The Methuen Drama One-Act Play Collection

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The Methuen Drama One-Act Play Collection includes a selection of scripts offering some of the newest, most exciting short plays by up-and-coming playwrights.The collection incorporates plays ranging from snapshot monologues to more extended pieces. The scripts are grouped into three sections according to their scale. They cater for the small cast as well as for the bigger group, offering a variety of styles, themes and genres. Each play offers the reader or performer an engaging and illuminating miniature piece of theatre. The collection features an introduction by editor Jack Bradley.

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'An excellent idea -with real international market value.' * Geoff Colman, Head of Acting, Central School of Speech and Drama *
'I'd use the book. The one act play is an acting/directing/design teacher's salvation:a complete story arc with a specific style that defines relationship in a palpable world. Fundamental educational questions and challenges are captured without compromise in the one-act play format but with the significant gift of being time friendly so that a diversity of voices can be easily appreciated within the constraints of a single class or project.' * David Feldshuh, Professor of Theatre at Cornell University and Artistic Director of the Schwartz Center *
'I consider a good one-act play as the personification of what good art is really about' * Alan Ayckbourn *
'Some of our finest dramatists, Pinter among them, have found subtlety, richness, depth and, yes, size in the one-act form' * Benedict Nightingale, The Times *
'The one-act play is one of the neglected jewels of the theatre' * Sheila Hancock *

Author Bio

Jack Bradley was Literary Manager of the National Theatre from 1995 to 2007. There he advised on the repertoire for Richard Eyre, Trevor Nunn and finally Nick Hytner, specialising in the development of New Writing. Since then he has worked as a freelance dramaturg and playwright. He is currently Literary Associate to Sonia Friedman Productions in the West End and an Associate at the Tricycle Theatre where he commissioned and curated The Great Game.