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Psychodrama

Matt Wilkinson A gripping revenge play about an actress in her mid-40’s under investigation for the murder of a theatre director, who just happens to have been cast in a new stage adaption of Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho. A whip-smart take on what it means to be middleaged and female in an industry captivated by stardust and beauty�

UK August 2022 • US September 2022 • 56 pages PB 9781350351271 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350351295 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350351288 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Haunting of Susan A

Mark Ravenhill Drawing on the traditions of a classic ghost story, The Haunting of Susan A explores the power of the mind to make the unseen visible and for the cruelty of the past to haunt a room� Described as "a ghost story", the play is inspired by Ravenhill's love of the work of M�R� James and is set in the King’s Head Theatre itself� Through monologue form it explores how trauma from the past can realise itself in the present and the power of the imagination to make the unseen manifest�

UK June 2022 • US July 2022 • 64 pages PB 9781350355323 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350355347 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350355330 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Fellowship

Roy Williams Children of the Windrush generation, sisters Dawn and Marcia Adams grew up in 1980s London and were activists on the front line against the multiple injustices of that time. Decades on, they find they have little in common beyond family��� An electrifying, hilarious, gripping tale set in modern Britain, by award-winning playwright Roy Williams.

UK June 2022 • US July 2022 • 104 pages PB 9781350348417 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350348431 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350348424 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Life of King Henry VIII: All is True

Hannah Khalil You know the story: a King who turns his country upside down to try and secure a male heir� But it’s never been told this way before� See the story of Henry VIII from a female perspective: this exploration of love, lineage and power by Shakespeare's Globe Writer in Resident Hannah Khalil unfolds in a new way�

UK May 2022 • US August 2022 • 120 pages PB 9781350347540 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350347564 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350347557 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Rainer

Max Wilkinson Rainer is a solitary delivery rider, moving across London, delivering food to whoever will summon her. From luxury flats to leafy suburbs, she loves to create stories in her head, re-imagining London as her favourite films. She loves her life. Until reality starts to slip and she begins forgetting stuff – even the city she knows so well� A one-woman show partly inspired by Dylan Thomas’s Under Milkwood, Rainer is a celebration of a city and the people within it, seen and unseen�

UK May 2022 • US June 2022 • 80 pages PB 9781350350922 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350350946 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350350939 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

A Hero of the People

Brad Birch

Everything is going to be fine. That’s what the town’s MP, Mick, thinks� He’s optimistic, positively boosterish about his plan for the town� He just wants the naysayers to pipe down� But there’s a problem� His sister, Dr Rhiannon Powell, has discovered that the project appears to be polluting the town’s water supply� Mick sold the town a story about the future, but what will happen when reality looks to tear that story apart? Brad Birch's bold new reimagining of Ibsen's An Enemy of the People pits the personal against the political and facts against emotion�

UK May 2022 • US June 2022 • 88 pages PB 9781350181885 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350181908 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350181892 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Blood Harmony

Matthew Bulgo A fractured trio of sisters are pulled back together with news that turns their worlds upside down� Tensions from the past and worries about the future leave them feeling paralysed� When it feels like your world has come to a stop, how do you find a way to keep moving forward? Soaring music by Atlantic Records artists The Staves, combines with dynamic movement and bold new writing in this compelling, intimate reflection on grief and the invisible bonds within families.

UK June 2022 • US July 2022 • 104 pages PB 9781350353756 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350353770 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350353763 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Evelyn

Tom Ratcliffe There are a few things that we know about Evelyn: we know what she did, we know that we hate her, and we know that she’s still out there� Somewhere� She’s just not Evelyn anymore� She could be anyone� Even you� Britain is on the hunt, it has been for years� Walton is on high alert… and Sandra’s just arrived� Inspired by real life events, Evelyn is a story of mob justice in modern day Britain that interrogates the question: when is justice really served?

UK May 2022 • US July 2022 • 136 pages PB 9781350351318 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350351332 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350351325 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Folk

Nell Leyshon 1903, Somerset� Rooted in the land where she has lived her entire life, Louie Hooper’s mind overflows with its songs – more than 300 of them passed down from her mother� Cecil Sharp, a composer visiting from London, fears England’s folk songs will be lost forever and sets out on a mission to transcribe each and every one� He believes Louie’s music should speak not just for this place but for the whole of England� Nell Leyshon's Olivier Award-nominated play with songs was originally heard on BBC Radio before a sold-out, highly acclaimed run at London's Hampstead Theatre�

UK June 2022 • US August 2022 • 80 pages PB 9781350356733 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350356757 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350356740 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

In the Weeds

Joseph Wilde Kazumi is hunting a sea monster� Arriving on a remote Hebridean island, he meets Coblaith, a local woman whose family have lived there for generations. When she offers to help him find the mythical creature that he believes drowned his family, their relationship blossoms� But there’s something strange about Cob’s obsessive affection for the lochs and something even stranger about the way the other islanders treat her��� In The Weeds is a gothic thriller that examines our relationship to the land we live on, its heritage and who it belongs to�

UK June 2022 • US July 2022 • 104 pages PB 9781350354722 • £10�99 / $14�95 ePub 9781350354746 • £9�89 / $13�73 ePdf 9781350354739 • £9�89 / $13�73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Misfits

Arthur Miller A story of four lost souls — the beautiful Roslyn who has never belonged to anyone or anything, and three other misfits who roam the open land existing on the little money made from riding in rodeos and rounding up wild horses � Together, they meet in Reno to discover that freedom has its price, and the

heart its rules� Based on a short story of the same name, originally published in 1957, this cinema-novelization of the film includes an introduction by Arthur Miller himself�

UK May 2022 • 128 pages PB 9781350227095 • £12�99 ePub 9781350227101 • £11�69 ePdf 9781350227118 • £11�69 Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market