Drama & Performance Studies

A Director’s Journey through the First Folio

Greg Doran This book charts the personal and professional journey of Greg Doran, Artistic Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company since 2012 and "one of the great Shakespearians of his generation" (The Sunday Times). During his career, Doran has directed or produced all of the plays within Shakespeare's First Folio. The book includes RSC images and each chapter looks at a different play, considering the choices made and weaving in both autobiographical detail and background on the RSC, as well as giving insights on collaborations with major theatre-makers.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 344 pages • 32 colour illus HB 9781350330191 • £25.00 / $35.00 ePub 9781350330207 • £22.50 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350330214 • £22.50 / $31.59 Methuen Drama World English

William Shakespeare: A Brief Life

Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA One of the appealing dynamics of the Shakespeare myth is the contrast of his humble beginnings and his lofty achievements, persuading us that genius might blossom anywhere. William Shakespeare: A Brief Life honours these myths, but also explores some of the mysteries: why Shakespeare left Stratford, who he ran with in London, why he put down his pen and at last came home again. Ultimately, the book explores the compelling contrast between the mere 52 years Shakespeare lived, with the prolonged after lives of his work and his story.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350156753 • £14.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781350156746 • £45.00 / $61.00 ePub 9781350156777 • £13.49 / $19.22 ePdf 9781350156760 • £13.49 / $19.22 Series: Arden Insights • The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare in the Theatre: Sir William Davenant and the Duke’s Company

Amanda Eubanks Winkler, Syracuse University, USA & Richard Schoch, Queen’s University Belfast, UK The first performance-based account of Restoration Shakespeare, this study reveals how under the leadership of Sir William Davenant, founder of the Duke’s Company, Restoration theatres performed Shakespeare's works in a radically new way. The eBook editions of this work are available open access under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com. Open access was funded by Queens University Belfast.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 232 pages • 12 bw illus PB 9781350273481 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350130579 ePub 9781350130586 • £0.00 / $0.00 ePdf 9781350130593 • £0.00 / $0.00 Series: Shakespeare in the Theatre • The Arden Shakespeare

Liberating Shakespeare

Adaptation, Trauma and Empowerment for Young Adult Audiences

Edited by Jennifer Flaherty, Georgia College, USA & Deborah Uman, Weber State University, USA The collective trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic. Digital shaming. Violence against women. Racial slurs and injustice. These are just some of the issues confronted in Liberating Shakespeare, which asks how Shakespeare can be used to address the traumas faced by many young people today. Focusing on adaptations of Shakespeare's plays that empower young audiences by addressing issues of oppression, trauma and resistance, this collection showcases a variety of approaches to understanding, adapting and teaching Shakespeare's works. It argues that YA Shakespeare represents the diverse concerns of today's youth and offers hope for an uncertain future.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350320253 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350320260 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350320277 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350320284 • £19.79 / $27.47 Series: Shakespeare and Adaptation • The Arden Shakespeare

Global Shakespeare and Social Injustice

Towards a Transformative Encounter

Edited by Chris Thurman, Wits University, South Africa & Sandra Young, University of Cape Town, South Africa This collection probes the relationship between Shakespeare studies and the intractable forms of social injustice that infuse cultural, political and economic life. Chapters help us to imagine what radical and transformative pedagogy, theatre-making and scholarship might look like. The contributors both invoke and invert the paradigm of Global Shakespeare, building on the vital contributions of this scholarly field over the past few decades but also suggesting ways in which it cannot quite accommodate the various ‘global Shakespeares’ presented in the book.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 2 bw illus HB 9781350335097 • £80.00 / $110.00 ePub 9781350335103 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350335110 • £72.00 / $100.29 Series: Global Shakespeare Inverted • The Arden Shakespeare Performance and Pedagogy

Deanne Williams, York University, Canada This is the first study of the medieval and early modern girl actor, exploring the girl actor, along with girl singers, authors and translators, as a broad and coherent expression of 'girl culture'. Contradicting previous scholarly assumptions about the early modern stage as male-dominated, this evidence reveals girls’ participation and role in shaping medieval religious drama, Tudor civic pageants and royal entries, Elizabethan country house entertainments, and Stuart court and household masques.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 336 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350343207 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350343214 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350343221 • £76.50 / $105.78 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and the Challenge of the Contemporary

Performance, Politics and Aesthetics

Francesca Clare Rayner, Universidade do Minho, Portugal Francesca Clare Rayner highlights the diversity and experimentalism of contemporary performance practices in Portugal. She references key debates within contemporary performance studies on intermediality, globalization and political participation and analyses their configurations within a Portuguese context. These case studies represent clear alternatives to the market-driven view of the contemporary as the continual reproduction of the new and the topical for global consumers, recasting the contemporary instead as the site of tragedy and crisis in a Europe fragmented by years of economic austerity and political divisions around Brexit and ecological vacillation.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350269071 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350182158 ePub 9781350182165 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350182172 • £67.50 / $93.42 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Political Imagination

The Historicism of Setting

Philip Goldfarb Styrt, St. Ambrose University, USA This book argues that to better understand Shakespeare’s plays it is essential to look at the conceptions of the political societies available to him. It offers us new readings of neglected critical moments in key plays by investigating the political contexts and cultures at work in Shakespeare's worlds. Settings are a powerful component in Shakespeare’s worlds that not only function as physical locations, but are a mechanism through which he communicates the political and social orders of the plays.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781350277878 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350173972 ePub 9781350173996 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350174009 • £67.50 / $93.42 The Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare / Text

Contemporary Readings in Textual Studies, Editing and Performance

Edited by Claire M. L. Bourne, Pennsylvania State University, USA Written by 20 leading experts on textual matters, each chapter challenges a single entrenched binary—such as book/theater, source/adaptation, text/paratext, canon/apocrypha, sense/nonsense, extant/ephemeral, material/digital, and original/copy—that has come to both define and limit the way we read, analyze, teach, perform, and edit Shakespeare today. The chapters in Shakespeare / Text make strong cases for challenging received wisdom and offer new, portable methods of treating 'the text' (in its myriad instantiations) that will be useful to scholars, editors, theatre practitioners, teachers and librarians.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 464 pages • 20 bw illus PB 9781350344556 • £34.99 / $47.95 Previously published in HB 9781350128149 ePub 9781350128156 • £108.00 / $149.75 ePdf 9781350128163 • £108.00 / $149.75 Series: Arden Shakespeare Intersections • The Arden Shakespeare

Iphigenia Taxopoulou, Mitos 21 This green guide covers all areas of organisational change, from adopting an environmental mission statement and “greening” the office to running energy saving building audits. It is an easy-to-use guide, suitable for both those are beginning their sustainability journey as well as those who are some way ahead in their green theatre projects. This is as much about reducing the sector’s measurable impacts on the environment, as it is about using the theatre’s enormous potential to shift existing cultural norms and contribute to a change of paradigm.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 240 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781350215702 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350215719 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350215733 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350215726 • £22.49 / $31.59 Methuen Drama

Theatre Across Borders

Abhishek Majumdar Drawing on his extensive experience working across the globe, playwright Abhishek Majumdar considers why we make theatre and how we see it in different parts of the world. Via a far-reaching and provocative collection of essays, Majumdar explores how different cultures conceive theatre; the ways in which theatre across the world mirrors its socio-political and philosophical climate; how, for thousands of years, theatre has been a tool to both disrupt and to heal; and how, even within the many differences, there are universals from which we can all learn.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350195288 • £22.99 / $30.95 • HB 9781350195295 • £70.00 / $95.00 ePub 9781350195264 • £20.69 / $28.84 ePdf 9781350195271 • £20.69 / $28.84 Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity

Edited by DeRon S. Williams, Loyola University Chicago, USA, Khalid Y. Long, University of Georgia, USA & Martine Kei Green-Rogers, DePaul University, USA How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion and solidarity to precipitate change? This collection critiques and celebrates Black theatrical events to provide a fresh understanding of why Black art continues to matter. It features a wide variety of contributions which explore the nuances and varied forms of Black performance in the 21st century in North America and beyond. The book helps fill a major critical gap in our understanding of the relationship between contemporary Black identity, performance, and activism.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 272 pages PB 9781350252912 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350252929 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350252943 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350252936 • £17.99 / $24.72 Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances • Methuen Drama

Theatre Spaces 1920-2020

Finding the Fun in Functionalism

Iain Mackintosh This hands-on account of the creation of theatre spaces spanning a century is part memoir, part impassioned call to rethink the design of our theatre spaces and the future of live theatre. As the originator of theatre designs as diverse as the Cottesloe in 1977, Glyndebourne in 1994 and the Orange Tree Theatre in 1991, Iain Mackintosh discovered why shows worked in some theatres and not in others. This informs this account of the creation of many of the most well-known theatre spaces in Britain, the USA, Australia, Norway and more.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 64 colour and 18 bw illus PB 9781350056244 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350056251 • £95.00 / $130.00 ePub 9781350056268 • £26.99 / $37.08 ePdf 9781350056275 • £26.99 / $37.08 Methuen Drama

A Casting Director’s Guide for the Actor

Merri Sugarman & Tracy Moss This book helps all actors, and those who support them, learn what it takes to be a pro. A treasure trove of advice to help the actor actually get the job. It stems from the author's 20+ years of experience in every aspect of professional casting within television, film and theater. It gives an insight into the hierarchies of the various types of casting directors across the industry and how that practical knowledge can benefit aspiring actors and increase their chance of success as they transition from craft to career.

UK April 2023 • US June 2023 • 176 pages PB 9781350276017 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350276024 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350276031 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350276048 • £17.99 / $24.72 Methuen Drama A Cultural History of Carrie the Musical

Chris Adams Featuring over 50 interviews with original cast members, creatives, crew and audience members, Out For Blood pieces together the surprising, hilarious and often-moving inside story of Carrie The Musical to discover how this ‘horror of a Broadway musical’ lived, died and was subsequently resurrected as a mainstream success story.

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350320536 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350320543 • £65.00 / $90.00 ePub 9781350320567 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350320550 • £19.79 / $27.47 Methuen Drama

Reviewing the Situation

The British Musical from Noël Coward to Lionel Bart

John Snelson, Royal Opera House, UK From the lasting hits of Me and My Girl, The Dancing Years, The Boy Friend and Oliver! to the successes of Bitter Sweet, Bless the Bride and Expresso Bongo, the British musical in its formative years has appeared in strikingly different guises. This authoritative study traces what made these shows successes in the West End and how their individual qualities combine in a uniquely British interpretation of the genre.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw HB 9781350279582 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350279612 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350279605 • £76.50 / $105.78 Methuen Drama

Louise Lecavalier

Dance, Labour, Culture

MJ Thompson, Concordia University, Canada The first critical study of Louise Lecavalier, principal dancer with Montreal-based company La La La Human Steps from 1981 to 1999 and single most iconic dancer of her generation. This book looks broadly at the figure of the dancer and their contributions to dance aesthetics and cultural politics. Importantly, it focuses on the cultural work of the dancer, rather than choreographer, prioritizing the dancer's voice and shining light on the generally unseen labour of (often women) dancers in producing the historical movements of the discipline.

UK October 2023 • US October 2023 • 224 pages • 40 bw illus HB 9781350195202 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350195219 • £67.50 / $93.42 ePdf 9781350195226 • £67.50 / $93.42 Methuen Drama

DRAMA & PERFORMANCE STUDIES - METHUEN DRAMA – Acting / Musical Theatre / Dance

Stanton B. Gardner, Jr., University of Tennessee, USA From discussions on the somatic underpinnings of the body that medicine and theatre take as their subject, through to the historical association of theatre and contagion, this brief study considers the institutional contexts of theatre’s medical performances in the early 21st century. This volume also explores the pervasive role of doctors and the practitioners of alternative medicine in Western theatre and the role of patients on and off stage.

UK January 2023 • US January 2023 • 104 pages PB 9781350330153 • £9.99 / $12.95 ePub 9781350330177 • £8.99 / $12.35 ePdf 9781350330160 • £8.99 / $12.35 Series: Theatre And • Methuen Drama

Theatres of War

Contemporary Perspectives

Edited by Lauri Scheyer, Hunan Normal University, China Why have so many writers and audiences turned to theatre to try to resolve overwhelming topics of pain and suffering? Historically, theatre has played an important part in encompassing and preserving significant human experiences. Plays about global issues, including terrorism and war, are being explored more in plays and we are in an era of increased interest in the role played by theatre in political events. In this contemporary collection of essays, a gathering of diverse contributors explain theatre’s special ability to generate dialogue and promote healing when dealing with human tragedy.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 216 pages PB 9781350264830 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350132924 ePub 9781350132955 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350132948 • £76.50 / $105.78 Methuen Drama Staging Crisis, Memory and Nationhood

Edited by Miriam Haughton, University of Galway, Ireland, Alinne Balduino P. Fernandes, Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil & Pieter Verstraete, University of Groningen, the Netherlands and Free University Berlin, Germany This volume explores how theatre and performance creates a vital stage for acts and displays of commemoration. It considers the interplay between theatre, performance and commemoration and cultural and social political issues across the globe, drawing together case studies from across Europe, the Middle East, Asia, Africa and Latin America.

UK May 2023 • US May 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781350306769 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350306776 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350306783 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama

Avatars, Activism and Postdigital Performance

Precarious Intermedial Identities

Edited by Liam Jarvis, University of Essex, UK & Karen Savage, University of Lincoln, UK Considering how technology is reshaping performance, this timely collection reveals how we engage in performance practices through expanded notions of intermediality. It examines the artist as activist and avatar, and how digital models of performance problematize and expand our discussions of identity. Using a range of theatre and film performance examples, including Avatar and Calpurnia Descending, chapters explore a variety of topics, including the uncertain boundaries of the body in mediatized cultures, machine algorithms, apps and digital legacy.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 200 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781350270534 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350159310 ePub 9781350159327 • £72.00 / $100.29 ePdf 9781350159334 • £72.00 / $100.29 Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Engage

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

Sarah Kane’s Theatre of Psychic Life

Theatre, Thought and Mental Suffering

Leah Sidi

The first book to focus exclusively on playwright Sarah Kane’s approach to mind and mental health, bringing together archival material, healthcare contexts and contemporary performances. As such, it offers an important re-evaluation of Kane’s oeuvre, revealing the relationship between theatre and mind, which lies at the heart of her theatrical projects. Drawing on performance theory, psychoanalysis and neuroscience, this book argues that Kane’s innovations generated a ‘dramaturgy of psychic life’, which re-shape the encounter between stage and audience. It uses previously unseen archival material and contemporary productions to uncover the mechanics of this innovative theatre practice.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 224 pages HB 9781350283121 • £85.00 / $115.00 ePub 9781350283138 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350283145 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Performing Arousal

Precarious Bodies and Frames of Representation

Edited by Julia Listengarten, USA & Yana Meerzon, University of Ottawa What is the connection between arousal and precarity in performance? Drawing on the complicated relationship between arousing images and the frames of their representability, this original collection of articles considers arousal as a mode of inquiry and encourages new ways of examining the notion of the precarious body in political performance. From multiple and diverse perspectives and thinking within political and queer performances of protest, the collection is divided into four sections: Pleasured Bodies, Political Bodies, Trans/ Bodies and Abject Bodies.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 272 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350279469 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781350155633 ePub 9781350155640 • £76.50 / $105.78 ePdf 9781350155657 • £76.50 / $105.78 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Willy Russell Edited by Katie Beswick, University of the Arts London, UK Educating Rita portrays a working-class Liverpool woman's hunger for education, by acclaimed writer Willy Russell. This new Student Edition, edited by Katie Beswick, includes an introduction covering the play's context; chronology; dramatic devices; critical reception; production history; and key themes such as class and identity, popular culture and education. It also includes a comparison of the Ritas created by a variety of performers such as Julie Walters, Clare Sweeney, Leanne Best, Laura dos Santos and Lashana Lynch.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 192 pages PB 9781350200937 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350200951 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350200944 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama

Staging Violence Against Women and Girls

Plays and Interviews

Isley Lynn, Raúl Quirós Molina, Bahar Brunton, Karis E. Halsall, Dacia Maraini & Renato Chiocca Edited by Daniela Cavallaro, University of Auckland, New Zealand, Luciana d’Arcangeli, Flinders University, Australia & Claire Kennedy, Griffith University. Australia Translated by Luciana d’Arcangeli, Flinders University, Australia & Sharon Wood This collection brings together three international and contemporary plays that each denounce violence against women, alongside interviews with the creators and practitioners who brought them to life. The three plays are accompanied by interviews with their writers, directors and producers, who discuss the conception and staging of their plays, the audience response and the critical reviews, highlighting the issues and goals of bringing violence against women on stage. Their hope is to de-glamourize the staging of violence, to give voice to the survivors of gendered violence, and to create awareness and empathy within the audiences.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 256 pages • 5 bw illus PB 9781350329706 • £24.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350329713 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350329720 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350329737 • £22.49 / $31.59 Methuen Drama World English

Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists

Three Plays by BIPOC Women

Mojisola Adebayo, Queen Mary, University of London, UK, Hannah Khalil & Amy Ng Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway & Sarudzayi Marufu

This first-of-its-kind anthology combines a diverse collection of awardwinning produced plays from the UK’s most revolutionary Black, Asian and POC female writers with bespoke multimedia learning guides. 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.

UK April 2023 • US April 2023 • 240 pages PB 9781350294998 • £21.99 / $29.95 ePub 9781350295018 • £19.79 / $27.47 ePdf 9781350295001 • £19.79 / $27.47 Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama World English

An Anthology of Contemporary Bengali Plays by Bratya Basu

Bratya Basu Edited by Nandita Banerjee Dhawan & Sam Kolodezh Translated by Mainak Banerjee & Arnab Banerji This anthology of six selected plays, written between 2000 and 2020 by Bratya Basu, is the first collection of Bengali plays that blends avant-garde, pop and traditional cultures with contemporary dramatic themes. The six plays, freshly translated into English, each bring a uniquely Bengali and Indian perspective on the intermingling of past and present, global and local, and magical and real in a postmodern pastiche about India today.

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781350289420 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350289437 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350289444 • £22.49 / $31.59 ePdf 9781350289451 • £22.49 / $31.59 Methuen Drama World English

Kieran Hurley Plays 1

Hitch; Beats; Heads Up; Mouthpiece; The Enemy

Kieran Hurley The first collection of work by multi-award-winning Scottish playwright Kieran Hurley, tackling class politics and the pull of individualism versus the power of community. It features an introduction by Scotsman theatre critic Joyce McMillan and includes works such as the previously unpublished Hitch (2010), play-turned-cult-film about the rave scene Beats (2012), and critically-acclaimed Fringe sensation Mouthpiece (2018).

UK February 2023 • US February 2023 • 232 pages PB 9781350334786 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350334809 • £17.99 / $24.72 ePdf 9781350334793 • £17.99 / $24.72 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English

Antigone

Inua Ellams A torn family. A hostile state. One heroic brother. One misguided son. One conflicted sister, and the second is on the run. A blistering retelling of the epic story from the writer of Barber Shop Chronicles, Inua Ellams.

UK September 2022 • US October 2022 • 96 pages PB 9781350368712 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350368729 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350368736 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Brown Boys Swim

Karim Khan Best friends Mohsen and Kash are gearing up for the biggest night of their lives – Jess Denver’s pool party. There’s just one problem... they can’t swim. Considering how systemic racism and societal pressures push certain people along a relentless current, Brown Boys Swim examines how we can be prevented from being and understanding our most authentic selves.

UK August 2022 • US September 2022 • 80 pages PB 9781350347502 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350347526 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350347519 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Between Two Fires

Sylvia Pankhurst Edited by Rachel Holmes Noah Adamson is the first Leader of the Labour Party; frequently torn between his socialism and principled support for votes for women on the one hand and the more reactionary views of too many of his colleagues. Sylvia Pankhurst wrote this previously unpublished play when imprisoned for sedition in the infamous HMP Holloway in 1920/21. Deprived of writing materials in solitary confinement, the legendary activist composed this dramatisation of earlier times with her beloved Keir Hardie – Labour’s founding leader – with a contraband pencil on prison issue toilet paper.

UK September 2022 • US December 2022 • 48 pages PB 9781350353848 • £12.99 / $17.95 ePub 9781350353862 • £11.69 / $16.47 ePdf 9781350353855 • £11.69 / $16.47 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Destiny

Florence Espeut-Nickless Destiny dreams big. She dreams glamour. She’s gonna be an MTV Base backing dancer, you watch. If J-Lo can make it outta the Bronx then Destiny can make it off the Hill Rise estate in Chippenham. Florence Espeut-Nickless’ debut play is a recipient of The Pleasance’s 2021 National Partnerships Award with Bristol Old Vic FERMENT and was shortlisted for Theatre West’s Write On Women Award.

UK July 2022 • US September 2022 • 64 pages PB 9781350354197 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350354210 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350354203 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Enough of Him

May Sumbwanyambe Based on a true story, Enough of Him explores the life of Joseph Knight, an African man enslaved by plantation owner Sir John Wedderburn and brought to Scotland to serve in his Perthshire mansion. Written by Glasgow-based writer May Sumbwanyambe, this compelling domestic drama is a thrilling exploration of power and its attendant tensions: between those who are enslaved and those who are free, servants and masters, and husbands and wives.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 80 pages PB 9781350377752 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350377769 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350377776 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

For A Palestinian

Bilal Hasna & Aaron Kilercioglu Bilal has always been obsessed with love stories. Here he tells you his favourite: the true story of Palestinian translator Wa’el Zuaiter. After receiving standing ovations and glowing audience reviews when it appeared as a work in progress in 2021, For A Palestinian returned to Camden People’s Theatre and transferred to the Bristol Old Vic in Autumn 2022.

UK September 2022 • US October 2022 • 56 pages PB 9781350368873 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350368897 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350368880 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Good

C. P. Taylor John Halder, a professor of literature, seems to be a good man. But by writing a book, John has unintentionally made himself a very desirable acquisition for the Nazi party... A profound and alarming examination of passivity and the rationalisation of evil. Originally published in 1982, this new edition was published to coincide with the West End revival in 2022 starring David Tennant.

UK October 2022 • US November 2022 • 96 pages PB 9781350376274 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350376298 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350376281 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Jack Absolute Flies Again

Richard Bean & Oliver Chris

July 1940. After an aerial dog fight, Pilot Officer Jack Absolute flies home to win the heart of his old flame, Lydia Languish. Sheridan's classic comedy of manners, The Rivals, is given an uproarious Battle of Britain update by Richard Bean, the award-winning writer of One Man, Two Guvnors, and Oliver Chris.

UK July 2022 • US October 2022 • 144 pages PB 9781350183896 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350183919 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350183902 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Lie Low

Ciara Elizabeth Smyth Faye’s afraid. She’s not sleeping, she doesn’t trust ducks and all she’s had to eat this week is a box of dry Rice Krispies. A darkly funny new play by Ciara Elizabeth Smyth, that is a theatrical exploration into the human brain via the genitals.

UK September 2022 • US October 2022 • 80 pages PB 9781350370272 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350370289 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350370296 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Rose

Martin Sherman Blending the personal with the political, this sharply drawn portrait of a feisty Jewish woman traces Rose’s story from the devastation of Nazi-ruled Europe to conquering the American dream. Rose reflects on what it means to be a survivor. This one woman show provides incredible monologue material, and was published to coincide with the new production starring Maureen Lipman as Rose.

UK August 2022 • US October 2022 • 64 pages PB 9781350361324 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350361348 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350361331 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Apology

Kyo Choi How should a nation apologise for the crimes of its past? Seoul, 1991. Three women’s lives intertwine as they confront one of the worst cases of human rights abuse and atrocity during wartime. Based on true accounts by survivors and historical documents, The Apology is a play about what it takes to forgive.

UK September 2022 • US September 2022 • 96 pages PB 9781350356504 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350356528 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350356511 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Boy with Two Hearts

Hamed Amiri Adapted by Phil Porter Herat, Afghanistan, 2000. A young mother makes a speech demanding freedom for Afghan women, angering local Taliban leaders who issue a warrant for her execution. With no choice but to run, the Amiri family embark on a long and terrifying journey out of Afghanistan and across Europe with the UK as their ultimate goal. Thrown into an unfamiliar world of fake passports and untrustworthy handlers, the Amiris must learn how to live with nothing and avoid capture at all costs. But with their eldest son Hussein’s life-threatening heart condition growing steadily worse, the journey soon becomes a race against time.

UK September 2022 • 88 pages PB 9781350361805 • £10.99 ePub 9781350361812 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350361829 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Cherry Orchard

Anton Chekhov & Vinay Patel An old starship, far from Earth, on a multigenerational voyage to a new world. To us, the fledgling crew appear to be of South Asian descent but they don’t know what that means. A loose adaptation of Chekhov’s final work, a playful, funny and joyful meditation on loss on a galactic scale, dealing with small lives and great ambitions adrift in the cosmos.

UK September 2022 • US October 2022 • 112 pages PB 9781350359161 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350359185 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350359178 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Prince

Abigail Thorn The Prince is a sharp new play that weaves through Henry IV Part One and other of Shakespeare's plays. With sword fighting, lesbianism, and disappointed parents, this thrilling new work was written by Abigail Thorn, celebrated creator of Philosophy Tube.

UK September 2022 • US October 2022 • 120 pages PB 9781350352377 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350352391 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350352384 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Wilf

James Ley Calvin is going to completely revolutionise his life. Escape his abusive boyfriend, detonate his inner sex bomb, see (and shag) the world. This riotous and heartfelt new play takes audiences on a hilarious and unapologetic ride through Scotland in an attempt to escape loneliness, cope with mental illness and learn to love ourselves, with the help of one another.

UK August 2022 • US August 2022 • 96 pages PB 9781350346093 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350346116 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350346109 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Narcissist

Christopher Shinn Everyone needs Jim. His mother. His best friend. His brother. His new lover. A hopeful future President. But can Jim really help anyone, when he isn’t sure who he is any more, or what he actually believes? A gripping, inventive and witty take on personal and political communication in the internet age by celebrated US playwright Christopher Shinn

UK August 2022 • US October 2022 • 96 pages PB 9781350361072 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350361096 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350361089 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel

Tim Crouch The Fool walks out of King Lear before the interval and before the killing starts. Who can blame him? He can watch it all on a screen. King Lear meets stand-up meets the metaverse, Truth’s a Dog Must to Kennel is a new solo work by the internationally renowned playwright and performer Tim Crouch.

UK August 2022 • US September 2022 • 48 pages PB 9781350360402 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350360426 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350360419 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Wreckage

Tom Ratcliffe

Sam and his fiancé Noel have been together for years. They have a house, a cat and their whole lives ahead of them. But when a sudden and permanent distance crashes into their relationship, it falls upon Sam to discover where their story goes from here. Tom Ratcliffe's Wreckage is a touching story about continuing bonds and love that only evolves, and never dies.

UK August 2022 • US September 2022 • 88 pages PB 9781350357990 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350358010 • £9.89 / $13.73 ePdf 9781350358003 • £9.89 / $13.73 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English