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Cover image is from the book Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Play Collection (Methuen Drama, 2023)

The Alchemist

Edited by Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College, The City University of New York, USA

This newly annotated edition of Ben Johnson’s The Alchemist translates and illuminates the play's many pleasures The introduction explores stage and critical history and alchemy while offering students information and guidance to fully understand and enjoy it The play has been widely recognized as one of the most impressive achievements of the period's theatre but it is also notoriously difficult to study. By explaining the play’s alchemical language alongside its context-specific humour, the text is made accessible to students approaching it for the first time, without sacrificing scholarly depth or critical study.

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

PB 9781472532596

• £15 99 / $21 95

• 416 pages • 15

• HB 9781472531995 • £90 00 / $120 00

ePub 9781472534866 • £14 39 / $20 24

ePdf 9781472526250 • £14 39 / $20 24

Series: Arden Early Modern Drama

• The Arden Shakespeare

Multisensory Shakespeare and Specialized Communities

Sheila T. Cavanagh, Emory University, USA

How can Shakespearean performance be used with different communities to assist personal growth and development, while advancing social justice goals?

Employing an integrative approach that draws from science, actor training, therapeutical practices and current research on the senses, this study reveals the work being done by drama practitioners with a range of specialized populations, such as incarcerated people, neurodiverse individuals, those with physical or emotional disabilities, veterans, people experiencing homelessness and many others With insights drawn from visits to numerous international programs, it argues that these endeavors succeed when they engage multiple human senses and incorporate kinesthetic learning

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350296428

• £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350296435

ePdf 9781350296442

Teaching and Learning Shakespeare through Theatrebased Practice

Edited by Tracy Irish, Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Jennifer Kitchen, University of Highlands and University of Glasgow, UK

Provides an overview of theatre-based teaching of Shakespeare and the educational principles underpinning the practice Exploring how and why theatre-based practice in the classroom opens up the possibilities of Shakespeare study, it investigates how different understandings emerge from our experiences of language and culture Drawing on the authors’ range of scholarly experience and practical work, this book empowers educators to support young people to interact critically, creatively and collaboratively with the cultural inheritance of Shakespeare’s texts

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages

PB 9781350292048 • £21 99 / $29 95 • HB 9781350292055 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350292079 £19 79 / $26 99

ePdf 9781350292062 £19 79 / $26 99

The Arden Shakespeare

The Winter’s Tale: Language and Writing

Mario DiGangi, Lehman College and the Graduate Center, CUNY, USA

This book makes The Winter’s Tale accessible and exciting for you by providing expert guidance on understanding, interpreting and writing about Shakespeare’s language It demonstrates that careful attention to Shakespeare’s complex dramatic language can clarify the structure and concerns of the play, as well as provide deep and satisfying engagement with the social, political and ethical questions Shakespeare raises The book examines topics in the play, such as tragicomic genre; women’s assertion of social and political agency; obedience and resistance to rulers; the virtues and risks of festivity, and disputes over the proper forms of religious devotion

UK January 2024 US January 2024 184 pages 1 bw illus

PB 9781350322523 £28 99 / $39 95

• 256 pages

• £67 50 / $91 79

• £67 50 / $91 79

Series: Shakespeare and Social Justice

• The Arden Shakespeare

Arden Shakespeare Intersections

Previously published in HB 9781350175549

ePub 9781350175556 • £58 50 / $79 64

ePdf 9781350175563 • £58 50 / $79 64

Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • The Arden Shakespeare

Farah Karim-Cooper, Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK & Sonia Massai, Lucy Munro & Gordon McMullan, all King's College London, UK

Shakespeare / Nature

Contemporary Readings in the Human and Nonhuman

Edited by Charlotte Scott, The Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK

Offering an expansive exploration of the intersections between the human and non-human worlds, chapters are grounded in close readings of Shakespeare's plays to focus on the rich and persuasive language of nature, both as organic matter and cultural conditioning

Approaching ‘nature’ in all its diversity, contributors approach Shakespeare’s nature through the various lenses of philosophy, historicism, psychoanalysis, gender studies, cosmography, geography, sexuality, linguistics, environmentalism and feminism

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350259836

• 352 pages • 4 bw illus

• £130 00 / $175 00

ePub 9781350259843

ePdf 9781350259850

• £117 00 / $159 29

• £117 00 / $159 29

Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare / Space

Contemporary Readings in Spatiality, Culture and Drama

Edited by Isabel Karremann, University of Zurich, Switzerland

Shakespeare / Space explores new approaches to the enactment of ‘space’ in and through Shakespeare’s plays, as well as to the cognitive, material and virtual spaces in which they are enacted With contributions from 14 leading experts in their fields, the collection forges innovative connections between spatial studies and cultural geography, cognitive studies, phenomenology and the history of the emotions, gender and race studies, rhetoric and language, translation studies, memory studies, theatre history and performance studies

UK March 2024 • US March 2024

HB 9781350282971

• 400 pages • 8 bw illus

• £130 00 / $175 00

ePub 9781350282988

ePdf 9781350282995

• £117 00 / $159 29

• £117 00 / $159 29

Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Adaptation

Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK

Shakespearean Biofiction on the Contemporary Stage and Screen

Edited by Edel Semple, University College Cork, Ireland & Ronan Hatfull, University of Warwick, UK

The first edited collection to explore Shakespeare’s life on modern stage and screen Focusing on the years 1998-2023, it identifies a 25-year trend for depicting Shakespeare and his contemporaries in theatre, film and television Exploring continuities and changes in the form since the release of Shakespeare in Love, it traces these developments through the 21st century With contributions from scholars and practitioners across multiple disciplines, and addressing topics including gender, nation, parody and performance, the collection presents a diverse account of Shakespearean biofiction.

• US December 2023

UK December 2023

HB 9781350359208 • £80 00 / $110 00

ePub 9781350359215 • £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350359222 • £72 00 / $98 54

• 272 pages

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, Adaptation and the Arts

'Cut Him Out in Little Stars'

Edited by Julia Reinhard Lupton, University of California, Irvine, USA & Ariane Helou, UCLA,

USA

Romeo and Juliet is the most produced, translated, and re-mixed of all of Shakespeare’s plays This volume takes up the diverse iconographic, linguistic and performance layers already at work within it and tracks the play’s dispersal into neighboring art forms and geographical locations In Part One chapters explore adaptations ranging across ballet, opera, television, and architecture; in Part Two case studies explore the reception, adaptation and translation of Shakespeare's plays in Mexico, India and Korea and the diverse intents and effects these have had under differing regimes

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 304 pages • 7 bw illus

PB 9781350343429 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350109209

ePub 9781350109216 £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350109223 • £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Lockdown Shakespeare New Evolutions in Performance and Adaptation

Edited by Gemma Kate Allred, University of Neuchatel, Switzerland, Benjamin Broadribb, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK & Erin Sullivan, The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK

Theatre-makers turned to the Shakespearean canon repeatedly during 2020's global pandemic, just as they have over the centuries during times of crisis and historical significance. This collection offers the first in-depth academic analysis and sourcebook for 'lockdown Shakespeare', bringing together both established and new international voices from a range of disciplines Combining scholarly analysis with interviews with theatre-makers and artists discussing their work, this is the definitive work on the evolution and adaptation of Shakespeare online during the COVID-19 pandemic

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 296 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350247840 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350247802

ePub 9781350247819 • £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350247826 • £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Women and Indian Shakespeares

Edited by Thea Buckley, Queen’s University

Belfast, UK, Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK, Sangeeta Datta, Independent filmmaker & Rosa García-Periago, University of Murcia, Spain

This collection of essays explores the multiple ways in which women are, and have been, engaged with Shakespeare in India from the 18th century to the present Uncovering a unique history of women as creators of Shakespeare in an Indian milieu, it spotlights the ways in which women are figured in Indian Shakespeares – as resistant agents, marital seductresses, redemptive daughters, fetishized objects, victims of caste discrimination, conflicted spaces and global citizens.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 320 pages • 12 bw illus

PB 9781350234369 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350234321

ePub 9781350234338 £72 00 / $98 54

ePdf 9781350234345 • £72 00 / $98 54

Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Student Editions

Posh

Laura Wade

Edited by Henry Bell, University of the West of Scotland

The play is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition with commentary and notes by Henry Bell

In an oak-panelled room in a rural Oxford gastropub, ten young undergraduates with cut-glass vowels and deep pockets are meeting, intent on restoring their right to 'rule' Members of The Riot Club, an elite student dining society, the fraternity starts to fray rather when they discover they're a guinea-fowl short and the prostitute they've hired is suddenly banished A spoof on Oxford's notorious Bullingdon Club, Posh is a satirical play about power, politics and privilege, and how these interact within British institutions

UK February 2024 US February 2024 176 pages

PB 9781350235762 £12 99 / $17 95

ePub 9781350235786 • £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350235779 • £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

The Mountaintop Katori Hall

Edited by Harvey Young, Boston College, US

The night before his assassination, Martin Luther King Jr retires to room 306 in the now-famous Lorraine Motel after giving an acclaimed speech to a massive church congregation When a mysterious young maid visits him to deliver a cup of coffee, King is forced to confront his past and the future of his people Portraying rhetoric, hope and ideals of social change, The Mountaintop also explores being human in the face of inevitable death It is published here as a Methuen Drama Student Edition, featuring notes and commentary by Harvey Young, Boston College, US

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 128 pages

PB 9781350187955 • £12 99 / $17 95

ePub 9781350187979 • £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350187962 • £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions Methuen Drama

Revolt. She said. Revolt again

Alice Birch

Edited by Marissia Fragkou, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece

In her award-winning play, Alice Birch examines the language, behaviour and forces that shape women in the 21st century The play asks what's stopping us from doing something truly radical to change them? It is published here in a Student Edition alongside commentary and notes by Marissia Fragkou, who considers the play's political and cultural context (including second- and third-wave feminism, and the #MeToo movement) plus interrogates the play's use of language, form and structure, and how the various productions have been critically received across the world

UK December 2023 US December 2023 96 pages

• £12 99 / $17 95

PB 9781350264403

ePub 9781350264427

ePdf 9781350264410

Adults

Kieran Hurley

Amongst a raft of anonymous Air BnBs in Edinburgh’s New Town, thirty-something Zara is running her own business and trying to make her way in the world A new client has just arrived, but her colleague is running late Tensions are high Oh, and the business is a brothel, the client is her old teacher, and her colleague is having a panic about his fear of the inevitability of ageing Kieran Hurley's ADULTS explores the growing gulf between the generations, the futility of blame culture, and how we need to make things better for those who will come after us

UK August 2023 • US September 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350440296 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350440319 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350440302 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

A Brief List of Everyone Who Died

Jacob Marx Rice

Graciela would really like everyone to stop dying After the scarring loss of her beloved dog Buster at the age of five, Graciela decides that no one she loves will ever die But stopping death is easier said than done Time rolls on inescapably and, as she grows, Graciela will, like everyone else, gain and lose the people most important to her to the eternal absence of mortality Wickedly funny and deeply humane, Jacob Marx Rice's A Brief List of Everyone Who Died tells the story of all the deaths that make up a life

UK May 2023 • US June 2023 • 72 pages

PB 9781350430099 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350430112 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350430105 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Moorcroft

Eilidh Loan

Garry’s turned 50 but doesn’t feel like celebrating Exhausted from years spent wrapped in regret, he begins to relive ‘the glory days' Inspired by true stories, Eilidh Loan's Moorcroft follows a group of young lads in search of an escape from their working class lives But can playing football save them from the challenges they face and make them the men they want to be? With true friendship and the tenacity of working class people at its heart, Moorcroft tackles toxic masculinity in Scotland and asks ‘what is a real man?’

UK July 2023 US August 2023 88 pages

PB 9781350441637 £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350441651 £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350441644 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

• £11 69 / $16 19

• £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

World English

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

My Uncle Is Not Pablo Escobar

Valentina Andrade, Elizabeth Alvarado, Tommy Ross-Williams & Lucy Wray

Young Latinx women from South London stand on stage and dare you to call them invisible Join Ale, Catalina, Lucia and Honey on The Heist as they try to expose one of the biggest banks in the world, challenging injustice and fighting for the representation they deserve My Uncle is Not Pablo Escobar is a formally innovative piece that weaves traditional playwriting with direct action and a live-art aesthetic, capturing the urgency of an activist rally and the celebration of a festival This edition was published to coincide with the Brixton House production in London, June 2023

UK June 2023 • US July 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350423251 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350423275 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350423268 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Salty Irina

Eve Leigh

After a series of racist murders in their European town, Anna and Eireni decide to infiltrate a far-right festival to identify the culprits But when the nature of their relationship is uncovered, their safety is threatened Salty Irina is a coming-of-age story set against the rise of the far-right, about two girls falling in love and fighting Nazis. Shortlisted for the prestigious Bruntwood Prize in 2019, Leigh’s play is an urgent, poetic, kick-ass thriller for queer women This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in August 2023

UK July 2023 • US September 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350435384 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350435407 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350435391 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

The Swell Isley Lynn

Annie is happy at last – she’s engaged to Bel, the love of her life, and counting down the days to their wedding But then old friend, free spirit, and troublemaker Flo turns up unexpectedly, and announces she’ll be staying with them until the big day Their surprise reunion turns into a complicated love triangle with dangerous consequences that threaten to destroy Annie’s

Happily Ever After Isley Lynn's thrilling romantic drama

The Swell is a gripping story spanning decades of love, sacrifice and betrayal, which was shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Playwriting 2020

UK June 2023 US August 2023 88 pages

PB 9781350438835 £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350438859 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350438842 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Retrograde

Ryan Calais Cameron

The Golden Age of Hollywood Behind closed doors, aspiring actor Sidney Poitier is offered a lucrative contract that could make him a superstar But what is he willing to sacrifice? From the writer of award-winning For Black Boys Who Have Considered Suicide When the Hue Gets Too Heavy, Ryan Calais Cameron’s explosive play Retrograde explores identity, resilience, and integrity as it examines a true event in 1950’s Hollywood and the reality of a Black actor’s journey to stardom This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at London's Kiln Theatre, in April 2023

UK April 2023 • US June 2023 • 88 pages

PB 9781350419001 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350419025 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350419018 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

STARS

Mojisola Adebayo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK

Meet Mrs: an old lady who goes into outer space… in search of her own orgasm Her quest is sparked by three encounters: a young neighbour who discloses a secret, an old friend who reveals she is intersex, and a would-be lesbian lover in a launderette who offers Mrs two drops of her own pressed lavender and a smile that says, ‘I handle delicates with care’ STARS is a moving and joyful, sensitive yet funny, Afrofuturist odyssey STARS is the latest play from internationally acclaimed theatre maker, Alfred Fagon award-winner and George Devine Award 2022 finalist, Mojisola Adebayo

UK April 2023 • US May 2023 • 96 pages

PB 9781350411005 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350411029 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350411012 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

An Oak Tree

Tim Crouch

A man loses his daughter to a car accident Nothing now is what it seems It’s like he’s in a play - but he doesn’t know the words or the moves

Tim Crouch’s critically acclaimed play playfully pushes the limits of theatre: a two-hander, where one of the actors walk on stage having neither seen nor read a word of the play they’re in… until they’re in it

UK July 2023 • US August 2023 • 80 pages

PB 9781350437609 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350437616 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350437623 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Beneatha's Place

Kwame Kwei-Armah

1959. The first wave of independence is sweeping across Africa and Beneatha has left the prejudice of 1950s America for a brighter future with her Nigerian husband in Lagos But on the day they move into their new house in the white suburbs, it doesn’t take long for cracks to appear, changing the course of the rest of their lives

Inspired Lorraine Hansberry's ground-breaking modern classic, A Raisin in the Sun, Beneatha’s Place challenges today’s culture wars about colonial history and reckoning with the past

UK June 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781350437999

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350438019

ePdf 9781350438002

• 88 pages

• £9 89 / $13 49

• £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Frank and Percy

Ben Weatherill

Ever seen a couple of old boys on a park bench and wondered what they are chatting about? In his new play Ben Weatherill lets us overhear Frank and Percy as they discuss the weather, then their dogs and then each other and so much more Will the widowed schoolteacher and the elder statesman dare to risk changing their lives or let sleeping dogs lie?

Frank and Percy is a poignant and witty take on the unexpected relationship that blossoms between two men

UK June 2023 • US August 2023

• 80 pages

PB 9781350438798 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350438811 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350438804 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

Idle, They Yammer

Matthew Trevannion

What happens when the stories we inhabit begin to crumble? How can we still manufacture hope in a world that’s falling apart?

Matthew Trevannion's ode to hard graft, a metaphysical conversation between people trapped by the very thing they’ve spent their entire lives building

KING

Pat Kinevane, Playwright/Actor, Ireland

UK May 2023

• US June 2023

• 80 pages

PB 9781350423992 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350424012 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350424005 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama

World English

The Effect

Lucy Prebble

Hearts and minds racing, Connie and Tristan are falling for each other fast But is their sudden and intoxicating chemistry real, or a side effect of a new antidepressant? Lucy Prebble’s funny and intimate examination of love and ethics originally premiered in 2012, becoming an instant modern classic This edition revised and updated edition is published to coincide with the production at the National Theatre, in August 2023

UK August 2023

• US September 2023

PB 9781350439702 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350439719

• £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350439726 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

• 88 pages

KING tells the story of Luther, a man from Cork named in honour of his Granny Bee Baw’s hero, Dr Martin Luther King Jr Luther only leaves his apartment for essential journeys, and to perform as an Elvis impersonator The play explores oppression, privilege, and resilience, as Luther struggles to live life to the full. This is the fifth solo play by Pat Kinevane, following Forgotten, Silent, Underneath, and Before, which are the winners of many international awards, including the Olivier, Helen Hayes, Herald Archangel, and Scotsman Fringe Firsts

UK February 2023 • US March 2023

PB 9781350368798

• 48 pages

• £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350368804

• £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350368811 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Three Poems

Northleigh, 1940; In Stereo; all of it

Alistair McDowall

A woman trapped at home during an air raid

A mother who starts to see double

A whole life in one breath

Three new dramatic poems from award-winning writer Alistair McDowall published to coincide with the run at London's Royal Court Theatre in June 2023

UK June 2023

• US August 2023

• 96 pages

PB 9781350427051 • £12 99 / $17 95

ePub 9781350427068

• £11 69 / $16 19

ePdf 9781350427075 £11 69 / $16 19

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

Plays for Young People

Positive Stories For Negative Times, Volume Three

Six Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely

Tim Crouch, Sara Shaarawi, Bryony Kimmings, Lewis Hetherington, Robert Softley Gale & Leyla

Josephine

Edited by Wonder Fools

Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume Three includes six exciting new plays by some of the best artists working in the UK today written with and for young people Created as part of Wonder Fools' international participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, which has reached over 8000 young people from 16 different countries including UK, South Africa, India, USA, Canada, Italy and Sweden Co-commissioned by Wonder Fools and the Traverse Theatre these six plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 10 to 25

UK June 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350411104 • £21 99 / $29 95

ePub 9781350411128 • £19 79 / $26 99

ePdf 9781350411111 • £19 79 / $26 99

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

World English

Five Children and It

Edith Nesbit

Adapted by Marietta Kirkbride

If you could have one wish what would it be? Sent away to live in the countryside with their reclusive uncle, five children discover a secret that’s been hidden away for centuries: a magical, mischievous but somewhat grouchy Sand Fairy called It with the power to grant spectacular wishes There’s just one catch… Marietta Kirkbride's sparkling take on Five Children and It, the classic story by E Nesbit, is published in Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series which offers suitable plays for young performers and audiences at schools, youth groups and youth theatres

UK June 2023 • US July 2023 • 104 pages

PB 9781350423121 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350423145 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350423138 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama

World English

Our Town Needs a Nando's

Samantha O'Rourke

School is a nightmare, boys are infuriating and maccies is the only place open after 6pm Growing up isn’t easy, but it’s even harder when you are from a place where no one expects anything of you - and especially if you’re queer or the new girl at school

Beth, Rachel, Zahidah, Ellie and Chloe are stuck, stuck in their drama group, stuck in school and stuck in their small town which doesn’t even have a Nando's Our Town Needs a Nando's is written by Samantha O'Rourke, alumni of the Young Everyman Playhouse programme

UK July 2023

• US September 2023

• 80 pages

PB 9781350434615 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350434639 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350434622 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama

World English

The Empress

Tanika Gupta

Through narrative, music and song, The Empress blends the true story of Queen Victoria’s controversial relationship with her Indian servant and ‘Munshi’ (teacher), Abdul Karim, with the experiences of Indian ayahs who came to Britain during the 19th century With private romance being mapped onto world history, the action cuts between the ship and different royal residences, offering bright contrasts as well as surprising affinities. In doing so, the play uncovers remarkable unknown stories of 19th-century Britain and charts the growth of Indian nationalism and the romantic proclivities of one of Britain's most surprising monarchs

UK July 2023 • US August 2023 • 128 pages

PB 9781350428584 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350428591 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350428607 £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama

World English

200 Themes for Devising

Theatre with 11–18 Year Olds

A Drama Teacher’s Resource Book

Jason Hanlan, Colegio Las Candelas, Argentina

Following on from his successful book 200 Plays for GCSE and A-Level Performance, author Jason Hanlan has once again solved one of drama teachers' most frequently encountered problems: how to unlock the best devised performance with their students Here we have a unique resource for drama teachers providing 200 stimuli and ageappropriate individual topics within those to help inspire and guide young people in devising performance Additionally, there is useful information on devising techniques; workshops, schemes and lesson ideas for introducing devising; and guidance on how to analyse the work and give feedback

UK February 2024 US April 2024 192 pages

PB 9781350279636 • £16 99 / $22 95 • HB 9781350279643 • £50 00 / $68 00

ePub 9781350279650 • £15 29 / $21 59

ePdf 9781350279667 • £15 29 / $21 59

Methuen Drama

A spotlight on plays and drama

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In 2019 assessments, 0% of English Literature students answered a question on a play by a Global Majority writer

In 2022 assessments, 90% of drama

set texts available at GCSE English

Literature and 96% at A Level are written by white playwrights

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I, Shakespeare

I, Malvolio; I, Cinna; I, Peaseblossom; I, Banquo; I, Caliban

Tim Crouch

Twelfth Night, Julius Caesar, A Midsummer’s Night Dream, Macbeth, and The Tempest in a way you’ve never seen them before

Featuring an introduction from Crouch that explains the origin of the five plays and their performance processes, the I, Shakespeare collection provides a fresh perspective on some of theatre’s most well-known stories

UK November 2023 • US November 2023

PB 9781350439306 • £19 99 / $26 95

• 144 pages

• HB 9781350439313 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350439320 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350439337 • £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama

World English

Plays from Contemporary Hungary: ‘Difficult Women’ and Resistant Dramatic Voices

Prah, Prime Location, The Dead Man, Sunday Lunch, The Bat

Krisztina Tóth, Janos Hay & György Spiró

Edited by Szilvi Naray, University of Salford, UK

Translated by Szilvi Naray, University of Salford, UK

A unique collection of five contemporary plays from 21st century Hungary, translated into English for the first time.

Written by some of Hungary’s most highly-prolific and commercially successful dramatic voices, these plays are being produced in their native Hungary by theatres that do not adhere to Viktor Orbán's values and offer a counter point to the commercial Boulevard Theatre scene of Budapest

UK February 2024

PB 9781350370722

Decadent Plays: 1890 to 1925

Salome; The Race of Leaves; The Orgy: A Drama Poem; Madame La Mort; Lilith; Ennoïa: A Triptych; The Black Maskers; La Gioconda; Ardiane and the Barbe Bleue or, The Useless Deliverance; Kerria Japonica; The Dove

Edited by Adam Alston, Goldsmiths University of London, UK & Jane Desmarais

Decadent Plays is a selection of some of the most intriguing and challenging examples of Decadent drama, from the late 19th century; witty satire, political drama, transgressive social commentary, mystical meditation, which for many years were banned from being staged in public

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 440 pages

PB 9781350171831 • £29 99 / $40 95 • HB 9781350171824 • £95 00 / $130 00

ePub 9781350171855 • £26 99 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350171848 £26 99 / $36 44

Methuen Drama

World English

Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution

Take the Rubbish Out, Sasha; A Time

Traveller's Guide to Donbas; Pilates Time; Bomb; House of Ghosts Why We Fled Donbas; I Don't Remember the Name; The Mother by Gorky; Tolyk the Diaryman

Natalka Vorozhbyt, Anastasiia Kosodii, Natalia Blok, Andrei Bondarenko, Maksym Kurochkin, Ekaterina Penkova & Olha Matsiupa

Edited by Molly Flynn

Translated by Sasha Dugdale, Jack Clover, Daisy Hayes, Daisy Gibbons, Uilleam Blacker, Olesya Khromeychuk & Nina Murray

In 2013, 2 million Ukrainians took to the streets in defence of democracy and human rights during the Euromaidan Revolution In the months directly following the Revolution, Russia annexed Crimea, and war broke out in the Ukraine’s eastern Donbas region between the Ukrainian army and Russian-backed separatists

• US February 2024

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350370746

ePdf 9781350370753

• 224 pages

• HB 9781350370739 • £75 00 / $100 00

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

World English

• Methuen Drama

Revolutionary Women: A Lauren Gunderson Play Collection

Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight; The Revolutionists; Ada and the Engine; Silent Sky; Natural Shocks

Lauren Gunderson

Edited by Julie Felise Dubiner

Gunderson demonstrates why she has become one of America’s most produced playwrights Weaving together the extraordinary stories of trailblazing women from various eras, Gunderson provides a unique and necessary perspective on modern American feminism, the beautiful humanism of science, and the power of the heartful heroine

UK November 2023

PB 9781350401587

• US November 2023

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350401594

ePdf 9781350401600

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections

World English

• 280 pages

• Methuen Drama

Ukrainian New Drama after Euromaidan brings together key works from the country’s impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, published here in English for the first time.

UK

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Methuen

World

Global Theatre Anthologies: Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora

H.W. Fairman, Duro Ladipo, Tekle Hawariat, Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, Wole Soyinka, Ama Ata Aidoo, Athol Fugard, Derek Walcott & Michael Gilkes

Edited by Simon Gikandi & R. N. Sandberg, Princeton University, USA

The power of theatrical performance is universal, but the style and concerns of theatre are specific to individual cultures. This volume in the Global Theatre Perspectives series presents a reconstructed ancient performance text, four one-act indigenous African plays and five modern dramas from various regions of Africa and the Caribbean Diaspora

UK

PB

Decolonizing the Theatre Space A Conversation

Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway, Kwame Kwei-Armah & Olivia Poglio-Nwabali

This book includes 20 interviews with pioneering Black cultural leaders from a wide range of senior executive positions in the arts within the UK, US and Africa It documents the sea of change in arts leadership post the height of the #Blacklivesmatter movement, the pressure on organizations to confront and change their racial and ethnic make-up, and shines a light on the guiding ambitions, strategic plans and visions for the future to support the ongoing decolonization of arts organizations across the world

UK December 2023

• US December 2023

• 208 pages

PB 9781350205130 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350205123 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350205154 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350205147 • £17 99 / $24 29

Methuen Drama

World English

Acting Professionally

An Essential Career Guide for the Actor

Robert Cohen, University of California, Irvine, USA & James Calleri, New York, USA

Now in its 9th edition, Acting Professionally has become the leading book in the field since it first published in 1972 Filled with practical advice, the book gives a clear understanding of how acting careers are built and sustained It includes an extensive brand new section on the industry to reflect the 21st century, considering the shifting landscape and new opportunities offered Crucially, it reflects the vital changes in the industry as a result of the Black Lives Matter, Time's Up and Me Too movements, as well as the Covid-19 pandemic

The Accidental Producer How Anyone Can Get Their Show on Stage

Tim Johanson

A practical guide to small-scale theatre producing, focusing on exactly what is required to make your show a success It recognises that smaller-scale fringe theatre works differently from the commercial or subsidized sectors, and offers advice on how to embrace that Readers might be creatives with a singular interest in producing, or they might be artists who haven't considered producing as a career, but aren’t getting the jobs they want and have the passion and drive to make the work happen themselves

UK November 2023 • US November 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350338326 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350338333 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350338340 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350338357 • £17 99 / $24 29

Methuen Drama World English

Acting is Your Business How to Take Charge of Your Creative Career

Wendy S. Kurtzman, UCLA, Chapman University and Pace University, USA

While performing arts schools do a great job of teaching students how to act, most don’t teach them how to launch and sustain a career This book addresses this fundamental aspect of the creative journey It delivers a formula based on the syllabus Kurtzman has taught for years, arguing that if acting is your business, you must run it as a business Positioning you as CEO of your own company, it uses a boardroom table as a visual model with 7 key positions, each representing an area of expertise that you must understand and manage to build a successful career

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 240 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350385788 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350385795 • £65 00 / $90 00

ePub 9781350385818 • £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350385801 £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Introductions to Theatre Methuen Drama

What Would Garrick Do? Or, Acting Lessons from the Eighteenth Century

James Harriman-Smith

Across five chapters, this book introduces readers to the eighteenth-century stage and the ideas that governed it before presenting a series of exercises developed in collaboration with professional actors and directors from the period’s vast corpus of writing about acting These exercises can be employed singly or combined into an iterative rehearsal process; they are also open to further adaptation and analysis as part of a work that treats theatre writers of the past as potential collaborators for those interested in theatre today

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350171961

• £24 99 / $34 95

ePub 9781350171985

ePdf 9781350171978

Methuen Drama

• 15 bw illus

• 256 pages

• HB 9781350171954

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £75 00 / $100 00

Theatre and the Threshold of Death

Lectures on the Dying Arts

Kathleen M. Gough

Imagining five artist-mystics as a hierophantic faculty in a mystery school, Gough creates a series of lectures that move in that liminal space between skepticism and knowledge to ask questions about subjectivity, personhood and the necessity of staying in relationship with the unknown world. These figures are: Hildegard of Bingen (1098-1179), the first-known musical composer; Eleanora Duse (1858-1924), the first modern actor in the Western world; Simone Weil (1909-1943), philosopher, activist and mystic; Marina Abramovic (b 1946), “the grandmother of performance art”; and Hilma af Klint (1862-1944), the first-known abstract painter.

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350385511

• 208 pages

• £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350385535

ePdf 9781350385528

• 15 bw illus

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

• Methuen Drama

Series: Thinking Through Theatre

World English

Social Media in Musical Theatre

Trevor

Boffone

This book introduces the relationship between musical theatre and social media in the 21st century as well as methods to study social media’s influence on musicals through three in-depth case studies organized around marketing on YouTube, fan engagement on Twitter, and new musical development on TikTok

UK December 2023 US December 2023 128 pages

PB 9781350358560 • £10 99 / $14 95

ePub 9781350358577 • £9 89 / $13 49

ePdf 9781350358584 • £9 89 / $13 49

Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama

National Identity and the British Musical

From Blood Brothers to Cinderella

Grace Barnes

Through case studies and analysis of British musicals such as Blood Brothers, Cinderella, Half a Sixpence and Billy Elliot, this book examines the place of the British musical within a text-based theatrical heritage and asks what, or whose, Britain is being represented by home grown musicals The sheer number of people engaging with shows bestows enormous power upon the genre and yet critics display a reluctance to analyse the cultural meanings produced by new work, or to hold work to account for production teams and narratives which continue to shun diversity and inclusive practices

UK February 2024 US February 2024 272 pages

PB 9781350243576 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350243538

ePub 9781350243545 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350243552 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Trish Arnold

The Legacy of Her Movement Training for Actors

Lizzie Ballinger, RADA, UK

A unique guide to Trish Arnold's pioneering movement training for actors, focusing on both the context and the practice. As the first and only recorded collection of her work, this book offers the reader a clear and concise explanation of movements developed by Arnold throughout her career and looks at where these came from and how they have been passed on to the next generation of practitioners It documents Arnold's journey into theatre and is supplemented throughout by illustrations of her movements, notes and sketches by Arnold herself, and quotes from her contemporaries

UK November 2023 US November 2023 264 pages 85 bw illus

PB 9781350264557 £25 99 / $35 95 HB 9781350264564 £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350264588

ePdf 9781350264571

Methuen Drama

Contemporary British Musicals: ‘Out of the Darkness’

Edited by Clare Chandler & Gus Gowland

The shortest runs can have the longest legacies: for too long, scholarship surrounding British musical theatre has coalesced around the biggest names, ignoring important works that perhaps aren’t given the critical insights they deserve

Through academic interrogation and industry insight, this unique collection of essays recognizes these works, shining a light on their creative achievements and long legacies Touching on key, hit shows such as SIX, Everybody's Talking About Jamie, The Grinning Man and Bend it Like Beckham, each chapter discusses different theatrical elements, from dramaturgy and musicology to reception

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 240 pages

PB 9781350268036 • £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350268050 • £75 00 / $100 00

ePub 9781350268074 • £22 49 / $31 04

ePdf 9781350268043 • £22 49 / $31 04

Methuen Drama

World English

Women’s Dance Traditions of Uzbekistan

Legacy of the Silk Road

Laurel Victoria Gray, George Washington University, USA

The first comprehensive work in English on the 3 major regional styles of Uzbek women’s danceFerghana, Khiva and Bukhara - and their broader Silk Road cultural connections, from folklore roots to contemporary stage dance

The book surveys their remarkable development from earliest manifestations in ancient civilizations to their hidden life under Islam; and from liberation under Soviet power to a place of pride for Uzbek nationhood. Written by the first American dancer invited to study in Uzbekistan, this book offers insight into the once-hidden world of Uzbek women’s dance

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 192 pages • 11 bw illus

PB 9781350249479 £18 99 / $24 95 HB 9781350249516 £60 00 / $75 00

ePub 9781350249493 £17 09 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350249486 £17 09 / $24 29

Series: Dance in the 21st Century • Bloomsbury Academic

• £23 39 / $32 39

• £23 39 / $32 39

Theatre and Dramaturgy

Zoe Svendsen

What is a dramaturg?

Over the last decade, the role of the dramaturg has become more common in the theatrical process, but it is still a new term for many theatregoers Theatre and Dramaturgy offers a working definition of what dramaturgy means, and asks how understanding theatre from the perspective of dramaturgy can help us understand the world around us

UK October 2023

• US October 2023 • 120 pages

PB 9781350332461 • £9 99 / $12 95

ePub 9781350332485 £8 99 / $12 14

ePdf 9781350332478 £8 99 / $12 14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Theatre and Tourism

Margaret Werry

This volume offers insight into the historical and contemporary entanglement of theatre and tourism, and speculates about the future as emerging technologies reshape both industries, offering new experiences of presence, embodiment, and mobility Theatre and Tourism begins by presenting the concept of the “touristic”, together with a brisk survey of tourism theory and relevant works in performance and theatre studies It then offers three chapters, each contextualizing its central questions with a range of examples from geopolitically diverse sites, before closely reading an example based on original research

UK October 2023

• US October 2023

PB 9781350349957

• £9 99 / $12 95

ePub 9781350349964

• £8 99 / $12 14

ePdf 9781350349971 • £8 99 / $12 14

Series: Theatre And • Methuen Drama

• 136 pages

Theatre and the USA

Charlotte Canning, University of Texas at Austin

How is the individual and the ‘nation’ constructed and promoted in American theatre? How does theatre enable a nation to invent and reinvent itself?

Who are the ‘people’ in ‘We the People’?

This brief study examines the intersection of the USA’s sense of self with its theatre, revealing how the two have an entangled history and a shared identity

UK October 2023

• US October 2023 • 112 pages

PB 9781350332775

• £9 99 / $12 95

ePub 9781350332799 • £8 99 / $12 14

ePdf 9781350332782 • £8 99 / $12 14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Theatre and Travel

Fiona Wilkie

Theatre and Travel aims to persuade you that it is impossible to untether both the history and the contemporary experience of theatre from travel, and invites you to think about both the effects that travel has on theatre and the effects that theatre, because of its travels, can have on our understanding of the world

The volume poses a number of questions: what is the relationship between touring and other kinds of theatre work? How should theatre circulate, and how are we to understand this circulation? What impact do touring routes and agendas have beyond the dissemination of what’s on stage? What frictions sometimes hinder theatre’s travels? Whose travel stories get told within the theatre, and by whom?

UK October 2023 • US October 2023

PB 9781350331259 • £9 99 / $12 95

ePub 9781350331273

ePdf 9781350331266

• 112 pages

• £8 99 / $12 14

• £8 99 / $12 14

Series: Theatre And Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA & Anja Hartl, University of Innsbruck, Austria

Theatre and its Audiences

Reimagining the Relationship in Times of Crisis

Kate Craddock, GIFT: Gateshead International Festival of Theatre, UK & Helen Freshwater, Newcastle University, UK

Written in the aftermath of the Covid-19 crisis, this book brings the past, present and future of theatregoing together as it explores the nature of the relationships between performance practitioners, arts organisations and their audiences

The book combines historical and current cultural sector perspectives as it reflects on how historical conventions have conditioned present day expectations of theatre-going in the UK Part vision, part provocation, part critical interrogation, this book offers an insightful appraisal of past norms and assumptions to set out a bold argument about where we should go from here

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

PB 9781350339170

• £19 99 / $26 95

• 240 pages

• HB 9781350339163

ePub 9781350339187 £17 99 / $24 29

ePdf 9781350339194 £17 99 / $24 29

• £65 00 / $90 00

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

Methuen Drama

Theater in a Post-Truth World Texts, Politics, and Performance

Edited by William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA

This is the first book to examine how the concept and disagreements around post-truth have been explored in the world of theater and performance

With contributions by scholars from around the world, Theater in a Post-Truth World considers a wide array of examples from American and British drama and politics, Australian theater, and the work of performance artist Marina Abramovic Together these provide a glimpse into how the theater in its many forms provides a venue to raise awareness and encourage critical thinking about the contemporary ubiquity of post-truth

UK February 2024

PB 9781350215894

• US February 2024

• £28 99 / $39 95

• 240 pages

Previously published in HB 9781350215856

ePub 9781350215863

ePdf 9781350215870

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

• Methuen Drama

Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Jen Harvie, Queen Mary University of London, UK

The Theatre and its Double Antonin

Artaud

Edited by Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK

Translated by Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK

This new translation of Artaud's canonical text from 1938 retains the idiosyncratic nature of some of the author's writing while communicating the fervour and ambition that it contained Translated into a contemporary English that accurately conveys the detail and impact of the original, this is the first English-language version of The Theatre and its Double to be at once faithful to the original and more easy for today's readers to understand A welcome addition any theatre-lover's or student's bookshelf, this is a much-needed opportunity to gain clear and faithful insights into Artaud's theatre

UK February 2024 • US February 2024

PB 9781350288713

• £15 99 / $19 95

ePub 9781350288737

ePdf 9781350288744

• 280 pages

• HB 9781350288720

• £14 39 / $20 24

• £14 39 / $20 24

Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Engage

Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK & Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, USA

Spectatorship and the Real in French Contemporary Theatre

Amélie Mons

• £45 00 / $61 00

This book explores how avant-garde directors in French theatre play on their audiences’ frustration to generate an encounter with the real Focusing on directors such as Gisèle Vienne, Jan Lauwers, Rodrigo Garcia, Jan Fabre and Romeo Castellucci, it looks at how they manipulate their audiences to experience a raw perception of materiality on stage set within narratives of mystery and the uncanny It examines how directors implement strategies on stage to trigger such experiences, while evaluating how problematic they can be It develops critical and philosophical tools to help spectators better engage with these contemporary practices

UK February 2024 • US February 2024 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350300835 £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350300842 £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350300859 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Postdigital Performances of Care Technology & Pandemic

Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK & Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK

A timely examination of the survival instinct of practitioners and audiences engaged in theatremaking and theatre-going in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic This book explores the paradoxical tension that has emerged between a disenchantment with digital technologies and the increasing reliance on online modes of practice. It identifies blindspots and ethical dilemmas that the shift to online and technologized practices may be engendering by assessing performances from emerging theatre-makers and participatory online theatre productions Performances discussed include Thaddeus Phillips’ Zoom Motel, Handle with Care and Tania El Khoury’s As Far As Isolation Goes

UK January 2024

• US January 2024

HB 9781350272101

• 144 pages

• £50 00 / $61 00

ePub 9781350272125

ePdf 9781350272132

• £45 00 / $62 09

• £45 00 / $62 09

Series: Performance and Digital Cultures

• Methuen Drama

The Art Gallery on Stage New Vistas on Contemporary British Playwriting

Mariacristina Cavecchi

In the first book to consider the representation of the art gallery on the contemporary British stage, we come to see how the art gallery has interacted with the contemporary British stage in the last four decades, whether as inspiration, location, focus or theme in an evermore intense game of cross-fertilization We come to understand how modern drama can offer a set of interpretative tools to enhance our understanding of the mechanisms underlying the social construction of art and, furthermore, the potential of theatre and the gallery space to question our fundamental cultural assumptions and values

UK March 2024 • US March 2024 • 272 pages • 25 bw illus

HB 9781350330702 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350330726 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350330719 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama

Postdramatic Theatre and India

Theatre-Making Since the 1990s

Theatre with a Purpose

Amateur Drama in Britain 1919-1949

Don Watson, Independent scholar

This is the first book to offer a sustained focus on the amateur theatre movement in Britain from the end of WWI to the end of WWII, a movement that flourished and led to more people in Britain involved in drama than at any time before or since It reveals how it was promoted as a tool for social action and improvement and evaluates its success and legacy By surveying the contribution of key individuals, organisations and the role of festivals and competitions, this book provides a comprehensive account of this transformative movement and period

UK February 2024

• US February 2024

HB 9781350232044 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350232051

ePdf 9781350232068

• 6 bw illus

• 224 pages

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance Methuen Drama

Ashis Sengupta, University of North Bengal, India

None of the Indian theatre-makers consciously built their works on the Euro-American model of the postdramatic, but many have used the theatre model in innovative, transnational ways Essentially, they have adapted an originally European theatre paradigm to a different historical context and added new dimensions to it by crosspollinating it with indigenous cultural forms This book balances theory, contextualisation and praxis, building a hitherto non-existing archive of scholarship in Indian theatre within a postdramatic framework and an argument for its place within contemporary Indian theatre Interspersed throughout are Indian theatre-makers’ opinions about their contemporary performance theory and practices

UK July 2023 • US September 2023 • 216 pages

PB 9781350284395 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350154087

ePub 9781350154094 £26 09 / $36 44

ePdf 9781350154100 • £26 09 / $36 44

Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Holocaust Memory and Youth Performance

Erika Hughes, University of Portsmouth, UK

The first critical examination of youth-focused plays and performances about the Holocaust, this volume considers works by young authors as well as pieces taken from the diaries and memoirs of children and adolescents who experienced the Holocaust While youth-focused plays about the Holocaust have been in the repertories of top professional companies throughout the world for decades and are often performed in theatres, schools and community centers, they are frequently neglected in studies of Holocaust theatre Hughes fills this gap by examining plays, musicals, performances, scripts, performative museum installations and pedagogically-focused works of applied theatre for young audiences

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 256 pages • 6 bw illus

HB 9781350263338 • £85 00 / $115 00

ePub 9781350263345 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350263352 £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Identity, Culture, and the Science Performance, Volume 1

From the Lab to the Streets

Edited by Vivian Appler, University of Georgia, USA & Meredith Conti, University at Buffalo, SUNY, USA

The first of two volumes dedicated to the diverse sociocultural work of science-oriented performance A dynamic volume of scholarly essays, interviews with scientists and artists, and creative entries, it examines explicitly public-facing science performances that operate within and for specialist and non-specialist populations The book’s chapters variously trace the theatrical and ethical contours of live science events, reenact historical stagings of scientific expertise, and demonstrate the pedagogical and activist potentials in performing science in community settings

• 9 bw illus

UK March 2024

• US March 2024

• 280 pages

PB 9781350234116 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350234062

ePub 9781350234079 • £76 50 / $103 94

ePdf 9781350234086 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Methuen Drama

The Methuen Drama Handbook of Gender and Theatre

Edited by Sean Metzger, University of California, Los Angeles, USA & Roberta Mock, University of Plymouth, UK

A guide to contemporary debates and practices at a time when gender paradigms are both in flux and at the centre of explosive political battlegrounds This volume examines how critical discourses on gender intersect with key debates in the field of theatre studies, as a lens to illuminate the practices of gender and theatre as well as the societies they inform and represent across space and time Featuring a series of essential research tools, including an annotated play list, this is an indispensable scholarly handbook for anyone working in theatre and performance

UK January 2024 US January 2024 576 pages 35 bw illus

HB 9781350123175 • £130 00 / $175 00

ePub 9781350123182 • £117 00 / $159 29

ePdf 9781350123199 • £117 00 / $159 29

Series: Methuen Drama Handbooks • Methuen Drama

A Cultural History of Tragedy in Antiquity

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Middle Ages

Edited by

Emily Wilson, University of Pennsylvania, USA

Covering the period from 500 BCE to 1000 AD, this volume examines tragedy in antiquity, from its misty origins in Greece, through its central position in the civic life of ancient Athens and its performances across the Greek-speaking world, to its instantiations in Republican and Imperial Roman contexts

Lively, original essays by eminent scholars trace the shifting dramatic forms, performance environments, and social meanings of tragedy as it was repeatedly reinvented

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 232 pages • 36 bw illus

PB 9781350416529 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781474287890

ePub 9781350154889 • £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350154872 • £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Early Modern Age

Edited by Jody Enders, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, Theresa Coletti, University of Maryland, USA, John T. Sebastian, Loyola Marymount University, USA & Carol Symes, University of Illinois, USA

Spanning the period from 1000 to 1400, the 8 essays in this volume offer a blueprint for future study as they take up the extensive but much-neglected medieval engagement with tragic genres, modes, and performances from the vantage points of gender, politics, theology, history, social theory, anthropology, philosophy, economics, and media studies

UK September 2023

• US September 2023 • 240 pages • 19 bw illus

PB 9781350416765 • £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781474287906

ePub 9781350154940 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350154957 £67 50 / $91 79

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Enlightenment

Edited by

Naomi Conn Liebler, Montclair State University, USA

Covering the period between 1400 and 1650, this volume includes eight lively, original essays which trace the kaleidoscopically shifting dramatic forms, performance contexts, and social implications of tragedy throughout the Early Modern period and across geographic, political, and social references

They attend not only to the familiar cultural lenses of English and mainstream Continental dramas but also to less familiar European exempla from Croatia and Hungary

UK September 2023

PB 9781350416789

• US September 2023

• £25 99 / $35 95

Previously published in HB 9781474287968

ePub 9781350155008 £67 50 / $91 79

ePdf 9781350155015 £67 50 / $91 79

• 224 pages • 16 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Age of Empire

Edited by Michael Gamer, University of Pennsylvania, USA & Diego Saglia, University of Parma, Italy

Covering the period from 1800 to 1920, this volume traces the metamorphoses of tragedy in Western cultures during the bourgeois age of nations, revolutions, and empires, roughly defined by the French Revolution and the First World War Its narrative focuses on hybridization extending across media, genres, demographics, faiths both religious and secular, and national boundaries

The essays also tell a story of how tragedy and the tragic offered multiple means of capturing the increasingly fragmented perception of reality and history that emerged in the 19th century

UK September 2023

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series

• 216 pages

• 33 bw illus

• Bloomsbury Academic

Edited by Mitchell Greenberg, Cornell University, USA

Covering the period between 1650 and 1800, this volume is bookended by two shockingly similar historical events: the beheading of a king, Charles I of England in 1649 and Louis XIV of France in 1793 This volume examines the way in which tragedy, which had dominated the European stage at the beginning of this period of enormous political, social and economic changes, gradually saw itself replaced by new literary forms, culminating in the gradual decline of theatrical tragedy from the heights it had reached in the 1660s

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 248 pages • 40 bw illus

PB 9781350416796

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ePdf 9781350155091

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series • Bloomsbury Academic

A Cultural History of Tragedy in the Modern Age

Edited

by Jennifer Wallace, Peterhouse College, University of Cambridge, UK

Covering the period from 1920 to the present, this volume considers the degree to which the definitions, forms and media of tragedy were transformed in the modern period and how far the tragic tradition still spoke to 20th- and 21st-century challenges

While theater remains the primary focus, the essays also cover tragic representation in film, art and installation, photography, fiction and creative non-fiction, documentary reporting, political theory and activism. It also reflects increasing globalization, including intercultural encounters, various forms of hybridity, and postcolonial tragic representations

UK September 2023 • US September 2023

PB 9781350416819

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ePub 9781350155114

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• 232 pages • 39 bw illus

Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic

Cultural Histories Now Available in Paperback

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A Cultural History of Tragedy

6-Volume Set

Edited by Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA

"A highly contemporary work, alert to politics, social theory and sexuality " London Review of Books

This set of six volumes spans 4,500 years of tragedy in its physical, social and cultural context

Each richly illustrated volume discusses the same themes in its 8 chapters: Forms and Media; Sites of Performance and Circulation; Communities of Production and consumption; Philosophy and Social Theory; Religion, Ritual and Myth; Politics of City and Nation; Society and Family, and Gender and Sexuality

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 6 vols • 1,824 pages • 200 bw illus

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Series: The Cultural Histories Series Bloomsbury Academic Also available as individual volumes

NEW IN PAPERBACK! Also available as individual volumes

A Cultural History of Disability

6-Volume Set

Edited by David Bolt, Liverpool Hope University, UK & Robert McRuer, George Washington University, USA

Examines 2,500 years of disability from a wide range of perspectives, including history, literary studies, education and cultural studies

With chapters written by leading scholars in the field of disability studies, this six-volume set charts changing cultural attitudes to disability, from antiquity and the medieval age, through the Renaissance and the long nineteenth century to the modern era Each volume covers the same major themes throughout, allowing researchers to trace through history such topics as: atypical bodies; mobility impairment; chronic pain and illness; blindness; deafness; speech; learning difficulties; and mental health.

UK January 2024 • US January 2024 • 6 vols • 1,376 pages • 200 bw illus

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