Below is a list of our plays which are currently showing around the country.
If you know of any professional productions of Methuen Drama plays which we've missed, please email methuendrama@acblack.com
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CAT ON A HOT TIN ROOF
TENNESSEE WILLIAMS
A powerful Southern family gathers at a birthday celebration for patriarch Big Daddy (James Earl Jones), who does not know he is dying of cancer. In a scramble to secure their part of his estate whilst keeping his diagnosis a secret, tensions mount between alcoholic former football hero Brick (Adrian Lester) and his beautiful but sexually frustrated wife Maggie "the Cat". As their troubled relationship comes to a stormy and steamy climax, a shockwave of secrets is finally revealed.
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Location:
NOVELLO
Date:
21 Nov - 10 Apr
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THE MISANTHROPE
MARTIN CRIMP/MOLIERE
Transported from 17th century Paris to modern-day London, Alceste (Damian Lewis) is a famous British playwright disillusioned with the hypocrisy, shallowness and vanity of the contemporary world. Vowing to reject society, Alceste's plans are derailed when he falls madly in love with Jennifer (Keira Knightley). An ambitious American film star and darling of the social scene, she may prove to be his biggest challenge yet.
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Location:
COMEDY
Date:
14 Dec - 13 Mar
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ENRON
LUCY PREBBLE
One of the most infamous scandals in
financial history becomes a theatrical epic. Mixing classical tragedy wiht savage comedy, it reviews the tumultuous 1990's and casts new light on the financial situation we find ourselves in now.
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Location:
NOEL COWARD THEATRE
Date:
15 Jan - 20 Feb
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Peter Hall directs Judi Dench as a Titania based on Elizabeth I.
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Location:
ROSE, KINGSTON
Date:
9 Feb - 20 March
Tel:
0871 230 1552
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Vienna is overrun by a rampant and lucrative sex trade. The duke needs to restore order and so fakes a diplomatic trip away but remains in the city in disguise to see what happens the hardline Angelo takes his place. What follows is a series of shocking revelations, blackmail, sexual scandal and political intrigue.
Michael Attenborough to direct Rory Kinnear, Anna Maxwell Martin and Ben Miles.
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Location:
ALMEIDA
Date:
18 Feb -
Tel:
020 7359 4404
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GHOSTS
IBSEN, VERSION BY FRANK MCGUINNESS
Mrs Alving (Lesley Sharp), is opening
an orphanage in memory of her late husband. However, her plans to forget her husband and his philanthropy go astray with the arrival of her son Osvald...
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Location:
DUCHESS
Date:
23 Feb - 15 May
Tel:
020 7492 1593
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PRIVATE LIVES
NOEL COWARD
Elyot (Matthew MacFadyen) and Amanda (Kim Cattrall) have been divorced for five years. Now both are honeymooning with their new spouses in the South of France. When by chance they meet again across adjoining hotel balconies, their insatiable feelings for each other are immediately rekindled. Without a care for consequences, they hurl themselves headlong into love and lust…
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Location:
VAUDEVILLE
Date:
24 Feb - 4 May
Tel:
0870 830 0200
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LONDON ASSURANCE
DION BOUCICAULT
Sir Harcourt Courtly is lured away from fashionable London by the promise of a
rich, young and beautiful bride, Grace. Arriving at Oak Hall, Gloucestershire, he marvels at this rural Venus until her charms are eclipsed by her hearty cousin, the foxhunting Lady Gay Spanker (Fiona Shaw). Meanwhile his disguised son turns up in flight from his creditors and falls head over heels for Grace. When Lady Spanker discovers the young couple, she needs little prompting from the visiting chancer Dazzle to lead Sir Harcourt astray.
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Location:
OLIVIER
Date:
2 - 22 Mar
Tel:
020 752 3000
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MACBETH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Macbeth is a great tragedy of the imagination. A man and a woman, bound together in ambition are destroyed in a welter of blood. Cheek by Jowl’s latest work conjures a world of witchcraft, ghosts and apparitions in an hallucinatory experience of sound and shadow.
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Location:
SILK STREET
Date:
18 Mar - 10 Apr
Tel:
0207 382 7281
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4.48 PSYCHOSIS
SARAH KANE
4.48am is when the will to live is at its lowest ebb.
A woman in the throes of a terrifying psychological ordeal confronts a series of figures who try to reason with her. Through anger, grief and despair we witness an intense performance in this heroic struggle for life.
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Location:
BARBICAN
Date:
23 - 27 Mar
Tel:
020 7638 8891
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MACBETH
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When three witches tell the general Macbeth that he is destined to occupy the throne of Scotland, he and his wife choose to become the instruments of their fate and kill the virtuous King Duncan.
But to maintain his position, Macbeth must keep on killing...
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Location:
GLOBE
Date:
23 Apr - 27 Jun
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HENRY VIII
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
The Tudor Court is locked in a power struggle between its nobles and the Machiavellian Cardinal Wolsey. Wolsey's ambition knows no bounds and when his chief ally, Queen Katherine, interferes in the King's romance with Ann Bullen, he brings gigantic ruin upon himself, the Queen and centuries of English obedience to Rome.
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Location:
GLOBE
Date:
15 May - 21 Aug
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THE CRUCIBLE
ARTHUR MILLER
Set amid the Salem witch trials, The
Crucible sees a community divided by jealousy and superstition. As witchcraft hysteria takes hold, choices have to be made: conform to survive or uphold your beliefs whatever the consequences. Experience the breathtaking climax as the narrative darkens under the night sky.
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Location:
OPEN AIR THEATRE
Date:
24 May - 19 June
Tel:
0844 826 4242
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A MIDSUMMER NIGHT'S DREAM
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Following its 2009 Roman season, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Theatre returns for its 11th spring season with Shakespeare's most magical play.
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Location:
BRISTOL, TOBACCO FACTORY
Date:
11 Feb - 20 March
Tel:
01179 020 344
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KING LEAR
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Toppled by pride and stripped of all status, King Lear heads into the wilderness with
only a fool and a madman for company.
David Farr directs Greg Hicks with Kathryn Hunter as the Fool.
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Location:
STRATFORD, COURTYARD
Date:
18 Feb - 26 Aug
Tel:
0844 800 1110
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NOISES OFF
MICHAEL FRAYN
It’s the technical rehearsal for a touring production. The director is juggling simultaneous affairs, the leading lady can’t remember her lines, the veteran actor is hitting the bottle, the stage manager is dead on his feet and the matinée idol is worried about his motivation.
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Location:
WOLSEY
Date:
19 Feb - 13 Mar
Tel:
01473 295 900
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OH WHAT A LOVELY WAR
THEATRE WORKSHOP, CHARLES CHILTON, GERRY RAFFLES AND MEMBERS OF THE ORIGINAL CAST
The first national production of the landmark satirical musical since Britain went to war in Iraq. A madcap orchestra of musicians, dancers, singers and clowns come armed with musical ingenuity, bawdy squaddie humour and a collection of well known favourites in fun-filled storytelling with a dark heart.
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Location:
NEWCASTLE, NORTHERN STAGE
Date:
6 - 27 Mar
Tel:
01912 305 151
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ROMEO AND JULIET
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
In the instant of a chance meeting two young people fall in love. Impulsively they marry in secret, but in a divided city their innocent union is threatened by a bloody family feud.
Sam Troughton and Mariah Gale star, under the direction of Rupert Goold.
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Location:
STRATFORD COURTYARD
Date:
12 Mar - 27 Aug
Tel:
0844 800 1110
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THE TEMPEST
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Following its 2009 Roman season, Shakespeare at the Tobacco Factory Theatre
returns for its 11th spring season with Shakespeare's most magical play.
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Location:
BRISTOL, TOBACCO FACTORY
Date:
25 Mar - 1 May
Tel:
01179 020 344
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THE WINTER'S TALE
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Leontes is the man with the perfect life, but he is ill at ease with the world around him. Isolated by jealousy, he lashes out at those closest to him, forcing them away.
Sixteen years later, a love affair sets into motion a chain of events that could eventually reunite this scattered family.
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Location:
COURTYARD, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Date:
31 Mar - 3 Oct
Tel:
0844 800 1110
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AS YOU LIKE IT
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
When two young people fall in love they are unable to act on their impulse. Uncertain of their standing in court and fearing for their lives, Rosalind and Orlando are forced into exile in the Forest of Arden only to become entangled in a beguiling game of love, lust and mistaken identity.
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Location:
COURTYARD, STRATFORD-UPON-AVON
Date:
18 Apr - 3 Oct
Tel:
0844 800 1110
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ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Two charismatic and powerful leaders find
in each other an irresistable and yet
unattainable equal.
Michael Boyd directs Darrell D'Silva and Kathryn Hunter
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Location:
STRATFORD, COURTYARD
Date:
10 Apr - 28 Aug
Tel:
0844 200 1110
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NOISES OFF
MICHAEL FRAYN
On the eve before the opening of the traditional farce, Nothing On, a real life farce develops backstage during the final rehearsal which continues throughout the show’s disastrous tour.
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Location:
BIRMINGHAM REP
Date:
14 May - 15 Jun
Tel:
0121 236 4455
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JULIUS CAESAR
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
A masterpiece of political powerplay and manipulation, Julius Caesar examines the conflict between one man's ambition and the good of the state.
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Location: STRATFORD, COURTYARD
Date:
15 May - 2 Oct
Tel:
0844 800 1110
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TWELFTH NIGHT
WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE
Everyone is looking for love - some in impossible places. Some mourn the love they have lost. Some long for love they are refused. In Illyria love aches and madness rules.
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Location: STRATFORD, COURTYARD
Date:
15 Oct - 21 Nov
Tel:
0844 200 1110
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