Bloomsbury English and Drama for Schools Books Catalogue

Bloomsbury English and Drama for Schools Plays, critical texts, GCSE and A Level student editions and teacher guides 2022

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Welcome Welcome to our 2022 English and Drama catalogue!

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Inside you’ll find the latest play editions for your core set texts, inspiring new plays to introduce to your students, and essential teacher guides for every English and Drama teacher.

Additional teacher resources

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Some of our 2022 highlights include three new Student Editions of Arthur Miller’s greatest plays, Death of a Salesman, A View from the Bridge and The Crucible (see page 5). Our popular Plays for Young People series continues to grow with Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists, the first-of-its kind anthology with three plays

by BIPOC women (see page 8). The highly anticipated collection of Monologues and Duologues For Young Performers (see page 11) publishes in May.

NEW FOR 2022 Look out for these new titles throughout the catalogue

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Dennis Kelly

Key themes and discussion points for Dennis Kelly’s DNA These ideas are taken from, and explored further, in the new Methuen Drama Student Edition of DNA with introductory notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani.

ANALYSING CHARACTERS KEY THEMES AND QUESTIONS TO EXPLORE HISTORICAL AND SOCIAL CONTEXT •

DNA was Kelly’s first play to be produced at the National Theatre, originally commissioned as part of ‘Connections’, where each year 10 established authors write plays of under an hour for school pupils and youth theatres to perform.

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In Kelly’s theatre, violence is presented as a human impulse, and also as the result of historical and political events. Personal stories about school pupils, office workers, siblings or neighbours spread outwards, becoming critiques of global politics.

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Kelly wrote DNA during the ‘War on Terror’ at the start of the 21st century while the world witnessed violent attacks on civilians, invasion, occupation, war, rebellion and torture.

Why do you think Dennis Kelly represents violence in his theatre?

Dennis Kelly treats themes common to us all: love, death, violence, power, inequality, ecology. What is unique about Kelly is how he grafts these timeless themes on to the everyday lives of people in average, recognisable settings in contemporary Britain.

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Fear. Why do the characters in DNA find their lives frightening? Why might they find the world frightening?

When analysing characters or preparing to play them, consider their relationship within their pair, and with the wider group.

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John Tate and Lou. Lou is a minor character, her presence serving mainly to illustrate John Tate’s dominance over her and the rest of the gang. Why do you think John Tate is the only character with a surname?

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Leah and Phil are DNA’s central pairing. Their relationship might appear dysfunctional, since no matter what Leah does, she gets no reaction from Phil.

However, their dynamic also works, since he provides a sounding board for her numerous philosophical and sociological theories, and she provides him with the company he evidently misses when she is gone. What is the significance of Phil’s eating?

Violence. The violence in the play isn’t shown – we’re told about it. How can you use lighting or sound to convey it?

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DNA and nature. Which characters would you describe as ‘chimps’? Which would you describe as ‘bonobos’? Or are humans not that clear-cut?

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Fate and transformation. Which characters in DNA break the cycle of violence?

While Jan and Mark are not main characters, they play the important role of opening each of the four sections of the play, or ‘acts’. In pairs, practise Jan and Mark’s ‘curtain-raisers’. See if you can ‘speak as one’.

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SETTING AND STAGE DESIGN Kelly gives no indication of the decade or locality in which the play is set, although we can assume, from references to the names of supermarkets or brands of sweets, that it is the UK. DNA is set in a street, field and wood, and alternates quickly between settings. This means you are encouraged to find symbolic, imaginative ways to conjure a bustling public street, open field and shadowy wood.

For more resources watch the Dennis Kelly and Clare Finburgh Delijani Q&A at bloomsbury.com/dna-9781350188044

How would you depict the street, field and woods for the audience? What colours and textures would you use?

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Methuen Drama Student Editions Why choose a Methuen Drama Student Edition for your set text play choice?  Highly regarded and popular student series, edited by experts in their field.  Includes the full text of the play and an edited introductory commentary.  Analysis of the play's context, themes, characters, dramatic form and staging possibilities.  Reviews the play’s production history and adaptations.  Provides a chronology of the playwright’s life and work.

"A masterclass study book packed with sharp, reflective analysis that doesn't patronise."

Teach Secondary, review of Methuen Drama Student Edition of DNA

 Offers suggestions for further reading, a bibliography and questions for further study.

DNA Dennis Kelly Edited by Clare Finburgh Delijani A new edition of Dennis Kelly's popular play DNA which centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances.

When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done.

Special to this edition:  An in-depth analysis of the play’s key themes and characters including; the role of violence, torture and human rights abuse, the importance of the individual as well as the community, DNA and nature, and fate.  A look at the historical and social context of the play including Dennis Kelly’s past plays, and the inclusion of personal stories and historical events that inspired his writing.  A review of past performances, and setting and stage design with an emphasis on genre, humour and scenography.

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Plays for Young People Plays written specifically for young people to perform and study The Plays for Young People series includes single plays and anthologies aimed at young performers to discover and perform. Exploring themes and issues that young people face today, these plays offer variety and interest to suit everyone. Which one will your students choose?

NEW FOR 2022 AUG 2022

Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists Three Plays by BIPOC Women Mojisola Adebayo, Hannah Khalil and Amy Ng Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway This first-of-its-kind anthology combines a diverse collection of award-winning produced plays from the UK’s most revolutionary Black, Asian and POC female writers with bespoke multimedia learning guides hosted on a companion website.

Coming Soon

It offers young activists and global citizens aged 16+, as well as teachers and creatives at any level of experience, the opportunity to diversify their education and enhance their understanding of plays, world politics and social justice.

PB | 9781350294998 | £21.99

Resources included on companion website:

Plays include: Muhamad Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil

 intimate interviews with the writers and some of the original creative teams  photographs and video recordings detailing the plays’ research journey

Acceptance by Amy Ng

 dynamic exercises that explore the language and characters in the plays

AGE 16+

NEW PLAYS TO EXPLORE JAN 2022

APR 2022

AGE 16+

AGE 6+

Three Plays for Young Performers

To The Good People of Gaza

Rory Mullarkey

Theatre for Young People

by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions

This collection of three plays for young performers from multi-award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey offers astutely relevant and powerfully theatrical pieces of drama. Each play offers large and flexible casts for non-gender specific performers, that are perfect for performances and study by young performers aged 16-23.

PB | 9781350293632 | £12.99

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Jackie Lubeck Edited by Samer Al-Saber The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together 19 plays produced by Theatre Day Productions, one of the foremost community theatres in the Middle East.

PB | 9781350261815 | £24.99

AGE 6+

Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume Two Seven Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely Edited by Wonder Fools Seven exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools with guidance for staging the plays.

AGE 16+

AGE 16+

Bones

The Ancestors

Tanika Gupta

Lakesha Arie-Angelo

A play based on Catherine Corless' discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland in 2014.

Co-commissioned by the National Youth Theatre and English Heritage, this sitespecific play gives a voice to the Black revolutionaries imprisoned at Portchester Castle in 1796.

PB | 9781350280632 | £10.99

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Plays for Young People SET TEXTS FOR PEARSON EDEXCEL GCSE DRAMA

AGE 16-18

AGE 16-18

AGE 16-18

AGE 16-18

A Doll’s House

Gone Too Far!

Antigone

The Free9

Adapted by Tanika Gupta

Bola Agbaje

Adapted by Roy Williams

In-Sook Chappell

Tanika Gupta re-imagines Ibsen's classic play of gender politics through the lens of British colonialism.

A comic and astute play about identity, history and culture, in a world where respect is always demanded but rarely given.

Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this classic tale vividly to life.

A North Korean-based drama that is inspired by a true story. A play of hope, escape and cultural difference.

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PB | 9781350007505 | £11.99 | Age 11-16

PB | 9781474251037 | £11.99 | Age 16-18

For primary Drama teachers

David Wood Plays for 5-12 Year Olds The Gingerbread Man; The See-Saw Tree; The BFG; Save the Human; Mother Goose's Golden Christmas Edited by Paul Bateson Looking for a whizzpoppingly wonderful collection of plays for your whole class? Want some ready-made, delumptious lesson plans to accompany them?

Well, look no further because this is a scrumdiddlyumptious selection of David Wood's plays; paired with all the information and materials you need to use them in class or on stage, edited by Paul Bateson, an experienced primary-level drama teacher.

PB | 9781350174924 | £19.99

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Modern Plays Methuen Drama’s Modern Plays series is world-famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights.

It features over 1000 plays and continues to grow alongside the staging of new work. Below is a small selection of some of our newest published plays that appeal to students at different levels for study and performance.

Visit bloomsbury. com/plays-for-gcse for more

SUITABLE FOR GCSE 14-16

Hymn Lolita Chakrabarti Featuring music from Gil and Benny's lives, Lolita Chakrabarti's searching, soulful new play asks what it takes to be a good father, brother or son.

PB | 9781350243057 | £10.99

Mugabe, My Dad and Me

The War of the Worlds

Out West

Changing Destiny

Tonderai Munyevu

Tanika Gupta, Simon Stephens and Roy Williams

Ben Okri

Isley Lynn

This play charts the rise and fall of one of the most controversial politicians of the 20th century through the lens of Tonderai's family story and his relationship with his father.

Inspired by H.G. Wells' sci-fi novel and Orson Welles' classic radio play, this legendary science fiction thriller is playfully reimagined as a play for our era of Fake News and 'alternative facts'.

Three new plays from three of the UK's most celebrated playwrights. The plays explore race, identity and our sense of place and purpose, presented together as one piece, Out West.

An epic new adaptation of the 4,000-year-old Egyptian poem about the Warrior King Sinuhe written

by Booker Prize-winner Ben Okri that captures the essence of humanity and the complexities of immigration.

PB | 9781350186071 | £10.99

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For more, visit bloomsbury.com/ plays-for-alevel

SUITABLE FOR A LEVEL 16-18

Aftertaste

NW Trilogy

Rough Girls

Freedom Project

Ciara Elizabeth Smyth

Moira Buffini, Roy Williams and Suhayla El-Bushra

Tara Lynne O'Neill

Luke Barnes

A collection of three vivid stories, told over one performance, that remember and celebrate people who changed the course of history.

The untold story of the Belfast women who stepped onto a pitch in society shocking shorts and footie boots, a ball at their feet and a point to prove.

Melding lived experience with creative theatre-making, refugees Mo and Hossein share their stories of migration and leaving home as unaccompanied minors.

PB | 9781350288911 | £10.99

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Aftertaste is a new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth that offers a theatrical exploration into a world full of violence, greed and food.

PB | 9781350287778 | £10.99

The Boy With Two Hearts Hamed Amiri, adapted for the stage by Phil Porter A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her execution.

PB | 9781350294554 | £10.99

Inspire students to craft their own scripts for the stage with this free

BITESIZE PLAYWRIGHTING EBOOK In collaboration with touring theatre company, Tamasha, we’ve produced this FREE eBook of the 10 winning short plays from the Bitesize Playwrighting competition, written by students aged 1217 (and a Drama teacher!).

Download your free eBook from bloomsbury.com/DramaForSchools

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Monologues and Duologues Monologues and Duologues For Young Performers Emma-Louise Tinniswood

MAY 2022

Do you struggle to find appropriate scenes and monologues for young performers?

Whilst there are so many plays to choose from, the selection of material for auditions, exams and competitions can often be overwhelming. Monologues and Duologues For Young Performers offers a new collection of original monologues, duologues and scenes for young actors aged 7 to 14 that come ready-made for performance.

PB | 9781350283725 | £14.99

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Monologues and Duologues for Young Performers

Gretel Wait! Maybe we shouldn’t eat it just yet. I mean it could be someone’s house.

Hansel

I don’t care about that!

Gretel Well I do, imagine if someone ate our house?

Hansel I don’t think I would mind, hopefully they would eat our stepmother too.

Gretel That’s not very nice.

Hansel Well neither is she. Now, I quite like the look of those candy windows. (He goes off to eat the windows, leaving Gretel looking worried.)

Background and characters Based on the traditional German fairy tale Hansel and Gretel, this scene explores what happens when the two children are lost in the woods and are trying to find their way out. While Gretel is trying to find the way, Hansel is not being very helpful and is not only worrying about his hunger but gets distracted by other things. He sees a little bird who is flying around him and he has the urge to follow the bird. Gretel is unsure but gives in, as she sees no other option. The bird leads them further into the woods where it becomes increasingly dense and creepy. When they finally see the cottage made of candy, they are relieved to have finally found food and begin to nibble away at the walls and windows.

Location The woods Time period Any time Who are the characters talking to?

Each other

Each scene is accompanied by notes on character, background and setting as well as a range of drama activities and questions to ask as an actor, making it an ideal resource for those taking part in LAMDA and Trinity Speech and Drama examinations as well as for drama competitions, other examinations, auditions and classroom exploration.

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Play Collections NATIONAL THEATRE CONNECTIONS “Connections is the National Theatre’s annual, nationwide youth theatre festival. It is a celebration of youth theatre, new writing, creativity and partnership, and above all the importance of access for young people to the arts.”

– Kirsten Adam, Connections Producer, National Theatre JUN 2022

National Theatre Connections 2022 10 Plays for Young Performers

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The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. This 2022 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2022 Connections Festival.

The anthology contains ten play scripts, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.

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Hear the 2020/21 playwrights talk about their play inspiration Watch on Bloomsbury Academic YouTube: Introducing the plays of the 2020/21 National Theatre Connections festival

National Theatre Connections 2020/21 11 Plays for Young People This special 2020/21 pack captures the two new plays written for the 2021 festival responding to the restrictions in place due to Covid-19. It also includes the National Theatre Connections 2020 anthology which features 9 plays, 8 of which were included in the 2021 festival performances.

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The RSC Shakespeare PUBLISHING APRIL 2022

The RSC Shakespeare: The Complete Works 2nd Edition Edited by Jonathan Bate and Eric Rasmussen “The text of any Shakespeare play is a living negotiable entity: scholarship and theatre practice work together to keep the plays alive and vividly present.”

– Gregory Doran, RSC Artistic Director Developed in partnership with the Royal Shakespeare Company, this Complete Works of William Shakespeare combines exemplary textual scholarship with beautiful design. Curated by expert editors Sir Jonathan Bate and Professor Eric Rasmussen, the text in this collection is based on the iconic 1623 First Folio: the first and original Complete Works lovingly assembled by Shakespeare’s fellow actors, and the version of Shakespeare’s text preferred by many actors and directors today.

New to this edition: • Colour photographs from a vibrant range of RSC productions • Stage Notes document the staging choices in 100 RSC productions • Expanded to include both The Passionate Pilgrim and A Lover’s Complaint • A range of aids to the reader such as on-page notes explaining unfamiliar terms and key fact boxes providing plot summaries and additional helpful context.

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IN THE CLASSROOM Drama Online is an award-winning digital library of 3,500 playtexts, over 400 audio plays and 365 hours of video from leading theatre publishers and companies. It offers a complete multimedia experience of theatre.

Each collection is available as a stand-alone purchase.

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Videos are supported by an interactive searchable transcript player and closed captioning, as well as video clipping functionality.

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