers’ rights written by Travis Alabanza and co-created and directed by Debbie Hannan Sound of the Underground spotlights London’s iconic underground club culture and questions what it means to get your money’s worth when it comes to art This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Royal Court, London, in January 2023

UK January 2023 US March 2023 96 pages

PB 9781350406230 £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350406254 ePdf 9781350406247

Series: Modern Plays

World English

Iphigenia in Splott

Gary Owen

Stumbling down the street drunk at 11.30am Effie is the kind of girl you avoid making eye contact with You think you know her, but maybe you don’t know half of it

Gary Owen’s critically acclaimed and powerful monodrama inspired by the Greek myth won the Best New Play at the UK Theatre Awards 2015

UK September 2022 US November 2022 88 pages

PB 9781350372610 £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350372627 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350372634 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Ruckus

Jenna Fincken

A loving relationship can be anything but In this one-woman thriller, Ruckus explores coercive control, an issue not widely recognised - yet its side effects kill up to three women every week in the UK Each moment of the play, seen through 28-yearold school teacher Lou's eyes, has been inspired by real women and real stories Acclaimed by critics and audiences, Ruckus was the 1st Finalist for the Popcorn New Writing Award 2022, shortlisted for The Filipa Bragança Award, and winner of a Lustrum Award during its original run at Edinburgh Fringe in August 2022

• US November 2022

UK October 2022

PB 9781350380172

• £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350380189 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350380196 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 64 pages

The Dry House

Eugene O'Hare

Three Irish woman Booze, family, bravery A timely metaphor for Irish political situation, while also suggesting the possibility of hope at the end of years of appalling self-destruction

An uncompromising new Irish play from acclaimed writer and director Eugene O'Hare

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

• Methuen Drama

UK March 2023

• US May 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350406520 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350406544 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350406537 • £9 89 / $13 49

• Methuen Drama

Series: Modern Plays

World English

The New Musketeers

Dannie Harris, Matthew Howell, Jack Michael Stacey & Sean Turner

The World’s Greatest Swordsmen… are not in this play A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers… sort of When the famous Musketeers are lost in a shipwreck on a routine mission across the channel, their hapless servants are left with no masters and an important mission to complete The New Musketeers features brilliant original music written by Dannie Harris, with terrible sword fighting and a hilarious cast of characters. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at Trinity Theatre, Tunbridge Wells, in December 2022

UK December 2022

• US January 2023 • 120 pages

PB 9781350386150 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350386174 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350386167 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Trouble in Butetown

Diana Nneka Atuona

In her illegal boarding house in Butetown, Cardiff, Gwyneth Mbanefo toils tirelessly to keep afloat.

It’s a port town during the war; home to souls from every corner of the globe When Nate, an African American GI, escapes his barracks and discovers this new world without segregation, can he find safe harbour? And with danger on every corner, who can he trust? A pressing new play from the Alfred Fagon award-winning playwright,

Diana Nneka Atuona

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781350386235 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350386259 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350386242 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Wanderers

Anna Ziegler

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews; Abe and Julia are high-profile celebrities. On the surface, the lives of these two couples couldn’t be more different... but are they?

Anna Ziegler’s funny, insightful, and mysterious new drama explores the hidden connections between seemingly disparate people, drawing audiences into an intriguing puzzle and a deeply sympathetic look at modern love

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350398559 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350398573 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350398566 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Bubble

Kieran Hurley

What happens when a male lecturer calls a female student a slut? A provocative, dynamic and original play by award-winning writer Kieran Hurley, set entirely on Facebook and written in both text and emojis

Originally commissioned and developed as a stage play as part of The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland’s MA Classical and Contemporary Text Programme with support from the Playwrights’ Studio, this play was streamed by 195,000 people online and watched in 32 countries

UK December 2022

PB 9781350398382

• US January 2023

• £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350398405

• £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350398399 £9 89 / $13 49

• 48 pages

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

Moonset

Maryam Hamidi

Fifteen-year-old Roxy is burning Lost somewhere between the bonfire of girlhood and the sharp edge of womanhood, she gathers her friends and begins meddling in witchcraft to search for answers Shadows are lurking, ready to swallow those she loves most in the world. As friendships fray, fire crackles and blood bubbles, the group unravel the bonds that unite and the secrets that surround them Maryam Hamidi's Moonset is a blazing, coming-of-age tale filled with love, rage and self-discovery, as four young women search for the power they were promised

UK February 2023 • US March 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350405196 • £10 99 / $14 95 ePub 9781350405219 • £9 89 / $13 49 ePdf 9781350405202 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

The Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts

Phoenix Rising; Knife Edge; Bullet Tongue (Reloaded); The Ballad of Corona

V; Redemption

David Watson, Andy Day, Sonia Hale & James Meteyard

Edited by The Big House

A celebration of the last decade of work and play by a unique theatre company, featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature

This collection is perfect for students and young people looking for performance materials, or for plays that are centered around underrepresented POVs

UK June 2023

• US June 2023

PB 9781350359741

• 368 pages

• £24 99 / $34 95 ePub 9781350359758 • £22 49 / $31 04 ePdf 9781350359765 • £22 49 / $31 04

Methuen Drama

World English