Drama & Performance Studies New Books October-December 2025
DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES
New Books
October-December 2025
Plays written by writers of colour for 11-18 year-olds to study and perform
Can you recommend a further 60 plays by writers of colour that my students can explore in the classroom? Yes, we can
This question posed to us by a secondary school teacher remains at the heart of all we do in the Lit in Colour campaign.
This second (Incomplete) Play List is filled with more powerful stories, fascinating characters and varieties of lived experiences so students can discover the creativity, rewards and relevance they offer.
The Play List recommends plays for Key Stages 3, 4 and 5 with every play exploring a range of themes and concerns, all of which are representative of topics and issues that affect students today. With content warnings, themes and signposts to additional teaching resources, this List helps teachers to introduce any of these plays into secondary school classrooms.
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Arden Performance Companions
Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK & Michael Dobson & Simon Russell Beale
Shakespeare and Brecht
A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers
Stephen Unwin, Theatre Director
This practical guide uncovers the roots of Brecht’s lifelong obsession with Shakespeare. By connecting these two great playwrights, Stephen Unwin imagines new possibilities for Brechtian productions of Shakespeare. Drawing on his directing and performance experience, Unwin’s knowledge of Brecht provides students, teachers, and practitioners with practical exercises for use in the classroom and rehearsal room. The book charts a chronology of Brecht’s engagement with Shakespeare and details a Brechtian approach to reading, performing and staging Shakespeare. Unwin also provides an in-depth look at five of Shakespeare’s plays through Brecht’s own words and imagines a Brechtian staging for them.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 224 pages
PB 9781350419612 • £16.99 / $22.95
ePub 9781350419636 • £15.29 / $21.59
ePdf 9781350419643 • £15.29 / $21.59
Series: Arden Performance Companions • The Arden Shakespeare
Richard III: Arden Performance Edition
William Shakespeare
Edited by Simon Russell Beale & Abigail Rokison-Woodall, The Shakespeare Institute, UK
Richard III is one of Shakespeare's enduring villains as the troubled and troubling figure at the heart of this popular succession drama. Traversing the familiar terrain of scheming plots, proposals, betrayals and kingly power, this edition is presented in an easy to read format with notes for performance and rehearsal by directors and actors. It is edited by leading Shakespearean actor, Simon Russell Beale, and director, Abigail Rokison-Woodall. With clear facing-page notes giving definitions of words, key textual variants, lineation, metrical ambiguities and pronunciation, each edition has been developed to open the play's possibilities and meanings to actors and students.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 440 pages
PB 9781350445772 £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350445765 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350445758 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Arden Performance Editions • The Arden Shakespeare
Measure for Measure: A Critical Reader
Edited by John Jowett, University of Birmingham, UK & Sarah Olive, Bangor University, UK
This scholarly guide to Measure for Measure highlights its unique position in the Shakespeare canon by covering its nuanced performance history and critical backstory. Issues at the heart of the play including gender equality, rape, judicial process, political authority, slander, and equality before the law provide rich material for teaching and studying. Contributors connect the specifics of these themes from the early modern context to the present day and make crucial interventions to contemporary criticism on the play. Different interpretations explore how sexual politics, reputation, the reformation, ethics, and law shape Measure for Measure for a 21stcentury audience.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350409033 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350409040 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350409057 • £72.00 / $98.54
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Stanislavsky
A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers
Annie Tyson, RADA, UK
Shakespeare and Stanislavsky provides a guide for actors, acting students, directors and teachers who want to apply the work of influential theatre practitioner, Stanislavsky, to the process of rehearsing and workshopping Shakespeare’s play texts. Acting tutor and director, Annie Tyson, makes applying Stanislavsky’s methods to Shakespeare simple and accessible. Drawing on years of acting, directing and teaching experience at the Drama Centre London and RADA, Tyson’s guide is full of practical tips and humour. This guide also includes a series of interviews with actors and directors who explain their approach to applying Stanislavsky to Shakespeare.
UK November 2024 US November 2024 208 pages
PB 9781350249745 £14.99 / $19.95
ePdf
Series: Arden Performance Companions • The Arden Shakespeare
Essential Shakespeare
The Arden Guide to Text and Interpretation
Pamela Bickley, The English Association & Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK
Addressing the transition from pre-university to undergraduate Shakespeare studies, this introductory critical guide examines 16 key plays. Each chapter focuses on modern theoretical methods, close reading skills, early modern contexts, and productions from stage and screen spanning several decades. This new edition features a revised introduction, a preface to the revised edition, two additional plays, As You Like It and Titus Andronicus, updates to each chapter, new links between chapters, an appendix featuring recommended open access online resources, and a glossary of critical terms
Shakespeare’s Compassion Emotion and the Classics on the Early Modern Stage
Anne Sophie Refskou, Aarhus University, Denmark
Through close readings of key plays – Titus Andronicus, Richard III, Hamlet and King Lear –the main classical sources and the drama of his contemporaries , this book argues that Shakespeare’s dramatization of compassion, far from expressing a sense of universal empathy, reveals a complex early modern emotion available to be solicited and manipulated as a discursive vehicle for the exclusion of others. It demonstrates how Shakespeare’s engagement with the classical literature enables his dramatization of key questions of race, gender, sexuality and the relationship between human beings and nonhuman animals that are central to the current critical field.
UK March 2025 • US March 2025 • 208 pages
HB 9781350497580 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350497597 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350497603 • £72.00 / $98.54
The Arden Shakespeare
Global Shakespeare Inverted
Bi-qi Beatrice Lei & David Schalkwyk & Silvia Bigliazzi, University of Verona, Italy
Dostoevsky's Hamlet in Nineteenth-Century Russia
The Paradox of Subjectivity
Petra Bjelica, University of Verona, Italy
Dostoevsky uses Hamlet to address some of the most important problems in Russian culture in the second half of the 19th century. Approaching Dostoevsky’s engagement with Shakespeare through a focus on his novel, Demons, Petra Bjelica considers the figure of Hamlet as it connects to Russian national identity, spirituality and cultural migration. Bjelica argues that Russian Hamletism is a perfect example of how a literary phenomenon forms through a specific culture. Rather than just referencing the play, Dostoevsky’s engagement with opposing and contradictory elements of Russian Hamletism dramatize the Hamletian dilemma anew.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 264 pages
HB 9781350450929 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350450936 £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350450943 £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the ‘Post’Colonies
Legacies, Cultures and
Social Justice
Edited by Amrita Dhar, University of California San Diego, USA & Amrita Sen, University of Calcutta, India
This collection provides a wide-ranging examination of the presence of Shakespeare in regions that were once under European colonial rule, including continental Africa, Australasia, the Arab world, the Indian subcontinent, East Asia and the Americas. Contributors interrogate how Shakespeare intersects with the internal and global power dynamics of post-independence nations. The essays cover a rich range of genres ranging from theatrical performances, translations, and cinematic adaptations to classroom strategies. They address questions of race, gender, nationality, indigeneity, caste and class, and shed new light on the diverse range of contemporary Shakespeare engagements across global 'Post' Colonies.
UK June 2025 US June 2025 280 pages 5 b&w illustrations
HB 9781350344143 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350344150 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350344167 • £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare
A Midsummer Night’s Dream: The State of Play
Edited by Rebecca Bushnell, University of Pennsylvania, USA
Offering new critical and performance approaches to Shakespeare’s most well-known comedy of desire, a play that speaks powerfully to contemporary concerns, this collection includes approaches to the play covering textual studies, literary analysis, performance studies, adaptation studies and pedagogy. The chapters all point to the inherent instability or openness of this play and its themes of shifting identity and boundary crossings, bridging nature and culture, the material and ‘airy nothing’, mortal and fairy. They make clear that this play speaks to people around the world today, emphasising its wide global reception and adaptability in both theatre and film.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 272 pages
HB 9781350449534 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350449541 £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350449558 £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Arden Shakespeare The State of Play • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Adaptation
Mark Thornton Burnett, Queen's University Belfast, UK
Shakespeare and Seriality
Page, Stage, Screen
Edited by Christina Wald, University of Konstanz, Germany & Elisabeth Bronfen, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Beginning by investigating Shakespeare as a serial writer, this open access book moves to case studies involving literary and dramatic adaptations, to more modern theatrical serializations of his plays. Culminating in analysis of adaptations of Shakespeare in TV series including Succession and Station 11, this book explores Shakespeare’s seriality from the perspective of political theory, phenomenology, psychoanalysis and literary and cultural theory.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the Centre of Cultural Inquiry (ZKF) and the Publication Fund of the University of Konstanz.
UK February 2025 • US February 2025 • 264 pages • 11 illus
HB 9781350437265 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350437272 • £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350437289 £00.00 / $00.00
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in Ireland
Adaptations and Appropriations
Edited by Andrew Murphy, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
Considering the ways in which such Irish writers as Samuel Beckett and W. B. Yeats drew on Shakespearean material in producing their own work, whilst analysing Shakespearean influence in both Irish society and its theatrical landscape, essays in this collection explore the history of Irish Shakespeare through the numerous ways in which Shakespeare and his work were reconfigured and recycled into various Irish contexts. Shakespeare in Ireland shows how Shakespeare has been rendered Irish in a variety of complex ways, and is an exercise in tracking how Shakespeare becomes a fully hibernicised figure.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 7 bw illus
HB 9781350458383 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350458390 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350458406 • £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation The Arden Shakespeare
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.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 208 pages
PB 9781350359246 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350359208
ePub 9781350359215 • £26.09 / $36.44
ePdf 9781350359222 • £26.09 / $36.44
Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s House A Window onto his Life and Legacy
Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast, UK
'A terrific addition to the Shakespeare library ... eye-opening.' - Michael Billington, Country Life
Richard Schoch explores the appeal of Shakespeare's 'Birthplace' to visitors by examining the history of the house through time and how its changing fortunes reflect the changing attitudes toward Shakespeare himself.
Based on original research, this book traces the history of Shakespeare’s birthplace, beginning in the 1560s, when Shakespeare was born there, and ending in the 1890s, when the house was rescued from private purchase and turned into the Shakespeare monument that it remains today.
UK March 2025 US March 2025 200 pages 25 bw illus
PB 9781350524699 £16.99 / $22.95
Previously published in HB 9781350409354
ePub 9781350409361 • £15.29 / $21.59
ePdf 9781350409378 • £15.29 / $21.59
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare and Disability Theory
Genevieve Love, Colorado College, USA
Literary disability studies intersect with Shakespeare studies in this rich and varied history of performance and criticism. Genevieve Love explores the contemporary debates about disability representations on stage through close readings of Shakespeare plays and performances. By mapping out the central ideas of disability theory in Shakespeare studies, Love tracks the emergence of disability theory as a field. Characterbased representations of disability act as one layer in an expansive understanding of disability that historicises configurations of disability in the early modern period more generally. Such approaches challenge outmoded methods of engaging with disability for Shakespeare students, scholars, and practitioners.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 256 pages
HB 9781350424364 £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350424371 £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350424388 • £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Shakespeare and Theory • The Arden Shakespeare
On Shakespeare's Sonnets
A Poets' Celebration
Edited by Hannah Crawforth, King's College London, UK & Elizabeth Scott-Baumann, King's College London, UK
In the years since Shakespeare's death, the Sonnets have invited imitation, homage, critique, parody and pastiche. These poems probe our relationship to their intricate form and ambitious scope, their investigation of sexuality, wit, memory and poetic survival. They explore what it means to write 'on Shakespeare's Sonnets' in the 21st century. Published in association with the Royal Society of Literature, contributing poets include: Andrew Motion, Carol Ann Duffy, Gillian Clarke, Paul Muldoon, Ruth Padel, Simon Armitage, Roger McGough, Wendy Cope, Jackie Kay, Mimi Khalvati, Imtiaz Dharker and Jo Shapcott, among others. This new paperback edition also includes an updated preface.
UK May 2025 • US August 2025 • 120 pages
PB 9781350531505 • £16.99 / $22.95
Previously published in HB 9781474221580
ePub 9781350531512 • £15.29 / $21.59
ePdf 9781350531529 • £15.29 / $21.59
The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources
Transitions and Transformations
Sophie Chiari, University of Clermont Auvergne, France
Sophie Chiari analyses how Shakespeare’s plays and poems present the transformation of the early modern natural world through environmental shifts and ecological transformation. Using a range of examples from the Sonnets, Love’s Labour’s Lost, The Tempest, Hamlet and Henry V, Chiari's ecopoetic study of dramatic language explores Shakespeare’s response to the rise of extractive exploitation in Elizabethan and Jacobean England. By interweaving ecohistoricism, ecopoetics and material studies, Shakespeare’s Ecology of Natural Resources shows how an ecominded approach, focused on the interweaving of trade, territory and extractivism reveals new layers of meaning in Shakespearean poetics and drama.
UK
HB 9781350559066 £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350559073 £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350559080 £72.00 / $98.54
The Arden Shakespeare
Twelfth Night
Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition
Edited by James Schiffer, State University of New York at New Paltz, USA
This volume offers critical opinions about Twelfth Night across the centuries and an evaluation of their positions within and their impact on the reception of the play. The volume features criticism from key literary figures such as Thomas De Quincey, Charles Knight, Mary Cowden Clarke, Charles Lamb, George Bernard Shaw and Caroline F. E. Spurgeon. The chronological arrangement of the text-excerpts engages the readers in a direct and unbiased dialogue, whereas the introduction offers a critical evaluation from a current stance, including modern theories and methods.
UK June 2025 US June 2025 408 pages
HB 9781350087057 £130.00 / $175.00
ePub 9781350452145 £117.00 / $159.29
ePdf 9781350452152 • £117.00 / $159.29
Series: Shakespeare: The Critical Tradition • The Arden Shakespeare
Shakespeare in the Theatre: Tina Packer
Katharine Goodland, College of Staten Island, USA
This is the first comprehensive analysis of the contribution of Tina Packer to Shakespearean theatre in the United States. Beginning with her 1st production in 1971, Katharine Goodland covers the 5 decades since the founding of Shakespeare & Company in Lenox, Massachusetts in 1978. Drawing on new interviews with the original casts and creative teams as well as Tina Packer herself, and featuring 11 in-depth case studies of productions, it considers all of her professional Shakespeare productions in their cultural and historical context and illuminates the embedded nature of regional Shakespeare in communities across the United States.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 216 pages • 8 bw illus
PB 9781350205802 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350205710
ePub 9781350205727 £67.50 / $91.79
ePdf 9781350205734 • £67.50 / $91.79
Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare
ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS
Shakespeare’s
Care and Contagion in Shakespeare's Changing World
Edited by Darryl Chalk, University of Southern Queensland, Australia & Rebecca Totaro, Florida Gulf Coast University, USA
Circuits of disease correspond to previously unconsidered practices of caregiving in early modern English drama in this new volume by Darryl Chalk and Rebecca Totaro. They explore how the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries responded to and intersected with local and international ideas of communal care, health management, quarantine, embodiment, and theatricality. Foregrounded by pioneering archival research, contributors explore plague and privilege in Romeo and Juliet, servants and caregiving in King Lear, women and herbal medicine in The Winter’s Tale, astrology in The Duchess of Malfi, and the humour that attaches itself to illness in The Roaring Girl.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 256 pages • 3 bw illus
HB 9781350425071 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350425095 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350425088 • £76.50 / $103.94
The Arden Shakespeare
Women and Cultures of Portraiture in the British Literary Renaissance
Edited by Yasmin Arshad, Independent Scholar, USA & Chris Laoutaris, University of Birmingham, UK
This collection of interdisciplinary essays examines the representation of women at the intersections between portraiture, literature and drama in Renaissance Britain. Bringing together art historians, curators, heritage specialists and scholars of early modern history, drama and literature, the volume situates women both as the subjects and devisers of ‘cultures of portraiture’. The essays in this volume examine how power was negotiated through the royal icon; how self-portraiture became a means of navigating the dangerous worlds of religious and courtly factionalism; how the commissioning, collecting and curating of paintings, relics and life-writings fashioned shared testaments of faith and enabled female networks across political and pedagogical arenas; how drama staged the anxieties surrounding a threatening female agency; and how creativity wielded through narrative prose fiction, illuminated manuscripts and poetry, allowed women to co-opt and subvert prevailing visual tropes and stereotypes.
UK November 2025 US November 2025 288 pages 16 colour, 44 bw illus
HB 9781350320703 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350320710 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350320727 • £76.50 / $103.94
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Material Culture • The Arden Shakespeare
Early Modern Bonds of Trust
From Shakespeare to Milton
Edited by Alison Findlay, Lancaster University, UK, Helen Wilcox, University of Bangor, UK & Joseph Sterrett, Aarhus University, Denmark
Trust and risk provide important concepts for understanding the social and cultural life of early modern England but remain relatively unexplored in early modern literary studies. This collection addresses that gap by exploring a wide range of literary genres and texts including comic drama, lyric verse, emblem books, ledgers, wills, polemical prose and religious epic. Contributors explore issues of personal, communal and credit-based trust in texts such as Paradise Lost, The Merchant of Venice, Volpone and The Winter’s Tale. Taken together the mix of texts and genres reveal new insights into early modern English literature and its socio-economic context.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350462007 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350462014 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350462021 £72.00 / $98.54
Series: Arden Studies in Early Modern Drama The Arden Shakespeare
Richard Barnfield's Poetics
Early Modern English Poetry Beyond Shakespeare
Edited by Fabio Ciambella, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Cristiano Ragni, University of Verona, Italy & Camilla Caporicci, University of Perugia, Italy
Richard Barnfield is sometimes considered the rival poet in Shakespeare’s sonnets but has been relatively neglected in studies of early modern English poetry. The essays in this volume tackle issues of intertextuality and interdiscursivity through the poet’s use of classical sources and poetic genres such as the sonnet and epyllia. Using corpus linguistics tools, the poet’s entire body of work is further elucidated through analysing his sonnets and use of irony. Written by an international group of scholars, this collection celebrates the 450th anniversary of Barnfield’s birth and makes his poetry essential to the study of early modern poetry.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 312 pages
HB 9781350456037 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350456044 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350456051 • £72.00 / $98.54
The Arden Shakespeare
Exploring Early Modern Sexualities
The Desires of King James VI & I
Jason O'Toole, University College Dublin, Ireland
Jason O’Toole explores the network of intimacy which structured itself around King James VI and I, his wife Anna of Denmark and James’ prominent as well as ancillary favourites. He presents a cultural and literary history of homoerotic desire by analysing the politics and texture of queer culture at the Jacobean court. Primary texts including poems, masques, and unpublished manuscripts, recurrent tropes and material culture are analysed to unpack sexual double meanings. O’Toole demonstrates how homoerotic and homosocial desire were both interwoven and normative in the courts of King James VI and I.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 256 pages
HB 9781350541672 • £80.00 / $110.00
ePub 9781350541689 • £72.00 / $98.54
ePdf 9781350541696 • £72.00 / $98.54
The Arden Shakespeare
Nowhere to Go but Up What Angela Lansbury Can Teach Us about Living a Big Life
Lily E. Hirsch
This book is a lively celebration and feminist reevaluation of Angela Lansbury’s career, personal life, and myriad achievements in film, Broadway, and television—and how this icon can inspire us to live bigger and better. Lily E. Hirsch weaves the history of the star’s most memorable roles within each chapter, including as Jessica Fletcher in Murder, She Wrote, and explores her approach to life, including helping other people, trying new things, tuning out naysayers, judging with empathy, processing death, aging, navigating motherhood and much more.
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 224 pages • 11 bw illus
HB 9798881842444 • £25.00 / $32.00
ePub 9798765146163 • £23.14 / $28.80
ePdf 9798765146170 • £23.14 / $28.80
Bloomsbury Academic
Queer Musicals
Boy Meets Boy to Jagged
Little Pill
Robert W. Schneider, Penn State, College of Arts and Architecture, USA
Takes a chronological look at queer musicals that have developed on Broadway throughout the second half of the twentieth century the the early 21st century. Looking at the inception and development of each show, this accessible study unpacks the creation, production and reception of each musical in order to draw parallels within the wider American dramatic canon.
Straight White Men Can’t Dance American Masculinity in Film and Popular Culture
Addie Tsai, William & Mary, USA
Investigates a trope proliferating throughout popular American media over the last half-century: that straight white men can’t dance. Addie Tsai traces this reiterative moving image of vaudevillian buffoonery in film, television, and video from the mid-1980s to present-day. During the height of homophobic hysteria in response to the AIDS epidemic, dance began to be used as a marker to scrutinize white men’s position within homosexuality and masculinity. Therefore, white men could misperform good dancing to more securely sit within hegemonic masculinity. Tsai establishes how ethnic mimicry within American popular media, even that of white masculinity, is produced and reiterated from the 19th-century theatrical practice of blackface minstrelsy. This history resurfaces in one of the exceptions to the trope: when white men use the hip currency of blackness to affirm their (dancing) masculinity through theft and positionality. By revealing how dance in American popular media reifies and problematizes gendered and racialized economies, Straight White Men Can’t Dance demonstrates how the image of the buffoonish white male dancer operates as a smokescreen for the more violent manipulative forces of the reigning figure of white supremacy.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 216 pages
HB 9781350443563 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350443594 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350443587 • £76.50 / $103.94
Bloomsbury Academic
Stephen Sondheim’s Sweeney Todd
Behind the Bloody Musical Masterpiece
Rick Pender
Award-winning Sondheim expert, Rick Pender, dives into all facets of this unique, murder-filled masterpiece—its slimy roots, original production, characters from killers to lovers to bakers, soaring score, gripping storytelling, and its lasting power. This bloody tale is often considered the greatest musical of all time. This book provides a kaleidoscopic view and interweaves a wealth of archival materials and insights, from the show’s 19th-century gruesome literary origins to major productions and adaptations, including Tim Burton’s cinematic reimagining and the 2023 revival starring Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford.
UK December 2025 • US October 2025 • 264 pages • 17 bw illus
HB 9781538196441 £25.00 / $34.00
ePub 9781538196458 £24.74 / $30.60
ePdf 9798765148976 £24.74 / $30.60
Bloomsbury Academic
World English
Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre
Paige Allen & Stacy Wolf, Princeton University, USA
How does a feminist spectator navigate misogynist representations of women?
Through case studies of shows such as Guys and Dolls, Evita, A Strange Loop and Ragtime, Feminist Approaches in Musical Theatre outlines five techniques for analyzing musical theatre from a feminist perspective, modeling these methods.
UK October 2025 US October 2025 128 pages
PB 9781350350137 £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350350144 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350350151 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Topics in Musical Theatre • Methuen Drama
God's Fools
Laughing Saints, Delirious Prophets, and the Sacred Makers of Comedy
Jason Crawford, Union University, Jackson, TN, USA
From the self-abasements of Charlie Chaplin and Lenny Bruce’s provocations to the present-day culture warring over figures like Dave Chappelle and Hannah Gadsby, comedians have always been not simply entertainers, but charismatic observers of (and participants in) social anxieties and pathologies. In God’s Fools, religion and literature scholar Jason Crawford gives a penetrating and surprising look at the social role that comedians play by placing them in their proper historical lineage—one that begins not with vaudeville and minstrelsy but with the mystics, martyrs, and misfits of the premodern JudeoChristian world.
Out of the Black Box
Conversations with Global Majority Actors Volume 1
Edited by Pamela Jikiemi, RADA, UK
This book provides an opportunity to connect with Black actors working in the UK and US on stage and screen on important questions impacting their careers. The interviewed actors consider and discuss their careers to date and the role that racial diversity has had on them as individuals. They delve into how it has shaped opportunities that were presented to them as actors and who is considered the authority on artistic conception.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 292 pages
PB 9781350264359 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB
National Theatre Backstage Guides
Auditioning A Backstage Guide
Sam Stevenson
From a leading casting director of the stage and screen comes this book on the craft of auditioning, either for work within the theatre industry or for a place at drama school. Casting directors, the author points out, are on the side of everyone who auditions for them – they want actors to do well, to give casting directors and directors tough decisions to make. The author's insights, supported by other industry voices, help actors to understand what purpose the audition serves.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 144 pages
PB 9781350384972 • £9.99 / $12.95
ePub 9781350384996 • £8.99 / $12.14
ePdf 9781350384989 • £8.99 / $12.14
Series: National Theatre Backstage Guides • Methuen Drama World English
A Beginner’s Guide to Acting Methods
Understanding
Practitioners and their Legacies
Kimberly Shire
This accessible guide summarizes the methods of 20 practitioners by collecting the most important features of their work and framing them so that the complete novice will understand the material. Introducing us to the work of practitioners such as Stanislavski, Meyerhold, Brecht, Chekhov, Copeau, Knebel, Strasberg, Adler, Meisner, Spolin, Hagen, Boal, Grotowski, Suzuki and Bogart, among many others, the book sets readers on the path to discovering the methods they want to explore in greater depth.
From one of the most celebrated actors of the stage and screen comes this book on the craft of acting. Lucian Msamati draws on his rich experience, particularly in the context of productions at the National Theatre, to delve into sets of challenges and possibilities that actors might face. He offers up his tips on getting started in the industry; navigating professional relationships and roles inside a rehearsal room; and running your own company and generating your own work. Peppered with interviews with other industry professionals and personal anecdotes, this will be a cherished book on any actor's bookshelf.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 112 pages
PB 9781350379497 • £9.99 / $12.95
ePub 9781350379510 • £8.99 / $12.14
ePdf 9781350379503 • £8.99 / $12.14
Series: National Theatre Backstage Guides • Methuen Drama
Acting Realism
Theory and Practice from Garrick to Meisner and Beyond
Stephen Bayly
This book offers a refreshingly accessible survey of the major acting teachers and methods from the early 1700s up to the present day. It looks at what their major influences were, where their ideas came from and their legacy. Structured by practitioner and arranged in chronological order, this much-needed book brings together the foundational acting theories that have shaped the arts scene for centuries. If you are struggling to decipher your Boal from your Brecht, your Meisner from your Marowitz, or your Adler from your Artaud, this is the book for you.
The Bains’ corner shop in Wolverhampton has been at the centre of the family for three generations.
Against the backdrop of a changing 20th century, Mrs Bains is balancing running the business, caring for her ailing husband and the demands of her two headstrong daughters, who each have their eye on a different kind of future. Fast forward to the present day, a family tragedy pulls Arjan Bains back from a life in London. The shop represents everything he was trying to escape, but with his mother insisting it remain open, how long can he stay away?
UK May 2025 • US July 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9781350584761 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350584785 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350584778 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
The Government Inspector
Nikolai Gogol
Adapted by Phil Porter
Don't blame the mirror if your face is askew.
One of the most famous comedies in world theatre, Gogol's masterpiece has lost none of its bite.
In a small town corruption is rife, and the Mayor and his cronies have got it made. So when they learn they are going to be subject to an undercover government inspection they panic. Mistaking a penniless nobody for the inspector they swiftly fall victim to their own stupidity and greed.
This adaptation by Phil Porter was published to coincide with the premiere at Chichester Festival Theatre in April 2025.
UK April 2025 • US June 2025 • 104 pages
PB 9781350569058 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350569072 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350569065 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
4.48 Psychosis
Sarah Kane
4.48 Psychosis is the last play by Sarah Kane, the controversial contemporary British playwright, who died aged 28 in February 1999. Throughout the piece the audience are plunged into the mind of an unnamed protagonist grappling with severe depression as Kane crafts an unflinching and poetic portrait of a psyche teetering on the edge of oblivion. A quarter century from its debut, the entire original cast and creative team return to the Royal Court Theatre Upstairs to revisit Sarah Kane’s final masterpiece 25 years on.
UK June 2025 • US July 2025 • 64 pages
PB 9781350579446 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350579460 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350579453 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama
World English
Dealer's Choice
Patrick Marber Sunday night. Stephen hosts a weekly poker game in the basement of his failing London restaurant. All the usual suspects are there; the chef, the waiters, the errant son…but tonight a stranger has come to play. As the stakes get higher, the game turns savage…now no one’s safe when everything's on the line. Patrick Marber's acclaimed 1995 debut won the Evening Standard Award (Best Comedy) and the Writer’s Guild of Great Britain Award (Best West End Play). Dealer's Choice has since been performed in more than 50 cities across the world.
UK April 2025 • US May 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9781350577671 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350577695 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350577688 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama
World English
George Orwell's 1984
Ryan Craig
ROOM 101… BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU… SUPER STATES … THOUGHT POLICE…
On 4th April 1984, Winston Smith, comrade 6079, starts a diary. In a world where every action is painstakingly monitored and controlled, this simple act puts Winston’s life in jeopardy. A clandestine love affair with co-worker Julia further enrages the authorities, but can they truly trust each other? And what of the mysterious O’Brien? Will he help them overthrow the regime, confront them with their most terrifying fears, or worse…?
UK October 2024 • US February 2025 • 112 pages
PB 9781350543027 £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350543041 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350543034 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
A Tryal of Witches
Tallulah Brown East Anglia, 1645. A hot and stifling summer. Matthew Hopkins, the self-appointed Witchfinder General, tells all who will listen about the power of the devil and the prevalence of witches. As the battles of the Civil War draw closer, the crops fail and a man drops dead in the alehouse. A moral panic sets in, and the people need someone to blame. A Tryal of Witches asks what led to the trial in Bury St Edmunds, one of the most shocking witch trials in British History, where the women were convicted using 'spectral evidence'.
UK March 2025 US April 2025 120 pages
PB 9781350562295 £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350562318 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350562301 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
Brace Brace
Oli Forsyth,
A man hijacks a plane. The plane begins to fall. Fight or flight. Back on the ground, survivors Ray and Sylvia struggle to reconcile their responses to this life-changing event. As cracks appear in their relationship, one closes themselves off, the other can’t focus on anything else. A gripping story of the people we become in the aftermath of catastrophe from writer Oli Forsyth.
UK October 2024 • US November 2024 • 104 pages
PB 9781350534452 • £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350534469 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350534476 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
Irishtown
Ciara Elizabeth Smyth
It’s a week before the opening of a new Irish play on Broadway and in the rehearsal room, the cast are panicking. They are worried the script is dated, too weird and nowhere near Irish enough for American audiences. When the writer comes into the rehearsal room to watch a run, an argument erupts and the fate of the script hangs in the balance. Not wanting to blow their shot on Broadway, the cast feel it is now their duty to devise an “Irish Play”. Irishtown is a biting satire about theatre, consent and what it means to be Irish.
UK May 2025 • US April 2025 • 112 pages
PB 9781350574311 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350574335 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350574342 £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 the award-winning, smash hit 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 the reality of a Black actor's journey to stardom. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the West End transfer in March 2025 following its premiere at The Kiln Theatre.
UK March 2025 US May 2025 80 pages
PB 9781350568167 £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350568181 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350568174 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
Hot Chicks
Rebecca Jade Hammond
Teenagers Ruby and Kyla spend their evenings hanging at Cheney’s chicken shop dreaming of moving to Vegas and going viral. A chance encounter with older, cooler Sadie, means their dreams of pool parties and showering in dollars could become a reality… but at what price?
Rebecca Jade Hammond’s ferocious, witty and unsettling play Hot Chicks is contemporary Welsh theatre at its sharpest.
UK March 2025 • US May 2025 • 96 pages
PB 9781350559691 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350559714 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350559707 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
KENREX
Jack Holden & Ed Stambollouian
A thrilling new one-person show by the Olivier Award-nominated author of Cruise, Jack Holden, based on a true crime story and featuring live music.
This edition was published to coincide with the run at Sheffield Crucible in October 2024.
UK October 2024 US December 2024 72 pages
PB 9781350512245 • £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350512269 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350512252 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
The Comedy About Spies
Henry Lewis & Henry Shields
When a rogue British agent pilfers plans for a topsecret weapon, CIA and KGB spies converge on London’s Piccadilly Hotel in pursuit of the elusive file. Add to the mix a clueless young couple, a hapless actor angling for the role of James Bond, and enough double agents to confuse even the sharpest operative, and you’ve got a mission that’s hilariously out of control.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9781350567658 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350567672 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350567665 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama World English
The Fifth Step
David Ireland
After many years in the 12-step programme of Alcoholics Anonymous, James agrees to become the sponsor of newcomer Luka. On the journey to sobriety, the pair bond over black coffee, trade stories, and build a fragile friendship out of their shared experiences. On the cusp of Step 5, their conversations must turn to confessionals. The Fifth Step is a provocative, entertaining and subversively funny new play from David Ireland. This revised and updated edition was published to coincide with the @sohoplace production in May 2025, after its premiere at the Edinburgh International Festival.
UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 96 pages
PB 9781350574069 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350574083 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350574076 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama
World English
The Score
Oliver Cotton Spring 1747. Potsdam, Prussia. Johann Sebastian Bach reluctantly visits the court of Frederick II, Europe's most ambitious and dangerous leader. As the Age of Enlightenment dawns, they stand in opposite camps. Frederick remains in awe of Bach's genius however and has mischievously prepared a musical conundrum that he hopes will baffle the composer and amuse his court. The explosive events of the following days could not have been predicted by either man. Oliver Cotton's The Score starred the legendary Brian Cox (HBO's Succession) and was directed by multi-award-winning director Trevor Nunn, thrilling in its political and musical intrigue.
UK February 2025 • US April 2025 • 112 pages
PB 9781350563971 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350563995 • £10.79 / $14.84
ePdf 9781350563988 £10.79 / $14.84
Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama
World English
Ghosts
Henrik Ibsen & Gary Owen
Adapted by Gary Owen
Helena is a woman on a mission. Since the death of her high-flying husband, she has dedicated herself to reclaiming his legacy. Her hard work is about to pay off, with a new children’s hospital bearing his name on the brink of opening. When their son Oz returns home for the grand unveiling, he has ambitions of his own that threaten to unravel their family’s most tightly kept secrets. Gary Owen’s GHOSTS is a contemporary re-imagining of Ibsen’s classic.
UK April 2025 US May 2025 128 pages
PB 9781350574410 £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350574434 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350574427 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English
MILLENNIUM GIRLS
Sophia Leonie
London. The 90s. The sparkle of the New Millennium is building. For Jessica, everything is changing fast.
Spanning three decades, we follow Jessica from adolescence through to adulthood. Clumsily, she navigates bullies, boys and best friends. Phone boxes, free yards and first kisses. Marriage, motherhood and meltdowns.
And some things you don’t talk about. Ever. Millennium Girls explores identity, girlhood and female friendships, exposing what it’s like growing up as a mixed race girl in a working-class community, within the goldfish bowl of the ever-present, male gaze.
UK May 2025 US June 2025 88 pages
PB 9781350580060 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350580084 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350580077 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
KELI
Martin Green
KELI tells the story of a fiery, sharp witted seventeen year-old in a former mining town. Coal means little to Keli, but the mines left music in the blood of this place. As the best player her brass band has ever had, music is easy. Everything else is a fight. Feeling trapped in small-town life, pressure mounts. When the chance to change everything arises, can Keli keep a lid on it all?
UK May 2025 • US June 2025 • 96 pages
PB 9781350582293 • £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350582316 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350582309 • £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
Dear England
2025 Edition
James Graham
Winner of Best New Play at the Olivier Awards
2024 James Graham's 'rousing new play' (Tatler) is a fast-moving portrayal of Gareth Southgate's reign as England football manager that presents a gripping examination of both nation and game. Uplifting, funny and more entertaining than a World Cup final. This updated and revised edition was published to coincide with the 2025 run at London’s National Theatre.
UK March 2025 US June 2025 112 pages
PB 9781350567856 £10.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350567870 • £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350567863 • £9.89 / $13.49
Methuen Drama
World English
Methuen Drama Play Collections
Druid Theatre 1975-2025
50 Years of New Irish Plays
Edited by Patrick Lonergan, University of Galway, Ireland, Barry Houlihan, University of Galway, Ireland & Máiréad Ní Chróinín
Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the world’s leading theatre companies, this book collects six of its most impactful plays, together in one volume for the first time. Since 1975, Druid Theatre have surprised, delighted, and inspired audiences worldwide, touring from their home city of Galway in the west of Ireland to countless other locations nationally and internationally. Under the leadership of Garry Hynes, the first woman to win a Tony Award for directing, the company has revitalised the Irish dramatic tradition by staging exciting new plays and by breathing life into neglected classics.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama
Voices of Women from Afghanistan
Five Plays and the Stories that Inspired Them
Edited by Lesley Ferris, The Ohio State University, USA & Jenny Morgan, Freelance editor
Five female playwrights offer short but intense experiences of the lives of Afghan girls and women in the brief, perilous years before the Taliban retook Kabul.
The five plays, and the journalism they’re based on are illuminating, wry, surprising, heart-rending. They open our eyes to what Afghan women wrestled with in the two decades between periods of Taliban rule, and remind us what is being lost every day that women in Afghanistan are silenced.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama
World English non-exclusive
Intercultural Japanese Noh Theatre
Texts and Analyses of English-language Noh
Ashley Thorpe, Allan Marett, Greg Giovanni, Jannette Cheong, Deborah Brevoort & Carrie J. Preston
Edited by Richard Emmert & Ashley Thorpe
Discover Japanese culture and one of the world's oldest performance artform in an exhilarating new way: through English language noh theatre.
With interviews, analysis, and seven playtexts that exemplify the history, diversity, and rich complexity of the dance-drama, Englishlanguage Noh blends tradition with global perspectives.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama
World English non-exclusive
Latin American Plays in Translation
Modern Stories of Gender, Class and Society in Latin America
Edited by Global Voices Theatre
Six new plays from Latin America’s most exciting and incisive playwrights, newly translated for an English-language audience.
From streetwise urchins with a sharp eye for political discourse in Chilé to artists who dream of better futures amidst crisis in Perú; from fairy-tale parodies of Princess Diana as an expression of genderbased violence to mundane, everyday acts of love amid hardship, Latin American Plays in Translation offers a unique insight into the concerns and creative responses of some of Latin America’s leading contemporary playwrights.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama World English non-exclusive
Not Beckett, The Plays
Female and Non-binary Irish Playwrights Respond
Olwen Fouéré, Jennifer Barclay, FELISPEAKS, Nicola McCartney & Hannah Khalil Five new short plays, including author commentaries, from female and non-binary writers of Irish heritage in response to Samuel Beckett. Authors include global playwrights Hannah Khalil, Jennifer Barclay, Olwen Fouéré, FELISPEAKS, and Nicola McCartney. Each short play provides an ideal vehicle for students and readers to further explore the artistic influence of Samuel Beckett’s work through meditations on what Irish heritage means to members of the modern-day diaspora. The whole collection is introduced by Dr Matthew McFrederick, CoDirector of the Beckett International Foundation at the University of Reading, who considers the plays in the anthology and their impact.
UK July 2025 • US October 2025 • 88 pages
PB 9781350547261 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350547285 £10.79 / $14.84
ePdf 9781350547278 £10.79 / $14.84
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama World English non-exclusive
Once in the Countryside A Collection
of Plays
Lloyd Suh, American playwright
Edited by Christine Mok
2023 Pulitzer Prize finalist Lloyd Suh is a celebrated Chinese-American playwright who's work reveals how history can exact an emotional toll across culture and time. As a writer his work explores often ignored pivotal moments of Asian American history, drawing on a variety of forms and aesthetics, from historical realism and punk rock musicals to sci-fi plays and comedies for young audiences. From New York Times Critic's Picks and the Pulitzer Prize final shortlist to intimate one-act dramas, Suh's work is revelatory, insightful and ripe for study and enjoyment in this inaugural collection, introduced by the author himself.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama
World English non-exclusive
The Methuen Drama Book of Contemporary Uruguayan Plays
Edited by Sophie Stevens, Institute of Languages, Cultures and Societies, University of London, UK & William Gregory, King's College London, UK
The rich and varied 21st-century playwriting scene of Uruguay is showcased in this eclectic and fascinating collection, bringing together the work of established figures with that of provocative emerging artists, all published in English for the first time.
Spanning several generations, the six award-winning dramatists featured in this volume are leading figures in shaping Uruguay’s vibrant contemporary theatre landscape. Rooted in their experiences in Uruguay, while also looking out to the world beyond, their plays encompass styles ranging from realism to autofiction, and engage with themes including the challenges of parenthood, and the search for identity.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama
World English non-exclusive
The Four Northwomen
Maxine Peake
In her first collection of plays, writer and BAFTAnominated actor Maxine Peake introduces four unique stories of resistance and passion based on real women. From the famous Leeds-born cyclist Beryl Burton battling through various obstacles to achieve success; to Lillian Bilocca, the 'headscarf revolutionary'; to four bold women protesting for Women Against Pit Closures, occupying a coal pit over Easter weekend in 1993; to former MP Baroness Betty Boothroyd, the first woman to serve as Speaker of the House of Commons. Follow these women as Peake guides you through their stories with warmth and Northern candor.
UK November 2024 • US November 2024 • 256 pages
PB 9781350493001 • £22.99 / $30.95
ePub 9781350493056 • £20.69 / $28.34
ePdf 9781350493025 £20.69 / $28.34
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama World English
Contemporary Dramatists
Tim Price Plays 2
Odyssey '84; Nye; Isla; Force Majeure; Teh Internet is Serious Business
Tim Price, Welsh National Theatre, Literary Manager
In his second collection of Plays, critically acclaimed Welsh playwright Tim Price interweaves the political with the personal. The plays range from the story of the hero behind the NHS, to moving comedy about a skiing holiday, to a the tumultous story of two 'hacktivists'.
UK July 2025 US October 2025 544 pages
PB 9781350547537 £21.99 / $29.95
ePub 9781350547544 • £19.79 / $26.99
ePdf 9781350547551 • £19.79 / $26.99
Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama
World English
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2
Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, Linfield College, USA & Angela Farr Schiller, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, USA
The second anthology of Trans plays from Methuen Drama, curated via an open submission policy. Full line up and description to be confirmed.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections • Methuen Drama World English
Until I Return: The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi
Ismail Khalidi
Edited by Hala Baki, Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, USA & Michael Malek Najjar, University of Oregon, USA
Discover the complex histories and experiences of the Palestinian people through the work of Ismail Khalidi.
With compelling characters, engaging storytelling, quick-witted humor, and unwavering political commitment, Khalidi has entertained and informed audiences in America and around the globe, providing diverse perspectives on the Palestinian experience from the British Mandate era to the challenges faced under occupation today.
Contextualising the pieces with an essay by Professor Edward Ziter (NYU Tisch, USA), an enlightening interview with the playwright conducted by the editors, production stills from landmark performances, and an annotated timeline of Khalidi's life, The Selected Plays of Ismail Khalidi is a comprehensive insight into both the playwright and his people.
Series: Methuen Drama Play Collections Methuen Drama World English non-exclusive
Alistair McDowall Plays 2
X; The Glow; All of It; Northleigh 1940; Zero For the Young Dudes
Alistair McDowall
In his second collection of Plays, the work ranges from a research crew marooned in space, to a formbending monologue, to a play that bends time and space into itself. The intricate and the intimate are drawn together effectively throughout, offering a rich selection of work that showcase McDowall's unique talent.
UK September 2025 • US September 2025 • 400 pages
PB 9781350547407 £19.99 / $26.95
ePub 9781350547414 £17.99 / $24.29
ePdf 9781350547421 • £17.99 / $24.29
Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama
World English
Student Editions
Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK & Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK & Matthew Nichols, Manchester Grammar School, UK & Sara Freeman, University of Puget Sound, Washington, USA
Medea
Euripides
Edited by Will Shüler, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK
Translated by J. Michael Walton
A Student Edition of Euripides' play with commentary by Will Shuler, which looks at its portrayal of violence - both onstage and off; the original performance conditions; staging challenges, both then and now (including Medea's exit on a dragon); the notion of myth and how Greek tragedians were telling old stories to get new meanings; and how the play has evolved through translation. It considers a range of productions around the world up to the present day in order to see how different translators and playwrights have adapted the material, and how actors and directors have approached it.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 80 pages
PB 9781350523722 £10.99 / $14.95
ePub 9781350523746 £9.89 / $13.49
ePdf 9781350523739 £9.89 / $13.49
Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama
World English
Plays for Young People
Wintry Tales
Two Theatrical Adventures by Playwrights and Children aged 7-11
Rory Mullarkey & Lisette Auton
Based on the pioneering Live Tales creative writing model at Live Theatre in Newcastle, placing children’s authorship at the centre of the creative process, Wintry Tales offers a series of brilliant, alternative takes on the Christmas story, written by industry-leading playwright Rory Mullarkey and Lisette Auton, a hugely prominent disabled writer. Simple in form but deliciously rich in ideas, these explosive dramatic works can be performed by just two actors on either a packed or empty stage. It’s all about the words! And the outrageous ideas behind them…
UK November 2024
• US November 2024 • 120 pages
PB 9781350502048 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350502062 • £10.79 / $14.84
ePdf 9781350502055 • £10.79 / $14.84
Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama
World English
Once Before I Go
Phillip McMahon
Edited by Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK
Told against the backdrop of Dublin's burgeoning gay rights movement of the 1980s and 1990s and the contemporary LGBTQ+ community of today, Once Before I Go explores the bonds of Irish queer lives across three decades in Dublin, London and Paris. This Student Edition includes commentary and notes by Fintan Walsh, which look at the play's themes of sexuality, emigration, time and relationships, as well as its style as a realistic three-part drama that draws on queer performance aesthetics. The edition includes an original interview with the playwright.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 128 pages
PB 9781350523760 • £11.99 / $15.95
ePub 9781350523784 • £10.79 / $14.84
ePdf 9781350523777 • £10.79 / $14.84
Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama
World English
Positive Stories for Negative Times, Season Four
Bold New Plays Co-Created by Young People and World-Class Artists
Ella Hickson, Hannah Low, Travis Alabanza, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Mammalian Diving Reflex, Toronto, Canada & James Ley
Edited by Wonder Fools
Positive Stories for Negative Times, Season Four 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 the 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 6-25.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 232 pages
PB 9781350555198 • £16.99 / $22.95
ePub 9781350555211 • £15.29 / $21.59
ePdf 9781350555204 £15.29 / $21.59
Series: Plays for Young People Methuen Drama World English non-exclusive
An Alchemy of Living Culture
Collected Writings on Double Edge Theatre
Stacy Klein
A selection of Stacy Klein’s writings for and about Double Edge Theatre - a feminist ensemble and artist-run organisation founded in the US in the 1980s. It captures the theatrical and cultural practice to have come out of the theatre company and showcases its dedication to collective artistic creativity, cultural survival and sustained, equitable organization-building. Featuring interviews, artists' statements, essays and speeches, as well as an introduction that situates the material in the wider theatre-making scene, the volume as a whole captures the democratic spirit and boundarypushing forms that the theatre company have championed.
UK
PB
ePub 9781350449398 £19.79 / $26.99
ePdf 9781350449381 £19.79 / $26.99
Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama World English
Research and Development in British Theatre
Edited by Tom Cantrell, University of York, UK, Katherine Graham, University of York, UK, Karen Quigley, University of York, UK & Mark LoveSmith, University of York, UK
The first book to explore how research and development (R&D) is used in contemporary British theatre-making, how it exists as a specific, often discrete methodology, and how you can use it in your own theatre-making. Featuring chapters by internationally recognised researchers, as well as interviews with innovative theatre-makers, it provides emerging theatre-makers with a handy guide to using R&D as part of their own practice. Contributors include artisitic director Jenny Sealey, movement directors Joseph Alford and Vicki Ikbogwe, performer Selina Thompson, designers Tom Morris and Sophie Jump, composer Lilian Henley, and writers Alex Kelly and Inua Ellams. UK
ePdf
The Question of Skill Directing and Acting in Contemporary Theatre
Adam J. Ledger, University of Birmingham, UK
This book offers a re-thinking of how theatremaking might be understood as a "skilled" craft and process, exploring how professional contexts allow skill as a competence to emerge in a multitude of ways - often as a result of collective knowledge and collaboration - rather than be acquired. It covers topics such as training, rehearsal and performing, with a focus on the actor and director's roles, and looks at the work of key directors and theatre institutions. Throughout, it draws on first-hand observations from international contemporary theatre-makers to probe what we really mean when we talk about skill in theatre.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 256 pages • 12 bw
HB 9781350300262 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350300279 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350300286 £76.50 / $103.94
Methuen Drama
Notes from a Working-Class Playwright
Leo Butler
Award-winning British playwright Leo Butler looks back over 25 of writing for the stage and his extensive experience teaching and mentoring emerging playwrights through the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme, the Young Vic and at universities across the world. With honesty and humour, Butler shares his experiences from his working-class upbringing in Sheffield to his development into the professional theatre industry. This personal account criss-crosses Butler's life and career, exploring the influences and experiences that informed his plays; how to make a living from this work; and offering exercises and tips to help readers in their playwriting journey.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9781350429468
Series: Theatre Makers Methuen Drama
World English
Making Interdisciplinary Performance
Processes and Practices in Collaboration
Edited by Gianna Bouchard, University of Birmingham, UK & Adam J. Ledger, University of Birmingham, UK
At a time when interdisciplinary practice is actively encouraged in the academy, through strategic priorities, policy and funding, this edited collection asks what it means in practical terms to engage with artists and scholars outside of our home territories. It explores contemporary working practices between performance and other disciplines, and, by focusing on these collaborations, it investigates the processes and conditions involved in the interdisciplinary and develops the notion of ‘journeying’ beyond conventional boundaries. The book includes chapters covering areas such as psychology, environment, physical cultures, the military, healthcare, festivals and communities, architecture, pedagogy and fine dining.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus
HB 9781350318526 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350318533 • £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350318540 • £76.50 / $103.94
Methuen Drama
Community-based Arts, Research and Activism in Uganda
We Are Walukuba
Edited by Jane Plastow, University of Leeds, UK & Katie McQuaid, University of Leeds, UK
How may the lives of individuals and a community be impacted by a durational applied theatre and arts-based project? What lessons does it provide for arts practitioners working for social change? Offering an account of a 7-year arts-based programme of community research, creative activity and activism in a Ugandan community, this book presents the voices and insights of those involved in the form of articles and creative works. Participants respond to work carried out through anthropology, theatre, film, photography, art, poetry, dance and music arguing collectively that creativity is a powerful route to self and community realization and human development.
UK April 2025 • US April 2025 • 232 pages • 18 colour and 18 bw illus
HB 9781350435063 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350435070 • £76.50 / $103.94
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Methuen Drama
Methuen Drama Engage
Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, USA & Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK
Glancing at Dramatists' Dialogue
From Shakespeare to Suzan-Lori Parks
Ruby Cohn
Edited by Daniela Caselli, University of Manchester, UK & Hannah Simpson, University of Edinburgh, UK
This book examines dramatic dialogue in Englishlanguage theatre, tracing verbal invention across four centuries from Shakespeare and Restoration comedy right up to contemporary English and American theatre. Published posthumously, this renowned theatre scholar's book considers English dramatic dialogue as exemplified in the verbal invention of particular plays. In eight chapters, Cohn offers close readings of monologue and dialogue in plays by William Shakespeare, William Wycherley, George Etherege, William Congreve, Oscar Wilde, Samuel Beckett, Edward Albee, Harold Pinter, David Mamet, Tom Stoppard, Sarah Kane, Mark Ravenhill, Caryl Churchill, Sam Shepard, Adrienne Kennedy and Suzan-Lori Parks.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 216 pages
HB 9781350425965 • £90.00 / $120.00
ePub 9781350425989 • £81.00 / $110.69
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Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama
Radical Realisms in Contemporary British Theatre
Rethinking Feminist Form in Plays by Women
Hannah Greenstreet, University of Liverpool, UK
This book offers radical new insights into the relation between realism, feminism and gender identities in contemporary theatre. It argues that the new wave of feminist plays that emerged in the 2010s can be characterised by both its interest in feminist politics and its formal experimentation. By tracing elements of realism in plays that put realism in dialogue with other forms, the radicalism of realism is revealed anew. Reconsidering longstanding debates in feminist theatre scholarship in the light of contemporary feminist theatre practice in the UK, this book offers a new, ‘feminist formalist’ theoretical approach to analysing plays.
UK August 2025 • US August 2025 • 232 pages • 6 bw illus
HB 9781350425811 • £85.00 / $115.00
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£76.50 / $103.94
Series: Methuen Drama Engage Methuen Drama World English
The Contemporary History Play Staging English and American Pasts
Benjamin Poore, University of York, UK
The Contemporary History Play asks what happens when a new mode of interpretation is applied to contemporary history plays and tracks the evolving uses of history in 21st-century playwriting across the UK. Benjamin Poore argues that contemporary British playwriting that invokes history can be positioned on a spectrum that ranges from recovering untold stories, which offer an additional narrative to dominant understandings of history, to challenging the very foundations of historical knowledge itself.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 240 pages
PB 9781350462106 • £28.99 / $39.95
Previously published in HB 9781350169630
ePub 9781350169647 • £76.50 / $103.94
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Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama
Virtual Models in Theatre, Art and Architecture
Making Worlds
Thea Brejzek, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia & Lawrence Wallen, University of Technology, Sydney, Australia
What is the impact of virtual models in contemporary theatre, art and architecture? This volume explores their evolution, their transformative spatial potential, and their capacity for worldmaking using a range of case studies drawn from global contemporary theatre, art and architecture practice. It draws upon examples including Japanese artist collective Dumb Type, Chinese artist Lu Yang, US-Iranian artist Morehshin Allahyari, Björk, and the UK research agency Forensic Architecture. A historical overview provides context to the rapid development of virtual technologies, including the work of Superstudio and Archigram and art, performance and technology collaborations from 1960s New York onward.
UK October 2025 • US October 2025 • 208 pages • 35 bw illus
HB 9781350449800 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350449817 • £76.50 / $103.94
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Series: Performance and Design Methuen Drama
Forms of Drama
Simon Shepherd, Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, University of London, UK
Jingju - Beijing/Peking Opera History, Practice, and Aesthetics
Xing Fan, University of Toronto, Canada
This book traces the history of jingju (Beijing/ Peking opera) from its origin during the 1790s to the present through three lenses. First, it introduces the stage practices that shape a jingju production, and details for the reader the practitioner’s experience during the developmental creative process, in rehearsals, and behind the curtain. Second, it traces jingju’s development with close analyses of case studies, and sheds light on the process of jingju’s transformation into its contemporary form. And third, it defines and interprets jingju aesthetics’ notion of the beautiful and how this sense of beauty is communicated through stylization.
UK December 2025 • US December 2025 • 192 pages • 2 bw illus
HB 9781350174689 • £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350174696 • £58.50 / $79.64
ePdf 9781350174702 • £58.50 / $79.64
Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
Noh
Japanese Classical Dance-drama
Kaoru Nakao, Osaka University, Japan & Diego Pellecchia, Kyoto Sangyo University, Japan
Provides the reader with a comprehensive overview of the rich traditions of noh, traditional Japanese dance-drama. Drawing from up-todate, specialized scholarship in Japanese and English, it takes an accessible approach useful for a range of readers, including students and researchers of Japanese culture and performing arts, as well as theatre practitioners. After providing an overview of the art, it traces its history from its origins to the present day. It also covers the different types of plays in the repertoire, and delves into staging conventions, including movement, music, and chant, as well as costumes, masks, and stage properties.
UK February 2025 US February 2025 208 pages 10 bw illus
HB 9781350371446 • £65.00 / $90.00
ePub 9781350371453 • £58.50 / $79.64
ePdf 9781350371460 • £58.50 / $79.64
Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama
Artistic Collaboration, Exile, and Brecht
A New Intellectual History, 1900-1950
Katherine Hollander, Tufts University, USA
A revealing history of the intimate group around Bertolt Brecht which produced some of the most important works of 20th-century drama, literature, and theory while in exile from Nazi Germany. De-centering Brecht and contextualizing him in a group of peers which included Helene Weigel, Karin Michaëlis, Margarete Steffin, and Walter Benjamin, this book investigates how they understood their collaborative work in the context of their commitments to fighting fascism and building socialism. It reveals not just how the group worked but how they understood that work as an embodiment of their evolving ideas about socialism, antifascism, and collectivity.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus
HB 9781350433588 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350433595 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350433601 £76.50 / $103.94
Methuen Drama
A Theatre of Powerlessness
Acts of Knowledge and the Performance of the Many
Edited by Edit Kaldor, Independent scholar, the Netherlands & Joe Kelleher, Roehampton University, UK
A Theatre of Powerlessness departs from Edit Kaldor’s Inventory of Powerlessness (2013-16), a multi-year theatre project in which hundreds of participants articulated their emergent knowledge about contemporary forms of powerlessness. It is aimed, among others, at student readers in an increasingly diversified educational context, who are learning to develop models of transformative, creative practice with which to put their own experiences of the world to work. Combining process and performance documentation of Inventory, with critical analysis of a global range of contemporary performance practices, A Theatre of Powerlessness offers practical considerations for an extended 21st century theatre aesthetic.
UK May 2025 • US May 2025 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus
HB 9781350233584 • £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350233591 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350233607 £76.50 / $103.94
Series: Thinking Through Theatre • Methuen Drama
Four Contemporary American Playwrights
Exploring Identity
Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia, UK
The fourth in a series of books exploring the careers of 28 contemporary American playwrights, this book covers the work of Brandon Jacobs-Jenkins, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Stephen Karam and Lucas Hnath. These awardwinning playwrights deploy different dramatic strategies, even as they make their audiences complicit, in plays which range widely in styles and approach. Christopher Bigsby interweaves analysis of their work with biographical information, contemporary responses and the writers’ own comments on their work, drawn from interviews. He reflects on identity in the work of these playwrights, asking the extent to which it is central or incidental to their work.
UK November 2025 • US November 2025 • 224 pages
HB 9781350538801 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350538818 £76.50 / $103.94
ePdf 9781350538825 £76.50 / $103.94 Methuen Drama
Tragedy as a Travelling Form
Itineraries from Thespis to Today
Edited by Philipp Lammers, University of Konstanz, Germany, Juliane Vogel, University of Konstanz, Germany & Christina Wald, University of Konstanz, Germany
Covering a broad historical spectrum from Greek Antiquity to the 21st century, this open access book explores tragedy as a travelling form, asking how its formal features have impacted its travels, and how these travels have shaped tragedy’s forms. Bringing together an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars of classics, English, German and French literature, postcolonial literature, theatre and performance studies and musicology, this book provides a multifaceted overview of travelling form processes.
The ebook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by the University of Konstanz.
UK June 2025 • US June 2025 • 280 pages • 3 bw illus
HB 9781350466364 £85.00 / $115.00
ePub 9781350466371 £00.00 / $00.00
ePdf 9781350466388 • £00.00 / $00.00
Methuen Drama
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