Drama & Performance Studies
2015-16
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Contents Letter from the Editors �������������������������������������������������� 2 Theatre Studies ������������������������������������������������������������ 3 Performance Theory ������������������������������������������������������ 6 Theatre Makers ������������������������������������������������������������ 7 Performance and Technique �������������������������������������������� 9 Design and Production ������������������������������������������������ 11 Shakespeare �������������������������������������������������������������� 12 Modern Drama ������������������������������������������������������������ 15 Anthologies ������������������������������������������������������������ 15 Student Guides �������������������������������������������������������� 16 Plays for Young People ���������������������������������������������� 18 Modern Plays ���������������������������������������������������������� 18 Bestsellers ���������������������������������������������������������������� 29 Index ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 32
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Bloomsbury Drama and Performance Studies Incorporating Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Drama & Performance Studies catalogue, including Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare.
Book Highlights Among this year’s highlights are the Contemporary Dramatist titles Mamet Plays: 6 (p. 15) and Simon Stephens Plays: 4 (p. 15); as well as over fifty play texts. In his centenary year, we have The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller (p. 7), a new collection of some of his most seminal critical work. The Arden Shakespeare’s growing focus on performance includes Performing King Lear (p. 13), in which interviews with leading actors and directors illuminate the play. Three titles publish in our new Performance and Science series (p. 6) providing insights into this dynamic area of research and practice while the paperback edition of the highly acclaimed Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (p. 7) is a treat for all theatre-lovers. Finally, highlights from among our performance books include Nancy Bishop’s Auditioning for Film and Television (p. 9), Ken Rea’s The Outstanding Actor (p. 9), an updated edition of the vital technical theatre manual Stage Lighting (p. 11), and an expert guide to stand-up comedy, Off the Mic (p. 10).
Digital Highlights EBooks are now available direct for your e-reader: purchase from www.bloomsbury.com. In addition to several thousand eBooks, we publish a range of digital subscription services, including Bloomsbury Collections, the Churchill Archive, Drama Online, and the Berg Fashion Library. Sign up on www.bloomsbury.com for news on these and the forthcoming Bloomsbury Food, Design and Architecture Libraries, Fairchild Books Library, and the Fashion Photography Archive. Drama Online, awarded The Charleston Advisor’s Reader’s Choice Awards for Best Interface in 2014, now features two new collections. Plays from Nick Hern Books include works from Howard Brenton, Jez Butterworth and Caryl Churchill. 350 audio plays from L. A. Theatre Works bring the highest quality recordings from leading actors performing iconic works from such playwrights as Arthur Miller, David Mamet and Eugene O’Neill. New content for next year includes video. See the inside front cover and www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more. www.actorsandperformers.com provides advice and contacts for actors and performers at all stages of their careers. And, in collaboration with Faber, The Sonnets by William Shakespeare app (p.12) contains all 154 poems read by an all-star cast including Patrick Stewart and Stephen Fry. Our eBooks platform Bloomsbury Collections delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build their collections across the humanities and social sciences without DRM. Over 4,000 eBook titles are now available on subscription, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, Hart Publishing and The Arden Shakespeare (excludes the plays, which are available on Drama Online). Sign up for an institutional trial or updates at www.bloomsburycollections.com.
About Bloomsbury Academic & Professional Publishing c.1,400 books a year, with a backlist of 20,000 titles, the division includes the active imprints of Bloomsbury Academic, Arden Shakespeare, Methuen Drama, T&T Clark, Hart and Fairchild Books, and the historic imprints of Berg Publishers, Bristol Classical Press, Duckworth Academic, Continuum, and AVA Books. The division won Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year in both 2013 and 2014 at The Bookseller Annual UK Industry awards, and was awarded the Independent Publishers Guild awards for Independent Publisher of the Year and Academic & Professional Publisher of the Year in 2013. Bloomsbury is committed to academic excellence, peer-review, the quality of our authors, digital publishing, speed to market and innovation. We hope you enjoy reading our latest catalogue. Jenny Ridout, Editorial Director, Drama jenny.ridout@bloomsbury.com
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Methuen Drama Engage Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK, Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume seeks to challenge mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives to the body of work under examination. Contributions to volumes will challenge existing critical paradigms and do so in an engaging and accessible manner that will open up fresh approaches and suggest avenues for further exploration.
The Contemporary American Monologue
Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe
Performance and Politics
Edited by James Reynolds & Andy W. Smith, University of South Wales, UK
Eddie Paterson, University of Melbourne, Australia This constitutes the first book-length account of US monologists that links the tradition of oratory in American history to the resurgence of the genre at the turn of the 21st century, and positions the monologue as a distinctly American brand of solo performance. Eddie Paterson traces the importance of the monologue in Shakespeare, Brecht, Beckett, Chekov, Pinter, O'Neill and Williams, before analysing some of the most influential American practitioners of the genre, including Spalding Gray, Laurie Anderson, Anna Deavere Smith and Karen Finley. UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 256 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781472585011 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472585028 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472585035 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472585042 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Theatre of Real People Diverse Encounters at Berlin’s Hebbelam-Ufer and Beyond Ulrike Garde & Meg Mumford Recent socially engaged Western theatre has shown an intense fascination with putting contemporary people on stage. Garde and Mumford’s book provides the first in-depth analysis of how innovative forms of this theatre present and invite encounters between participants from diverse backgrounds through a study of the work arising from Germany's award-winning Hebbel-am-Ufer theatre in Berlin. In so doing, it opens up the work of an important European theatre and illuminates a distinct and prevalent mode of performance. UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472580214 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472580221 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472580238 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472580245 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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This volume overturns outdated perceptions of Howard Barker’s work, presenting new, interdisciplinary and international perspectives on it. Grounded in the reading of practice, it offers readers fresh tools through which to understand, engage with and stage Barker's work. It brings together conversations with theatre makers from in and outside The Wrestling School, with first-hand accounts of the company’s practice, and a selection of critical readings. The volume covers the full range of Barker's aesthetic concerns − including text, direction, design, acting, narrative form, poetry, appropriation, painting, photography, electronic media, technology, puppetry, and theatre space − to offer a radical reevaluation. UK July 2015 • US July 2015 • 288 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781408184394 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408184318 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781408184257 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781408185995 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Rethinking the Theatre of the Absurd Ecology, the Environment and the Greening of the Modern Stage Edited by Carl Lavery, Aberystwyth University, UK & Clare Finburgh, University of Essex, UK This is an innovative collection of essays, written by leading scholars in the fields of theatre, performance and ecocriticism, which reconfigures absurdist theatre through the optics of ecology and environment. By reading absurdist drama as an emergent form of ecological theatre, it interrogates afresh the very meaning of absurdism for 21st-century audiences and offers strikingly new interpretations of the work of canonical playwrights such as Beckett, Genet, Ionesco, Adamov, Albee, Kafka, Pinter, Shephard and Churchill. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 288 pages • 9 bw illus HB 9781472506672 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472513205 • £59.99 / $92.99 • Library eBook 9781472505767 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
For more titles in the Methuen Drama Engage series, see page 29
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T heatre S tudies Critical Companions Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland and Kevin J. Wetmore, Loyola Marymount University, USA Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.
Disability Theatre and Modern Drama Recasting Modernism Kirsty Johnston, University of British Columbia, Canada Brecht’s silent Kattrin or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his legless parents − all attest to disability's critical place in modern drama. This Critical Companion explores how disability performance studies and disability theatre practice seek to provoke new debate about the place of disability in these works. The book traces the local and international processes and tensions at play in disability theatre, and offers a critical investigation of the challenges disability theatre aesthetics pose to mainstream and traditional practice and critique. UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 320 pages PB 9781408184783 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781408184493 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472510358 • £19.99 / $29.99 • Library eBook 9781472506382 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Theatre of David Henry Hwang Esther Kim Lee, University of Illinois, USA This is the first in-depth study of David Henry Hwang’s plays and other works in theatre. Beginning with his 'Trilogy of Chinese America' written in the 1980s, Esther Kim Lee traces all major phases of his playwriting career, providing detailed analysis of works in their context and considering their autobiographical elements. Utilizing historical and dramaturgical analysis, she argues that Hwang has developed a unique style of metatheatricality and irony in writing plays that are both politically charged and commercially viable. The book also features three essays by scholars of Asian American theatre, and a chronology of Hwang's life and work. UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 208 pages PB 9781408185858 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472512086 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781408185018 • £17.99 / $29.99 • Library eBook 9781408185575 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Theatre in Education in Britain Origins, Development and Influence Roger Wooster Following on from the 50th anniversary of the birth of Theatre in Education in Britain in 2015, this is an essential and timely companion to the story of TIE. It contextualizes it within the political and educational landscape of the last fifty years and examines its legacy today. Through this, Roger Wooster offers insights into future possibilities and applications in the field of Applied Theatre, drama in schools and pedagogical theory. With examples and analysis of international developments in TIE, and a foreword by Philip Taylor (NYU, USA), the volume provides a wide-ranging account of past and current practice UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 304 pages • 15 bw illus PB 9781472591470 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472591487 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472591494 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472591500 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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The Theatre of D.H. Lawrence Dramatic Modernist and Theatrical Innovator James Moran, University of Nottingham, UK This is the first book-length study for four decades to examine the plays written by D. H. Lawrence, and the first ever book to examine these works alongside the films inspired by his novels. James Moran connects and examines these performance texts in order to explain Lawrence’s key contribution to modern drama. The Companion also includes interviews with influential figures who have staged Lawrence’s work, whilst a concluding chapter situates Lawrence’s theatre alongside that of other modernist writers whose work for the stage has been neglected, including Joyce, Woolf, and Pound. UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 264 pages PB 9781472570376 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472570383 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472570390 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472570406 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Late Work of Sam Shepard Shannon Blake Skelton, Kansas State University, USA Hailed by critics during the 1980s as the decade’s 'Great American Playwright', Sam Shepard has since continued to produce work in a wide array of media including short prose, films, plays, performances and screenplays. This is the first volume to consider Shepard's later work and career in detail. It ranges across all his work produced since the late 1980s, beginning with his directorial debut Far North, taking in stage plays including States of Shock, The God of Hell and Kicking a Dead Horse, as well as analysing his work in films, including Hamlet, Black Hawk Down, and Brothers. UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781474234726 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781474234733 • £59.99 / $92.99 • Library eBook 9781474234740 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre Martin Middeke, University of Augsburg, Germany, Peter Paul Schnierer, University of Heidelberg, Germany & Greg Homann This groundbreaking volume offers a detailed survey of the variety of theatre forms, and the work of the major playwrights and theatre makers producing work in democratic South Africa. It includes chapters on theatre pioneers and theatre forms, including Barney Simon, Magnet Theatre, the Handspring Puppet Company, and physical theatre; analysis of the work of major playwrights such as Athol Fugard, Reza de Wet, Lara Foot and Mpumelelo Paul Grootboom, as well as consideration of emerging contemporary playwrights. South Africa has a uniquely rich and diverse theatre tradition; this is the perfect introduction to that work and its context. UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 480 pages PB 9781408176696 • £22.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781408176702 • £70.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781408176719 • £22.99 / $34.99 • Library eBook 9781408176726 Series: Guides to Contemporary Drama • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays
In Place of a Show
Transnationalism and Postdramatic Theatre
What Happens Inside Theatres When Nothing Is Happening
Mary Mazzilli, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
Augusto Corrieri
In this comprehensive study of his post-exile plays, Mary Mazzilli explores Gao's plays as examples of postdramatic transnationalism: a transnational artistic trend that is fluid, flexible and full of variety of styles and influences. Whereas other publications have considered Gao's work as a cultural and artistic phenomenon, this is the first study to relate his plays to postdramatic theatre and to provide close textual and dramatic analysis, while also situating it in the context of the work of contemporary playwrights such as Martin Crimp, Peter Handke, and Elfriede Jelinek.
A compellingly written and accessible account of the Western theatre building, In Place of a Show focuses on four theatre buildings from around the world: theatres stripped of their primary purpose, lying empty, preserved as museums, or demolished. Through a playful combination of first-person narratives, scholarly research and visual documents, Augusto Corrieri investigates how to approach these spaces when the human element is no longer the primary focus of attention: what happens inside disused theatres? How do these buildings endure and transform through time? In short, what do theatres do?
UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 272 pages HB 9781472591609 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472591616 • £59.99 / $92.99 • Library eBook 9781472591623 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 176 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781474256728 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781474256735 • £54.99 / $84.99 • Library eBook 9781474256742 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
A Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen
Why Stand-up Matters
You Have to be There
Sophie Quirk, University of Kent, UK
Shaun May, University of Kent, UK
Stand-up permeates British society and culture. But ubiquitous though it is, we are generally reluctant to consider stand-up’s socio-political consequences.
Drawing on the philosophy of Martin Heidegger, Shaun May presents a witty and erudite exploration of the phenomenon of comedy, suggesting that there is something distinctive about human beings which grounds our ability to make and comprehend jokes. Guiding the reader through a range of examples, including the films of Charlie Chaplin, the stand-up of Francesca Martinez, the TV show Family Guy and Samuel Beckett’s Endgame, he demonstrates that in order to get the joke you have to ‘be there’. UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 224 pages HB 9781472580436 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472580450 • £59.99 / $92.99 • Library eBook 9781472580467 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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How Comedians Manipulate and Influence
The book reinterprets the craft of stand-up comedy as a series of manipulations and is unique in detailing the scope and extent of stand-up’s social and political influence. It demonstrates how comedy audiences allow themselves to be manipulated, and the potential harm − and material benefits − that may arise from ‘just’ being funny. UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus PB 9781472578921 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472578938 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472578945 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781472578952 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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P erformance T heory Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues Series Editors: John Lutterbie, Stony Brook University, USA and Nicola Shaughnessy, University of Kent, UK Exploring the interactions between science and performance, the series provides readers with a unique guide to current practices and research in this fast-expanding field. Through shared themes and case studies, the series offers rigorous vocabularies and methods for empirical studies of performance, with each volume being a collaboration between performance scholars, practitioners and scientists. The series encompasses the multi modalities of performance to include drama, dance and music.
Theatre, Performance and Cognition Languages, Bodies and Ecologies Edited by Rhonda Blair, Southern Methodist University, USA & Amy Cook, Stony Brook University, USA Theatre, Performance and Cognition introduces readers to the key debates, areas of research, and applications of the cognitive sciences to the humanities, and to theatre and performance in particular. It features international examples of the most exciting work being done at the intersection of theatre and cognitive science, containing an overview of selected influential scientific studies, together with case studies from the field of theatre and performance that demonstrate some of the applications of the cognitive sciences to actor training, the rehearsal room and the realm of performance more generally. The book will appeal to both performance practitioners and students. UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472591784 • £24.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781472591791 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781472591807 • £24.99 / $36.99 • Library eBook 9781472591814 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience
Performance and the Medical Body
Edited by Clelia Falletti, Sapienza University of Rome, Italy, Gabriele Sofia, Paul Valéry University Montpellier 3, France. & Victor Jacono, Independent scholar and practitioner
Edited by Alex Mermikides & Gianna Bouchard
The book surveys and documents the interdisciplinary exchange between theatre and neuroscience through the contributions of scholars, scientists and artists who have been bridging the two fields in their work. Each part includes contributions from international pioneers of theatre scholarship, and from neuroscientists of world-renown. Divided into four parts, each prefaced by an expert editorial introduction, it explores: a neurocognitive approach to theatre as a space of relationships, the spectator’s performative experience, the complexity of theatre and human cognition, and interdisciplinary perspectives on applied performance. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 288 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781472584786 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472584793 • £74.99 / $115.99 • Library eBook 9781472584809 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
This edited collection focuses on performance practice and analysis that engages with medical and biomedical sciences. After locating the ‘biologization’ of theatre at the turn of the twentieth century, it examines a range of contemporary practices that respond to understandings of the human body as revealed by biomedical science: Performing the Medical, Performing Patients, and Performing Body Parts. It draws on scholars, scientists, artists and practices that are at the forefront of creative, scientific and academic research and will be useful to students and scholars exploring issues such as subjectivity, patient narratives, identity, embodiment, agency, medical ethics, health and illness. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 288 pages HB 9781472570789 • £75.00 / $128.00 Individual eBook 9781472570796 • £74.99 / $115.99 • Library eBook 9781472570802 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
reflective teaching InspIrIng EducatIon through InnovatIon
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Outstanding advice on how to teach well, within “highly complex organisations known as universities ... This collection is a real tour de force ” TIMES HIGHER EDUCATION 9781441197559 | £24.99/$39.95
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Theatre Makers The Theatre Makers series celebrates and draws together the work of many of the most seminal theatre makers. Titles within the series comprise of diaries, letters, essays, and first-hand accounts by, as well as interviews with, the most influential theatre practitioners throughout history, past and present. Together, they provide an unprecedented insight into the philosophies and methods of the practitioners that have shaped – and continue to define – what theatre is today.
Simon Stephens: A Working Diary
The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller
Simon Stephens
Arthur Miller
2014 was a year which featured an extraordinary number of world premieres from Simon Stephens, a West End and Broadway transfer of one of his plays, and his getting some of the most interesting commissions in today’s theatre. In an exceptionally honest account, Simon Stephens opens up to readers, through daily diary entries throughout the year, his working practices; inner-most thoughts; philosophy on theatre, the arts and politics; and his feelings and reactions to specific projects on which he has worked and practitioners with whom he has worked. UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 256 pages PB 9781474251419 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474251433 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781474251457 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
'Death of a Salesman' in Beijing Arthur Miller "One of the most revealing volumes ever written on the making of theatre." Time Out In 1983, Arthur Miller was invited to direct Death of a Salesman at the Beijing People's Theatre, with Chinese actors. Miller had forty-eight days of rehearsals in which to direct his play and, while there, he kept a diary. This book tells the fascinating story of Miller's time in China and the paradoxes of directing a tragedy about American capitalism in a Communist country. This new edition features an introduction by Claire Conceison, Professor of Theater Studies at Duke University. UK October 2015 • 272 pages HB 9781472592088 • £25.00 Individual eBook 9781472592064 • £24.99 • Library eBook 9781472592057 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)
Edited by Matthew Roudané, Georgia State University, USA
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"In reading this definitive collection of the playwright's pieces ... you are exhiliratingly aware of a social critic, as well as playwright, who knows what he's about." Studs Terkel, Chicago Tribune, on The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller This comprehensive volume draws together essays by one of the most influential voices of our time, taking the reader on a whirlwind tour of modern history. The Collected Essays of Arthur Miller draws together essays from three earlier publications − Echoes Down the Corridor, The Theatre Essays of Arthur Miller and The Crucible in History − to form this definitive collection. It is edited and introduced by Matthew Roudané, Regents Professor of American Drama at Georgia State University. UK October 2015 • 640 pages HB 9781472591746 • £30.00 Individual eBook 9781472591753 • £29.99 • Library eBook 9781472591760 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)
Edward Bond: The Playwright Speaks David Tuaillon, teacher and researcher In this unique collection, David Tuaillon puts pressing questions and mysteries to Edward Bond himself, provoking answers to some of his most elusive dramatic material, and covering an extraordinary range of plays and subjects with real clarity. Edward Bond: The Playwright Speaks is potentially the most comprehensive, precise and clear account of the playwright's work and time in the theatre to date, distilling years and schools of thought into one single volume. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 216 pages PB 9781472570062 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472570147 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472570109 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781472570116 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Meyerhold on Theatre Translated and edited by Edward Braun, Emeritus Professor, University of Bristol, UK "Meyerhold on Theatre is an important, manyfaceted book. Meyerhold was a great director − the greatest in my experience as a playgoer ... Braun has rendered the field of theatre knowledge an invaluable service." Harold Clurman, The Nation In Meyerhold on Theatre, Edward Braun brings together Vsevolod Meyerhold's most significant writings and utterances, covering his entire career as a director. Meyerhold emerges from this book as a forerunner of such directors as Brecht, Piscator, Planchon and Brook, a relentless enemy of naturalism and a supreme exponent of total theatre. Featuring a new introduction by Professor Jonathan Pitches, University of Leeds. UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 368 pages PB 9781474230209 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474230247 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474230223 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781474230216 Series: Theatre Makers • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life Stephen Parker, University of Manchester, UK "A magisterial biography of Brecht" Independent This is the definitive biography of the great 20th century writer and theatre artist, described by Michael Hofmann in the TLS as "that rare thing, not only the biography of a genius, but itself a biography of genius". Drawing on letters, diaries and unpublished material, Parker offers a rich and enthralling account of Brecht’s life and work, viewed through the prism of the artist. Tracing his extraordinary life, from his formative years up to the Berliner Ensemble’s dazzling productions in Paris and London, Parker shows how Brecht achieved his transformative effect upon world theatre and poetry. UK November 2015 • US November 2015 • 704 pages • 2x8-page b&w plate sections PB 9781474240000 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408155622 • £30.00 / $39.99 9781408155622 Individual eBook 9781408155646 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781408155639 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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The Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar
Ruth Maleczech at Mabou Mines
Bertolt Brecht
Jessica Silsby Brater, University of New Haven, USA
Edited by Anthony Phelan, Keble College, University of Oxford, UK Translated by Charles Osborne, Independent scholar and practitioner Bertolt Brecht's only novel, available in English for the first time, provides readers with an enthralling account of the narrator's attempt to write a biography of one of the world's great leaders. This edition is translated by Charles Osborne and features an introduction and editorial notes by Professor Anthony Phelan. UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 192 pages PB 9781472582720 • £14.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781472582737 • £45.00 / $79.00 Individual eBook 9781472582744 • £12.99 / $20.99 • Library eBook 9781472582751 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Woman's Work
Constituting the first comprehensive look at Ruth Maleczech’s work, Jessica Brater’s companion is a landmark study in innovative theatre practice, bringing together biography, critical analysis, and original interviews to establish a portrait of this Obie-award winning theatre artist. Highlights of the volume include discussion of productions such as Mabou Mines’ Lear, Dead End Kids, Hajj, Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day, Red Beads, and La Divina Caricatura, as well as a close look at Maleczech’s final work-in-progress, Imagining the Imaginary Invalid. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472578822 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472578839 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472578853 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472578846 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Actors and Performers Yearbook 2016
The Actor's Business Plan
Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Radio
Jane Drake Brody, De Paul University, USA
Edited by Lloyd Trott, RADA, UK "An essential tool for all actors" Christine Payne, Equity Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. Featuring articles and commentaries, providing valuable insight into the profession in how to manage auditions, interviews and how to secure work, alongside a casting calendar and advice on contracts and finance, it is an incredibly useful professional tool in an industry where contacts and networking are key to career survival. The listings detailed in this edition have been thoroughly updated alongside fresh advice from industry experts.
A Career Guide for the Acting Life A self-directed practical guide specifically for actors graduating from theatre programs to assist them in moving towards success using the same kind of business/career planning so frequently offered to graduates in non-arts programs. This introduction to the acting industry provides actors with essential knowledge and examples of casting breakdowns, letters, marketing tools and a five-year career plan. Includes interviews and advice on auditions, showreels, pictures, resumes and networking, as well as important issues such as typecasting and ethnicity. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 272 pages PB 9781472573698 • £10.99 / $18.95 Individual eBook 9781472573704 • £8.99 / $13.99 • Library eBook 9781472573711 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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The Acting Workbook A Practical Guide to Training, Rehearsing and Devising Alex Clifton, RADA, UK The Acting Workbook is an essential workbook for actors, actors in training and teachers of acting and drama. The workbook and video provide a clear, step-by-step guide to learning techniques in acting, and are are based on the practices of Stanislavski and his recent theatrical descendants including Hagen, Meisner, Chekhov and others. Student-centred exercises offer in-class and pre-class exercises, educational frameworks, teaching-tips, suggested texts through which to apply the work, follow-up exercises and suggestions for further reading. The Acting Workbook includes video of the author teaching the exercises, with professional actors demonstrating the techniques to be learned.
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Auditioning for Film and Television Secrets from a Casting Director Nancy Bishop, Casting Director, Prague "A terrific guide for young actors" Donald Sutherland Auditioning for Film and Television is a practical workbook that teaches actors the craft of auditioning in front of the camera. This new edition of the popular Secrets from the Casting Couch, includes online video, commentary, analysis and exercises as well as advice on career advancement and marketing in the age of social media. UK May 2015 • US July 2015 • 296 pages PB 9781472526366 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472526281 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472524171 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
UK May 2016 • US May 2016 • 224 pages PB 9781472530042 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781472531803 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472523266 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Broadway Swings
The Outstanding Actor
Covering the Ensemble in Musical Theatre
Seven Keys to Success
Lyndy Franklin Smith, University of Kentucky, USA & J. Austin Eyer, CAP21, USA
Ken Rea, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK
The position of a Swing (understudy for the ensemble) on Broadway is examined from every angle, showing just how vital Swings are to the success of any Broadway production. For anyone who is interested in becoming a Swing, or about to start their first job as a Swing, the “how-to” portions of this book and behind-thescenes-insight will prove invaluable. Includes interviews with over 100 Broadway pros and Swing veterans alongside Stage Managers, Casting Directors, Choreographers and Directors. Includes a foreword by five-time Tony-award winning director and choreographer Susan Stroman. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 224 pages PB 9781472590015 • £14.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781472590008 • £45.00 / $78.00 Individual eBook 9781472590022 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472590039 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
"This is a wonderful book with a unique take on how actors can get better and improve their chances of success." Damian Lewis, Actor The Outstanding Actor identifies seven key qualities that the most successful actors manifest, along with practical exercises that help nurture those qualities. Featuring contributions and insights from Ewan McGregor, Jude Law, Judi Dench, Al Pacino and many more, The Outstanding Actor gives you techniques that you can immediately put into practice in rehearsals, classes or private preparation. UK March 2015 • US May 2015 • 312 pages PB 9781472572981 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472572998 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472573001 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Stage Combat Arts An Integrated Approach to Acting, Voice and Text Work + Video Christopher DuVal, University of Utah, USA This book details many of the foundational techniques used by actors studying stage combat and actor-movement disciplines. A variety of specific training exercises are described that connect the actor’s imagination to a cohesive and meaningful actortraining curriculum − integrating stage combat with the actor’s process of developing a fully embodied awareness of the physical life of the character. With practical exercises and expert advice, Stage Combat Arts allows the actor to further hone all the disciplines that are at the foundation of actor-training through the art of combat movement. UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 256 pages PB 9781472526656 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781472522160 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472532558 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Right to Speak Working with the Voice Patsy Rodenburg, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, UK "Patsy Rodenburg wants to free your voice so that you can express yourself fully and honestly in public. Her revelation in The Right to Speak is that sound, like sense, can respond to the heart of the our inner selves." Sir Ian McKellen
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Off the Mic The World's Best Stand-Up Comedians Get Serious About Comedy Deborah Frances-White, Stand-up Comedian, UK & Marsha Shandur, Networking Mentor, UK "A brilliant, in-depth and timely look at the creative process of one of the fastest growing performing arts." Phill Jupitus Off the Mic unpacks the inner-workings of the minds of comics, sharing their secrets, insecurities and successes. Featuring interviews with a host of comedians including Eddie Izzard, Moshe Kasher, Sarah Millican, Stewart Lee, Jenny Eclair, Todd Barry, Richard Herring, Marc Maron, Stephen K Amos, Rich Hall, Lyons, Marcus Brigstocke, Phill Jupitus, Mark Watson, Greg Davies and more, this excellent book lets you in to the hearts and minds of celebrated comedians, away from the stage and off the mic. UK August 2015 • US October 2015 • 304 pages PB 9781472526380 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472527196 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472522122 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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How to Write About Theatre
Playing Scared
A Manual for Critics, Students and Bloggers
My Journey Through Stage Fright
Mark Fisher, arts commentator and freelance writer, UK The only book targeted specifically at the theatre critics to break down the process of reviewing theatre in a manageable, accessible and coherent way, How to Write About Theatre by Mark Fisher considers the various demands of theatre criticism with the citizen- and studentjournalist in mind and examines the way in which opinions once confined to private expression have become part of the public domain, and their effect on artistic institutions. How to Write About Theatre ensures that any student or theatregoer is able to evaluate and articulate their thoughts in a coherent, professional format. UK August 2015 • US August 2015 • 296 pages PB 9781472520548 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474246293 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472520555 • £17.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472520562 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Sara Solovitch Sara Solovitch learned to play piano as a young child and fell in love with music. As a teen, she played Bach and Mozart at her hometown’s annual music festival, but was overwhelmed by stage fright, which led her to give up aspirations of becoming a professional pianist. In her late fifties, Sara gave herself a one-year deadline to tame performance anxiety and play before an audience. She explored meditation, cognitive therapy, biofeedback, the use of beta blockers and other approaches. Her book chronicles how one woman set out to overcome performance anxiety, a problem encountered by millions of people. UK July 2015 • US June 2015 • 288 pages PB 9781408854570 • £7.99 / $16.00 • HB 9781408854556 • £16.99 / $26.00 Individual eBook 9781620400920 • £11.99 / $17.99 Bloomsbury Publishing World English
Actor-Musicianship
Musical Theatre Song
Jeremy Harrison, Programme Director, Rose Bruford, UK
A Comprehensive Course in Selection, Preparation and Presentation for the Modern Performer
Aimed at a worldwide audience of professional practitioners, students, teachers and amateurs, Actor Musicianship will explore the history of the actor-musician show, as well as investigating how this specialist form of music-theatre is performed, produced, lit, musically directed, arranged, designed and created. As well as being a practical guide, Actor Musicianship also provides a record of the development of the actor musicianship movement, examining its origins, whilst moving towards a definition of this as-yet undocumented area of practice. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 208 pages PB 9781472509635 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472514578 • £17.99 / $23.99 • Library eBook 9781472513779 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Stephen Purdy, Musical Theatre Faculty, Marymount Manhattan College, USA "Stephen Purdy’s new text contains insightful, invaluable wisdom that gives modern stage performers the tools and the wherewithal to do this in a way that nurtures their individuality and fosters their artistry." Placido Domingo In this new book, Broadway and West End vocal and audition coach Stephen Purdy maps out the requirements of today’s complex musical theatre scene, suggesting sensible strategies for success in song work for those looking to succeed in the industry. He draws from his many years of experience as a musical director and coach at the highest levels, and as an accomplished college professor in New York City and abroad. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 256 pages PB 9781472566560 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781472595119 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472595102 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Performing Opera A Practical Guide for Singers and Directors Michael Ewans, University of Newcastle, Australia This is a detailed and practical workbook to performing many of the most commonly produced operas. Aimed at singers and directors as well as opera lovers, it draws on examples from 24 operas ranging in period from Gluck and Mozart to Britten and Tippett, to illustrate exactly how opera functions as dramatic form. It features close analysis of performances of 30 scenes and five whole operas by first-rate singers and celebrated directors. Each chapter contains numerous examples of music and new translations of the texts for the scenes studied, and discussion questions will assist students, teachers and aspiring performers. UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 304 pages PB 9781474239073 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781474239080 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474239097 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781474239103 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Stage Lighting: The Technicians' Guide An On-the-job Reference Tool with Video Resources − 2nd Edition Skip Mort, Freelance Lighting Designer, UK "Impressive, on-the-job reference tool ... Its user friendly, well-illustrated and tabulated formats gives it the potential to be a strong source of practical information for arts students of all levels. 5*" Teaching Drama on the first edition This practical guide covers all aspects of stage lighting equipment, special effects, lighting performance spaces and lighting design. Including online video, this revised second edition brings the guide up to date, and includes all new material on the development of LED lighting in recent years, as well as online video resources. UK September 2015 • US November 2015 • 408 pages • 240 colour images Flexiback 9781474212700 • £24.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781474212717 • £24.99 / $36.99 • Library eBook 9781474212724 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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The Shakespeare Workbook and Video
Cracking Shakespeare A Hands-on Guide for Actors and Directors + Video
A Practical Course for Actors David Carey, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA & Rebecca Clark Carey, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA "An intensely practical and inspiring manual about the skills needed to perform Shakespeare." Greg Doran, Artistic Director, Royal Shakespeare Company The Shakespeare Workbook and Video provides a unifying approach to acting Shakespeare that is immediately applicable in the rehearsal room or classroom. It is an easy-to-use text providing practical exercises in specific aspects of Shakespeare’s language such as meter, imagery, rhetoric and sound play. Online video material provides an insight into the acting process and shows the authors teaching a workshop in their method for acting Shakespeare to a group of young actors. UK July 2015 • US July 2015 • 288 pages PB 9781472523235 • £19.99 / $34.95 Individual eBook 9781472525093 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472530653 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Kelly Hunter, Actor/Director Cracking Shakespeare serves to demystify the process of speaking Shakespeare’s language, offering hands-on techniques for those intimidated by rehearsing, performing and directing Shakespeare’s plays. Including supporting online video, it demonstrates how to embody Shakespeare’s characters in rehearsal and performance − offering a toolkit that will free actors and directors from their fear of Shakespeare. The result of thirty years of acting, teaching and directing Shakespeare, Kelly Hunter’s Cracking Shakespeare is the ideal textbook for actors and directors looking for new ways to approach Shakespeare’s plays in a hands-on, down-to-earth style. UK December 2015 • US December 2015 • 192 pages PB 9781472532831 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472522481 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472533784 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781472523853 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Shakespeare’s Sonnets for iPad Enjoy, explore and understand these immortal works of literature as never before • All 154 poems performed to camera by an all-star cast including Sir Patrick Stewart, Kim Cattrall, Stephen Fry and David Tennant • Full text and complete scholarly notes from the Arden Shakespeare • Share the performance of your favourite sonnet via Facebook, Twitter or email • Includes complete facsimile of the 1609 Quarto edition
“Clean and intuitive” – New York Times “This is Shakespeare reinvented for the modern age and the sign of literature apps to come.” – Telegraph, 100 Essential Apps “A dazzling app… this isn’t like buying a book, it’s like buying a whole university department.” – Sunday Times “An ambitiously conceived, superbly executed app.” – The Literary Platform
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Performing King Lear Gielgud to Russell Beale
Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama
Jonathan Croall, Theatre Historian
Text and Performance
Performing King Lear offers a very different and practical perspective from most studies of the play.It is centred on the reality of creation and performance, as seen through the eyes of today’s leading actors and directors, including Nicholas Hytner, Adrian Noble, David Hare, Kenneth Brannagh, Deborah Warner, Derek Jacobi, Jonathan Miller, Dominic Dromgoole and Simon Russell Beale. Based on over forty unique interviews with those who have staged the play in London, Stratford and elsewhere, the book explores how they have dealt with the formidable challenges involved in interpreting and staging Shakespeare’s great tragedy. UK October 2015 • US December 2015 • 304 pages PB 9781474223850 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474223867 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781474223874 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781474223881 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Pamela Bickley, The English Association & Jenny Stevens, Open University, UK
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Tailored to the needs of undergraduate students and their teachers, his book fosters confident and independent thinking, making it an ideal introduction for students of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Each chapter includes: ·a detailed analysis of a play by Shakespeare considered alongside a key work by one other significant playwright of the day) · close reading of the text · discussion of early modern theatrical practices · a ground-breaking example of early modern drama on screen · s uggestions for links with other early modern texts and further reading
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre
UK February 2016 • US February 2016 • 352 pages PB 9781472577139 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472577146 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472577153 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781472577160 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Thinking with the Body Evelyn Tribble, University of Otago, New Zealand What skills did Shakespeare’s actors bring to their craft? How do these skills differ from those of contemporary actors? This book examines the ‘toolkit’ of the early modern player and suggests new readings of the plays of Shakespeare and his contemporaries through the lens of their expertise. Evelyn Tribble argues that recapturing a positive account of the abilities of the early modern players will result in a more capacious understanding of the nature of theatricality in the period. UK July 2016 • US July 2016 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472576026 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576033 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472576040 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472576057 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose A Student-Centred Approach Ayanna Thompson, The George Washington University, Washington DC & Laura Turchi What does it mean to teach Shakespeare with purpose? It means freeing teachers from the notion that teaching Shakespeare means teaching everything, or teaching “Western Civilisation” and universal themes. Instead, this invigorating new book equips teachers to enable student-centred discovery of these complex texts, approaching them as vehicles for collaborative exploration in the classroom and releasing them from over-determined interpretations. Written by a renowned Shakespeare scholar and an expert in teacher education, the book blends the most effective approaches from the humanities and the methodologies from the social sciences, and in so doing, liberates and empowers teachers of Shakespeare. UK January 2016 • US January 2016 • 224 pages PB 9781472599612 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472599629 • £60.00 / $104.00 Individual eBook 9781472599636 • £18.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472599643 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Directing Shakespeare in America Current Practices Charles Ney, Texas State University, USA In this first substantive study of directing Shakespeare in the USA, Charles Ney compares and contrasts directors working at major companies across the country. The volume examines contemporary directors’ values and beliefs, the methods they use and the various tasks they execute when preparing for, rehearsing and finishing a Shakespeare production. It will be useful to practitioners who want to learn from other directors, and scholars and students studying production practice and performance. UK April 2016 • US April 2016 • 320 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781474239837 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781474239844 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781474239851 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781474239868 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
Anecdotal Shakespeare A New Performance History Paul Menzer, Mary Baldwin College, USA Shakespeare’s performance history is full of anecdotes − ribald, frequently funny, sometimes disturbing, and always but loosely allegiant to fact. Such anecdotes are a vital index to the ways that Shakespeare’s plays have generated meaning across varied times and in varied places. Particular plays have produced particular anecdotes − stories of a real skull in Hamlet, superstitions about the name Macbeth, toga troubles in Julius Caesar − and express something embedded in those plays. Anecdotes constitute a vital component of a play’s performance history and a form of vernacular criticism by the people most involved in their production: actors. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 280 pages • 10 bw illus PB 9781472576156 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576163 • £65.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472576170 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781472576187 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare
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Noël Coward Screenplays
Mamet Plays: 5
In Which We Serve, Brief Encounter, The Astonished Heart
Boston Marriage; Dr Faustus; Romance
Noël Coward
"Mamet is a connoisseur of fiasco, knows all about legal punctilio, and he has great fun bringing mayhem to the ritual." New Yorker
Edited by Barry Day Including an eight-page plate section featuring black and white production stills, this collection features three of Coward's most important works for the screen. This collection is a must-have for fans of Coward's work as well as those studying 20th-century British film and/or Queer Studies. UK November 2015 • US December 2015 • 432 pages PB 9781472568090 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472568243 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472568298 • £19.99 / $27.99 • Library eBook 9781472568304 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
David Mamet
A collection of outstanding plays from one of America's greatest playwrights, Mamet Plays: 5 features three plays: Romance, Boston Marriage and Faustus. UK February 2015 • 232 pages PB 9781472533722 • £17.99 Individual eBook 9781472533388 • £17.99 • Library eBook 9781472534101 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)
Mamet Plays: 6
Tim Price Plays: 1
November; Race; The Anarchist
For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I'm With the Band; Protest Song; Under the Sofa
David Mamet The latest collection from one of America's most revered and provocative dramatists, Mamet Plays: 6 brings together three of his most recent plays: Race, November and The Anarchist. UK September 2015 • 240 pages PB 9781472530080 • £17.99 Individual eBook 9781472534088 • £17.99 • Library eBook 9781472526762 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English (excluding USA/Canada)
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Tim Price Introduced by the author, this is the first collection of Tim Price’s plays. Tim Price won the 2013 James Tait Black Prize for Drama and his work includes For Once; Salt, Root and Roe; The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning; I’m With the Band; Protest Song and Under the Sofa (published here for the first time). UK September 2014 • US October 2014 • 392 pages PB 9781474221962 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781474221986 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781474221979 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Stephens Plays: 4 Three Kingdoms; The Trial of Ubu; Morning; Carmen Disruption Simon Stephens "Mr. Stephens, one of the most quietly original British playwrights working today, has the gift (or curse) of perceiving human unhappiness with an almost clinical verisimilitude, unclouded by sentimentality or sensationalism." New York Times A collection of plays inspired by the author's work in German theatre, Stephens Plays: 4 brings together some of the most theatrically daring work by one of Britain’s most prolific playwrights. It will be of particular interest to students of contemporary British theatre, contemporary European theatre students, and fans of Simon Stephens's work. Introduced by the author and featuring a foreword by Sebastian Nübling. UK April 2015 • US May 2015 • 336 pages PB 9781474260121 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474260138 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781474260145 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Edition
My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Guide
Charlotte Keatley
Sophie Bush, Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK
Edited by Sophie Bush, Lecturer, Sheffield Hallam University, UK Charlotte Keatley's seminal play My Mother Said I Never Should is published here as a GCSE Student Edition, which features the play text alongside accompanying commentary and notes by Sophie Bush, which consider the play's themes, context, characters, dramatic style and critical reception.
Designed to be both accessible and comprehensive, this GCSE Student Guide to the play provides an extended narrative on the content, structure, context, tone and themes of Charlotte Keatley's 1987 play My Mother Said I Never Should. Considering the play's dual capacity as literary work, written out of a particular socio-cultural context, and text for historical and contemporary performance, this edition will be the essential resource for any student working on the play.
UK December 2015 • US January 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474251822 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251846 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251839 Series: GCSE Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK December 2015 • US January 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781474251655 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251679 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251662 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Jacqueline Bolton, University of Lincoln, UK
Edited by Jacqueline Bolton, University of Lincoln, UK
Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, awardwinning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale. This GCSE Student Guide sets out to explore the most significant and relevant aspects of the adaptation, the dramatic techniques behind the play, the major themes, characterisation and context, all the while drawing on the views and experiences of critics, actors and directors who have worked on and studied the play.
Simon Stephens's adaptation of Mark Haddon's bestselling, awardwinning novel, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time offers a richly theatrical exploration of this touching and bleakly humorous tale. It is published here as a GCSE Student Edition featuring commentary and notes by Jacqueline Bolton, which consider the play's themes, context, characters, dramatic style and critical reception. UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 128 pages PB 9781474240314 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474240338 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474240321 Series: GCSE Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781474240598 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474240611 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474240604 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide
Willy Russell
Ros Merkin, Senior Lecturer, Department of Drama, Liverpool John Moore's University
Edited by Ros Merkin, Senior Lecturer, Liverpool John Moores University, UK Blood Brothers was first performed at the Liverpool Playhouse in 1983 and subsequently transferred to the Lyric Theatre, London. It was revived in London's West End in 1988 for a long-running production and opened on Broadway in 1993. The commentary and notes by Ros Merkin in this GCSE Student Edition look at the play through the lens of twenty-first century theatre, examining its context, themes, characters and language. UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 144 pages PB 9781474229920 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474229944 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474229937 Series: GCSE Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Two new series from Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, specifically geared to the needs of GCSE students. Our GCSE Student Editions include the full text of each play with on-page annotations, plus an introduction and accompanying material that aims to help the GCSE student in their understanding of the play. GCSE Student Guides are an invaluable accompaniment to the study of any contemporary play at GCSE level, featuring helpful overviews of each play, as well as a discussion of context, themes, characters, dramatic techniques, critical reception, related work and a glossary of dramatic terms.
Designed to be both accessible and comprehensive, this GCSE Student Guide provides an extended narrative on the content, structure, context, tone and themes of Willy Russell's 1983 play-with-music, Blood Brothers. The play was premiered at Liverpool Playhouse before transferring to London, where it enjoyed a long-running production in the West End. UK April 2016 • US May 2016 • 112 pages PB 9781474229982 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474230025 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474230018 Series: GCSE Student Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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P lays for Y oung P eople / M odern P lays Plays for Young People Methuen Drama’s Plays for Young People series offers an excellent selection of single plays and anthologies aimed at young people to perform. The series features the highest-quality work by established playwrights, which is age-appropriate and organised into age bands (7-10, 11-15 and 16-18) to help teachers and youth theatre leaders select the most suitable work for their group. Key Features: • Authored by esteemed playwrights • Accessible to the reading levels of the students they are reaching • On-page annotations for references/language that may be potentially confusing to a young audience • Characters of interest to young people • Strong social messages, such as dealing with bullies; peer pressure, gender roles • Engaging introductions that put the plays in historical and cultural context
The Storyteller Sequence Karamazoo; Fairytaleheart; Sparkleshark; Moonfleece; Brokenville Philip Ridley Described as the ‘best British playwright of the past twenty years’, Philip Ridley has written many great plays, including excellent pieces for young people. This collection of one-act plays for young people is ideal for teenagers to either read or perform. With a range of plays for various numbers of performers, it is guaranteed to provide material for individuals or groups. Plays include Karamazoo (a monologue for one performer, male/female); Fairytaleheart (for one female and one male performer); Sparkleshark (for six males and three females); Moonfleece (for seven males and four females) and Brokenville (for three males and three females). UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 312 pages PB 9781474216999 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474217019 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781474217002 Series: Plays for Young People • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Pigeon English Stephen Kelman, Novelist, UK Adapted by Gbolahan Obisesan Newly arrived from Ghana with his mother and older sister, Harrison Opoku lives on a London housing estate. When a boy is knifed to death on the high street and the police appeal for witnesses draws only silence, Harri decides to start a murder investigation of his own. In doing so, he unwittingly breaks the fragile web his mother has spun around her family to keep them safe. A powerful, unforgettable tale of identity, growing up, innocence and experience, idealism and reality, Stephen Kelman’s Man Booker prize-shortlisted novel has been expertly adapted for the stage by playwright Gbolahan Obisesan. UK October 2015 • US October 2015 • 112 pages PB 9781474251037 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251020 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251013 Series: Plays for Young People • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
National Theatre Connections 2015 Plays for Young People: Drama, Baby; Hood; The Boy Preference; The Edelweiss Pirates; Follow, Follow; The Accordion Shop; Hacktivists; Hospital Food; Remote; The Crazy Sexy Cool Girls' Fan Club Edited by Anthony Banks, Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, UK Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights − a mixture of established and emerging writers − this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2015 festival, which takes place across the UK and Ireland, finishing up at the National Theatre in London. The programme offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study. UK February 2015 • US April 2015 • 632 pages PB 9781474237680 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781474237703 • £16.99 / $26.99 • Library eBook 9781474237697 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Modern Plays The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney's A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage.
Antigone
Before Monsters Were Made
Sophocles
Ross Dungan
Adapted by Roy Williams
Ross Dungan is a prolific young playwright who consistently brings a unique and moving tone to his plays. His newest play, Before Monsters Were Made, is set in 1960s Ireland. It tells the story of how a few small words can have a very big impact.
Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this classic tale vividly to life. A timeless story about loyalty and truth, about how we make meaning out of life and death, and what in the end really does matter. UK September 2014 • US October 2014 • 104 pages PB 9781474228763 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474228787 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474228770 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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When suspicion and old stories start to spread like a virus, how well do we know the people we trust the most? Can we ever know what goes on inside other people’s lives? And do we really want to? Before Monsters Were Made is an unnerving and moving thriller about loyalty, lies and love. UK May 2015 • US May 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474264501 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474264518 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474264525 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Beyond Caring
Blood
Alexander Zeldin
Emteaz Hussain
"It’s an elegy to an invisible class ... This is character-driven theatre at its purest . . . It’s a play about what unremitting poverty does to the soul, where poverty is not starvation, but life without dignity." Spectator
"There's a lively touch of comedy to Emteaz Hussain's play . . . yet the sense of danger is palpable and oppressive." Guardian
Alexander Zeldin’s brutally honest and darkly humorous play, written through devising with the ensemble of the premiere production, exposes stories of an invisible class. UK April 2015 • US May 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474255479 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474255493 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474255486 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
A 21st-century love story. Caneze meets Sully in the college canteen. The heat rises over triple chilli sauce in Nando’s. She makes her move in the sweet smoke of a shisha bar. A touchpaper is lit . . . but neither of them bargained on the lengths to which her brother would go to keep them apart. Blood is a heartfelt play by Emteaz Hussain, the writer of Tamasha’s Sweet Cider. UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 88 pages PB 9781474250795 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474250801 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474250818 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Carmen Disruption
Chef
Simon Stephens
Sabrina Mahfouz
"Simon Stephens' radical, fractured response to Bizet's famous opera ... These are lonely souls, yearning for love, home, a sense of self and real connection in an age of superficial digital communication and narcissistic, illusory identities. How did we get from the passion and beauty of "L'amour est un ouiseau rebelle" to the arid twitterings of social media? Stephen evinces a timely sense of a modern malaise." Daily Telegraph
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"A nuanced, deeply moving story … vigorous, subtly political work." The Times
Simon Stephens’s strange and beautiful play re-imagines Bizet’s opera Carmen and the possibility of love in a fractured urban world.
Chef tells the gripping story of how one woman went from being a haute-cuisine head chef to a convicted inmate running a prison kitchen. Leading us through her world of mouth-watering dishes and heart-breaking memories, Chef questions our attitudes to food, prisoners, violence, love and hope. Inspired by an interview Mahfouz conducted with celebrity chef Ollie Dabbous, Chef studies food as the ultimate art form taking stimulus from Dabbous’s obsession with simplicity and making something the best it can be.
UK April 2015 • US May 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474251600 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251624 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251617 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK June 2015 • US July 2015 • 48 pages PB 9781474265393 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781474265416 • £8.99 / $13.99 • Library eBook 9781474265409 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Chicken Dust Ben Weatherill A chicken farm in rural England. New boy Tim has just arrived for his first shift. The job is pretty simple: grab chickens seven at a time by their legs and ram them into cages for shipping. All of this in the dark, stomping around in ankle-deep muck and mud. Chicken Dust is a hard-hitting exploration of the human cost of our enormous appetite for cheap meat.
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Closer
James Phillips
Patrick Marber
City Stories is a new type of cabaret drama, a sequence of interwoven love stories, and a loveletter to London. Composed up of five discrete yet interwoven stories, each taking the form of a monologue or duologue, and performed with specifically composed songs, the piece looks at a variety of experiences of love and loss via a range of people living in the UK’s capital. UK February 2015 • US February 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474245562 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474245586 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474245579 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
"Patrick Marber's searing follow-up to Dealer's Choice establishes him as the leading playwright of his generation." Independent on Sunday Dan rescues Alice. Anna photographs Dan. Larry meets Anna online. Alice rescues Larry. This is London at the end of the twentieth century where lives collide and fates change in an instant. Strangers become lovers and lovers become strangers . . . On its premiere in 1997, Closer won Olivier, Evening Standard and New York Drama Critics' Circle Awards. UK February 2015 • US April 2015 • 128 pages PB 9781474252393 • £9.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Contact.com
Each Slow Dusk
Michael Kingsbury
Rory Mullarkey
"We've had songs for swinging lovers but surprisingly few plays about urban swingers. Now Michael Kingsbury, who directed Round the Horne Revisited, fills the gap with a deft social comedy." Guardian (on the 2006 production at the Finborough)
Set in the heart of battle in 1916, and on the tourist trail in 2014, Each Slow Dusk is a startling play about action, humanity, and the legacy of war. Immersing the reader in the reality of conflict through vivid, thrilling detail, it provides a fresh way of thinking about war − from the past soldiers’ perspective to the woman’s present-day experience.
Matthew and Naomi await the arrival of Ryan and Kelly. They’ll meet for one night of unlimited pleasure, then part, that’s the agreement, that’s the plan . . . but can they stick to it? Contact.com is a taut drama of sexual and class politics, first performed at the Park Theatre, London, in January 2015. UK January 2015 • US February 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474237895 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474237901 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474237918 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Written by the award-winning writer Rory Mullarkey, Each Slow Dusk was first produced by Pentabus Rural Theatre Company, in autumn, 2014. UK October 2014 • US November 2014 • 48 pages PB 9781474228626 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474228633 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474228619 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Fireworks
Four minutes twelve seconds
Al' ab Nariya
James Fritz
Dalia Taha Translated by Clem Naylor "By concentrating on their experience, Dalia Taha's play offers a refreshingly oblique perspective on the conflict in Gaza." Evening Standard In a Palestinian town eleven-year-old Lubna and twelve-year-old Khalil are playing on the empty stairwell in their apartment block. As the siege intensifies outside, fear for their safety becomes as crippling as the conflict itself. Dalia Taha’s play offers a new way of seeing how war fractures childhood.
In a world where smartphones are ubiquitous, James Fritz’s deeply provocative and topical drama throws a light on the sorts of insidious opportunities new technology offers − where nothing dies online, except reputation.
UK October 2014 • US October 2014 • 80 pages PB 9781474231817 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474231848 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474231824 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK February 2015 • US April 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474244503 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474244527 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474244510 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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God Bless the Child
Harajuku Girls
Molly Davies
Francis Turnly
"A very funny, lively satire on imposed educational formulae" Guardian
"There's a lot of culturally interesting − and unsettling − stuff here. . . . The subject matter exerts its own pull." Time Out London
‘Badger Do Best’ has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them? After years working in the classroom, Molly Davies imagines a mutiny of eight-year-olds in God Bless The Child, which won her the Harold Pinter Playwrighting Commission. UK November 2014 • US December 2014 • 104 pages PB 9781474221887 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474221900 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474221894 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
A fascinating and ambitious play about adolescence, independence and sexuality set in the colourful, fascinating world of Japanese cosplay and style, Harajuku Girls premiered at the Finborough Theatre, London, in February 2015.
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It tells the story of a group of teenage girls in Japan, who, in a race to escape from overbearing parents, stifling dead-end jobs and economic deprivation, find their way to Kabukicho, a district of panty shops, love hotels and image clubs, where every aspect of the body and soul can be bought and sold. Only they can decide how far they're willing to go. UK February 2015 • US March 2015 • 120 pages PB 9781474250757 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474250764 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474250771 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Heisenberg
Holy Warriors
Simon Stephens
A Fantasia on the Third Crusade and the History of Violent Struggle in the Holy Lands
Amidst the bustle of a crowded London train station, Clare spots Alex, a much older man, and plants a kiss on his neck. This electric encounter thrusts these two strangers into a fascinating and life-changing game. Simon Stephens's play, Heisenberg, brings to blazing, theatrical life the uncertain and often comical sparring match that is human connection. UK July 2015 • US May 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474261739 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474261753 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474261746 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
David Eldridge "Eldridge has always been the most muscular of writers and in this bold and ambitious play he swaps Basildon for the Holy Land in a piece whose epic swagger and salty humour are ideally suited to the Globe." Guardian Holy Warriors is a tale of holy war, fraught diplomacy and revenge in the struggle for Jerusalem, taking in over a millennium of bloody conflict, as Richard the Lionheart marches east to face Saladin, and takes Jerusalem. This edition published to coincide with the play's premiere at Shakespeare's Globe, London, on 19 July 2014. UK July 2014 • US August 2014 • 104 pages PB 9781474216395 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474216401 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474216418 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Hopelessly Devoted
I and The Village
Kate Tempest
Silva Semerciyan
"A raw dissection of the experience of young women in prison ... a passionate argument for the humanising and redemptive power of art." Daily Telegraph Acclaimed writer and spoken-word artist Kate Tempest's latest play, set in a women's prison, which looks at the possibility of redemption through music, love and human connection. UK November 2014 • US December 2014 • 104 pages PB 9781472590961 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472590992 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781472590978 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
Summer in small-town America. Aimee Stright wants to be Banksy in a town that hates vandals. As outsiders investigate what happened on the day she walked into a church with a gun, it seems Aimee is one against the world and the world wants to know why. Shortlisted for the Bruntwood Playwriting Prize, I And The Village is a coming-of-age story that asks pointed questions about conformity, dissent and America's devotion to guns. UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474248419 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474248433 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474248426 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Islands
Klippies
Caroline Horton
Jessica Siân
"It’s not the subtlest allegory for how the superrich have bounced back while our wages have stagnated. But it is a tremendously powerful one ... Horton is a mercurial and talented theatre maker." Time Out
Johannesburg. 2014. Summer. Yolandi is listening to rap-rave music and helping her brother bust parts from her teacher’s car. Thandi is swotting for her exams and keeping well away from any distractions. Set in the eighteenth year of South Africa's democracy a tender coming-of-age story for a nation and its youth.
Islands is an illuminating, absurd and powerful play about tax havens, little empires, enormous greed, and the few who have it all. Hilarious and unnerving, this ink-black comedy with music plunges you into a monstrous, secretive world where it really seems that no-one has to pay . . . for anything. UK January 2015 • US February 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474245500 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474245524 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474245517 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK May 2015 • US June 2015 • 72 pages PB 9781474265737 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474265768 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474265744 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Lampedusa
Liberian Girl
Anders Lustgarten
Diana Nneka Atuona
"It is heartening that theatre has found such an articulate voice to ask these inevitable and necessary questions." Financial Times
"[Atuona] pictures brutality in all its naked mindlessness. With verve ... she shows how war can erode familiar notions of childhood and humanity." Evening Standard
Step into the shoes of those whose job it is to enforce our harsh new rules: an Italian coastguard and a payday lender from Leeds. How do they do it? And what happens to them? Lampedusa is a powerful play about immigration and welfare. UK April 2015 • US April 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474253550 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781474253567 • £8.99 / $13.99 • Library eBook 9781474253574 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Set during the early years of the First Liberian Civil War (1989 − 1996), this startling debut play by Diana Nneka Atuona tells the story of fourteen-year-old Martha who flees her country, disguised as a boy, when it’s invaded by rebels. Exposed to the violence of this brutal and seemingly misguided conflict, both as victim and perpetrator, Martha’s experience of the First Liberian Civil War is one of excessive cruelty and, in particular, abuse against female prisoners of war. UK January 2015 • US January 2015 • 104 pages PB 9781474218245 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474218269 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474218252 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Lovesong of the Electric Bear
McQueen: or Lee and Beauty
Snoo Wilson
James Phillips
"Snoo Wilson's winding surreal play about the life of oddball genius mathematician Turing ... Wilson's play treats the story with much offthe-wall humour. Mostly it aims to give us an insight into what may have been going on in this remarkable man's head." Time Out London
"James Phillips's script ... is knotty and thoughtful, as it explores the responsibilities we have to the planet and to each other, the dangers of fundamentalism in many forms, and what we mean by society and justice." Guardian
Snoo Wilson’s Lovesong of the Electric Bear is an epic, psychedelic and electrifying trip through the life of Alan Turing, the computer visionary and maths genius whose gifts made him the code-breaking hero of World War II, but whose homosexuality led him to betrayal and vilification by the very establishment who had depended on him for victory.
McQueen is a journey into the visionary imagination and dark dream world of Alexander McQueen, fashion’s greatest contemporary artist. A girl has watched McQueen’s Mayfair house for eleven consecutive days. Tonight, she climbs down from her watching tree and breaks into his house, to steal a dress, to become someone special. He catches her, but, instead of calling the police, they embark together on a journey through London and into his heart.
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UK May 2015 • US June 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474264464 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474264488 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474264471 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Milked
Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts
Simon Longman
Jimmy McAleavey
"Capturing the restless uncertainty of youth with realistic undertones and yet presented with a gentle sense of surrealism, Milked is a play that delivers on several levels." British Theatre Guide Paul is trying to find a job. Snowy is trying to find himself. But when Snowy stumbles across an ailing cow, stuck in a local field, he ropes in Paul into trying to help the cow, either to improve its lot or put it out of its misery. What follows is a hilarious procession of failed suffocations, experiments with a saw, and trip to the train tracks in this funny and moving black comedy about friendship, unemployment and a cow called Sandy. UK February 2015 • US March 2015 • 88 pages PB 9781474243513 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474243520 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474243506 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
What's On Stage
Nig and Wee Joe used to be soldiers. They have done monstrous things. Now nobody is listening and nobody cares. Their lives are full of cognitive behavioural therapy, valium and guilt. One last operation offers the chance to bring meaning to their actions. It also brings them face to face with ‘L’, who represents the new and unpredictable reality of war in Northern Ireland. This tense and darkly funny play looks at why men go to war. This edition was published to coincide with the world premiere at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin. UK June 2015 • US June 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474266802 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474266819 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474266826 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
One Hand Clapping
Parallel Lines
Anthony Burgess
Katherine Chandler
Adapted by Lucia Cox
"Angry, funny and moving." British Theatre Guide
"Wearing its influences on its sleeve, One Hand Clapping is an enjoyable if bittersweet portrait of the struggling sanctity of lifetime togetherness amidst the darker side of convenience culture. Daringly surreal and innovatively executed."
Steph is fifteen years old. Simon is her teacher. Both live in Cardiff but their parallel lives couldn’t be more different. When an accusation is made and their worlds collide, things aren’t as simple as they might seem. Award-winning playwright Katherine Chandler explores truth, class and power in contemporary Wales in this gripping, uncompromising play, which was shortlisted for the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize 2015.
Anthony Burgess's 1961 darkly comic satire of drab English consumerism is adapted for the stage by Lucia Cox. It tells the story of Howard, an ordinary man with an extraordinary memory, who harnesses his skills the win a fortune in gameshow prizes, and his wife Janet, who sees herself move from the fringes of domestic life to the dead-centre stage.
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UK March 2015 • US May 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474253802 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474253819 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474253826 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Peter Pan Goes Wrong
Pioneer
2nd Edition
Curious Directive
Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields
"A thoughtful show that moves confidently between the wastelands of Siberia, deep-water research at the bottom of the ocean and into space itself as it celebrates the human hunger for discovery." Guardian
The inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society set out to present J. M. Barrie's classic tale of Peter Pan, their most audacious production to date. Flying? Pyrotechnics? Sharp hooks? What ensues is two acts of hysterical disaster. You'll laugh, they'll cry. Something so wrong has never been so right. From the mischievous minds of the West End and Edinburgh hit The Play That Goes Wrong comes this highly original, chaos-filled re-telling of J.M. Barrie's much-loved classic. UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474244886 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474244893 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474244909 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
It's 2029: the first human mission to Mars has disappeared; a reclusive Indian billionaire has funded a new attempt to achieve this dream; in Siberia, two brothers reconnect by driving a Lada Sputnik in search of the birth of space travel; at the bottom of the Pacific Ocean, Maartje holds on to a secret about her sister; and on Mars, Imke and Oskar are mysteriously separated. Pioneer shuttles you from the Garden of Eden to mission control, and on to the surface of Mars. UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 112 pages PB 9781474255929 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474255936 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474255943 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Play Mas
Plastic Figurines
Mustapha Matura
Ella Carmen Greenhill
"Matura's play not only offers a potted guide to Trinidadian ethnicity, economics and politics, but also a potent metaphor for the post-colonial process. It is also very funny ... the real power of Matura's play lies in its reminder, under all that surface exuberance, that the movement towards independence carried its own element of fancydress masquerade." Guardian 1950s Port of Spain. Samuel, a young tailor’s assistant, dreams of Trinidad’s independence. On the eve of carnival everyone fills the streets, dressed up to play mas. But the celebration turns to tragedy and spurs Samuel on to make a decision that will change the political landscape of this vibrant, volatile island. A wickedly funny and poignant play from critically acclaimed playwright Mustapha Matura.
"Quietly courageous and personal." Guardian Rose loves her brother Mikey. Mikey loves Rose, Bruce Willis films and the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, but he hates change. When their mum is diagnosed with leukaemia, their world is plunged into chaos. Inspired by events in the playwright's own life, Plastic Figurines is a funny and moving play that explores the relationship between siblings with very different views of the world. UK April 2015 • US April 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474258401 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474258425 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474258418 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474251471 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251488 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251495 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Pomona
Radiant Vermin
Alistair McDowall
Philip Ridley
"[A] bruising, brilliant play" Evening Standard
"A gift for savage prophecy is often unwelcome in society, and Ridley has it in abundance." Independent
Ollie’s sister is missing. Searching Manchester in desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona − an abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city. Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and nightmares are born. A sinister and surreal thriller from Alistair McDowall, Pomona received rave reviews and multiple awards upon its professional premiere. UK November 2014 • US December 2014 • 136 pages PB 9781474236010 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474236034 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474236027 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Sense Of An Ending Ken Urban "Ken Urban’s words are poetry. Voices and story lines converge and diverge like an elaborately mixed recording. The dialogue is full of stylized harmonies and dissonances; plots and characters operate in counterpoint." Catherine Rampell, New York Times − Critics' Pick Charles, a disgraced New York Times journalist, arrives in Rwanda for an exclusive interview with two Hutu nuns. Charged with war crimes, the nuns must convince the world of their innocence during the 1994 genocide. When an unknown survivor contradicts the nuns’ story, Charles must decide between saving his career or telling a murkier truth that might condemn the nuns to a life in prison. Ken Urban's award-winning Sense Of An Ending shines a light on journalistic truth and morality amid the atrocity of the Rwandan genocide. UK May 2015 • US June 2015 • 96 pages PB 9781474248495 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474248518 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474248501 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Ollie and Jill want to tell you about their dream home. Some of the things they did to get it, you might find shocking. But they want you to know they did it all for their baby . . . A wickedly comic satire from internationally acclaimed ‘master of modern myth’ (Guardian) Philip Ridley about a young couple offered a way out of the housing crisis, and just how far they’re prepared to go for it. UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 128 pages PB 9781474251501 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474251532 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474251525 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Shrapnel: 34 Fragments of a Massacre Anders Lustgarten "Anders Lustgarten is the most internationally minded dramatist working in Britain today ... short, sharp play ... the play makes its point with a controlled ferocity. Lustgarten works like a movie-maker." Guardian The Roboski massacre is one of the most controversial episodes in the ‘war on terror’. Piecing together the fragments of the tragedy, Anders Lustgarten’s startling play dares to ask what a massacre is made of. Shrapnel is a story of malicious commands and mournful commemorations; an urgent, powerful insight into the state of modern warfare. UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 72 pages PB 9781474253673 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474253680 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474253697 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Taken At Midnight
The Angry Brigade
Mark Hayhurst
James Graham
"Taken at Midnight could easily become a simple story of a heroic mother battling to save her incarcerated son, but Hayhurst has the intelligence to highlight the complexity of the characters, without diminishing the brutality of the Nazi regime from its beginnings." Guardian
"James Graham has a gimlet eye for newsworthy subjects ... James Graham’s gimlet-eyed play gives both sides of 70s anarchism and shows there’s still plenty to get angry about." Guardian
This play by the writer of The Man Who Crossed Hitler explores a mother's struggle, her son’s resistance, and the heroic battle of the weak against the powerful, truth against lies and mothers against murderers. UK January 2015 • US February 2015 • 88 pages PB 9781472590299 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472590312 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781472590305 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Against a backdrop of Tory cuts, high unemployment and the deregulated economy of 1970s Britain, a young urban guerrilla group mobilises: The Angry Brigade. Their targets: MPs, embassies, police, pageant queens. A world of order is shattered by anarchy and the rules have changed. An uprising has begun. No one is exempt. As a special police squad hunt the homegrown terrorists whose identities shocked the nation, James Graham's heart-stopping thriller lures us into a frenzied world that looks much like our own. UK September 2014 • US October 2014 • 120 pages PB 9781474224789 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474224802 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474224796 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
The Armour
The Cherry Orchard
Ben Ellis
Anton Chekhov
"A genuinely thought-provoking piece." Independent
Adapted by Simon Stephens
Featuring three duologues, set in 2015, 1970 and 1981, all within the walls of London's Langham Hotel, The Armour is a site-specific drama about the lasting and changing effects of empire. UK March 2015 • US March 2015 • 72 pages PB 9781474256131 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474256155 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474256148 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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"Now Chekhov's final and finest play, from 1903, is the latest twentieth-century masterpiece to get a good going-over. Actually, make that an excellent going-over ... It's been pruned, yes, but this grimly witty tragicomedy is unmistakably Chekhov ... and it teems with life." The Times Vigorous and profound, this new version of Chekhov's classic play by Olivier award-winner Simon Stephens, from a literal translation by Helen Rappaport, is an anguished and heartbreaking love letter to a society in violent transition. UK October 2014 • US October 2014 • 104 pages PB 9781474231770 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474231794 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474231787 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
The Chronicles of Oggle
The Flannelettes
Peter Gowen
Richard Cameron
"Distils pure gold ... If the script mines a rich vein of comedy, it's unflinching in its depiction of the cruelty that Pakie endures ... Pakie − to some extent − encapsulates Ireland's 20th-century experience of, ultimately, overcoming severe adversity." Sunday Business Post Meet Pakie (short for Patrick); orphan, storyteller, adventurer and survivor. He may not be the sharpest sandwich in the tool box, but Pakie knows a thing or two about the history of his native town, from the vicious Vikings, to the less-than Christian Brothers. Pakie’s a laugh a minute ... but he’s got secrets. Secrets the God-fearing people of Oggle may not be ready to hear. Written by renowned Irish actor Peter Gowen, The Chronicles of Oggle is a hilarious and heartbreaking story of small towns and smaller minds.
Delie is special and she’s won a trophy for picking up litter from the mayor. Every summer she goes on her holidays to her Aunty Brenda who runs a women’s domestic abuse refuge in a Yorkshire mining village. Delie and her Aunty Brenda and a pawnbroker called George who wears a dress are The Flannelettes − a Motown tribute band.By the award-winning writer of The Glee Club, The Flanelettes is a tough, uncompromising play which looks at love and violence in a shattered community, all playing to a bittersweet soundtrack of Sixties soul. UK May 2015 • US June 2015 • 128 pages PB 9781474259637 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474259644 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474259651 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK March 2015 • US April 2015 • 64 pages PB 9781474232869 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474232883 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474232876 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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The Funfair
The House That Will Not Stand
Simon Stephens
Marcus Gardley
"Its gaudy despair ... is true, disturbing and widereaching." Guardian Simon Stephens’s exciting new adaptation of the twentieth-century classic Kasimir and Karoline is a dark, political and hilarious play that sets two young lovers in the throes of a break-up against the hypnotic whirl and bright lights of a funfair. UK May 2015 • US June 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474265843 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474265867 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474265850 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
New Orleans, 1836. Following an era of French colonial rule and relative racial acceptance, Louisiana’s ‘free people of color’ are prospering. Beatrice, a free woman of colour, has become one of the city’s wealthiest women through her relationship with a rich white man. However, when her lover mysteriously dies, Beatrice imposes a sixmonth period of mourning on herself and her three daughters. But, as the summer heat intensifies, the foundations of freedom she has built for herself and their three unwed daughters begin to crumble. A bewitching drama of desire, jealousy, murder and voodoo. UK October 2014 • 96 pages PB 9781474228848 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781474228879 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474228855 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market
The Mommo Plays
The Play That Goes Wrong
Brigit; Bailegangaire; A Thief of a Christmas
3rd Edition
Tom Murphy
"Immaculately staged ... reduced even a staid matinee audience to hysterics." The Times
"One of the finest and most inventive pieces of Irish dramatic writing ever − the power of its language soaring beyond the loftiest aspirations of Synge and its insights on the human spirit cutting deeper than O'Casey's." Sunday Independent on Bailegangaire Including the newly written Brigit, these three plays from one of Ireland's greatest living dramatists form a trilogy of the lives and legends of one small townland in the west of Ireland. Tom Murphy's writing excavates the myths of everyday life, describing the spirit and mindset that sits at the heart of modern Ireland. UK September 2014 • US September 2014 • 208 pages PB 9781474218108 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781474218115 • £14.99 / $22.99 • Library eBook 9781474218122 Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Henry Lewis, Henry Shields & Jonathan Sayer
After benefitting from a large and sudden inheritance, the inept and accident-prone Cornley Polytechnic Drama Society embark on producing an ambitious 1920s murder mystery. They are delighted that neither casting issues nor technical hitches currently stand in their way. However, hilarious disaster ensues and the cast start to crack under the pressure, but can they get the production back on track before the final curtain falls? The Play That Goes Wrong is a farcical murder mystery, a play within a play, conceived and performed by awardwinning company Theatre Mischief. UK January 2015 • US February 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474244947 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474244978 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474244954 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
The Red Chair
The Rolling Stone
Sarah Cameron
Chris Urch
Adapted by Sarah Cameron, Paul Clark and Suzy Willson "There are elements of fairy tale here, in the story and its method of telling, and yet this is a dance of sorts, with its rhythms and its stresses, and language − a kind of heightened Scots − is pivotal to the piece: words bend and sway and stretch ... a hypnotic experience." The Stage A tale of gluttony and isolation, of food and of books, The Red Chair sees acclaimed Scottish performer Sarah Cameron steer us through a landscape of twisted reason, extreme compulsion and eye-watering complacency, where domestic drudgery happens on an operatic scale and a father's dereliction of duty reaches epic proportions.
Dembe and Sam have been seeing each other for a while. They should be wondering where this is going and when to introduce each other to their families. But they're gay and this is Uganda. The consequences of their relationship being discovered will be violent and explosive. Especially for Dembe, whose brother goes into the pulpit each week to denounce the evils of one man loving another. The Rolling Stone received a Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2013. UK April 2015 • US May 2015 • 112 pages PB 9781474259453 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474259477 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474259460 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK February 2015 • US March 2015 • 80 pages PB 9781474249348 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474249355 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474249362 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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The Ruling Class
The Wolf From The Door
Peter Barnes
Rory Mullarkey
"Witty, angry, ugly and alive." The Times
"Mullarkey has fun with the juxtaposition of quaint English custom and unadulterated savagery, and he offers some hilarious dialogue ... Mullarkey has considerable talent ... exhilarating." Daily Telegraph
Jack, a possible paranoid schizophrenic with a Messiah complex, inherits the title of the 14th Earl of Gurney after his father passes away in a bizarre accident. Singularly unsuited to a life in the upper echelons of elite society, Jack finds himself at the centre of a ruthless power struggle as his scheming family strives to uphold their reputation. Bubbling with acerbic wit and feverish energy, Olivier Award-winning and Oscar-nominated-writer Peter Barnes’s 1968 razor-sharp satire combines a ferocious mix of hilarity and horror whilst mercilessly exposing the foibles of the English nobility.
In this intensely imaginative and daringly bravethinking play, award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey imagines a wild road trip across Middle England. Together, Lady Catherine and her young protégé Leo enlist every tearoom, hot yoga class and Women's Institute group on a mission to change the country forever. This play was the 2014 Pinter Commission and the winner of the George Devine Award.
UK January 2015 • US June 2015 • 136 pages PB 9781474248532 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474248556 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474248549 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
UK September 2014 • US October 2014 • 64 pages PB 9781474221924 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474221948 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474221931 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
Wittgenstein The Crooked Roads William Lyons "This play is undaunted by [Wittgenstein's] famously incomprehensible ideas ... [It] grabs philosophical enquiry by the shoulders and gives it a good shake ... Wittgenstein is not afraid to air philosophical ideas. Did we understand them all? No. Will you understand them? Probably not. Does that matter? Not a bit. In fact that’s the whole point." Londonist Difficult to know and impossible to forget, Ludwig Wittgenstein is remembered as the greatest philosopher of the twentieth century. He published only one book in his lifetime — a masterpiece that moulded the evolution of philosophy and baffled his teachers. Spanning most of his life, from his early encounters with Bertrand Russell in Cambridge to a final trip to New York via the Russian Front, Wittgenstein: The Crooked Roads tracks the journeys of a tortured soul. UK February 2015 • US April 2015 • 88 pages PB 9781474218412 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474218436 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474218429 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Modern Classics The Modern Classics series, spanning over a half century of publishing, offers a selection of the best plays from the modern repertoire from leading British and international playwrights. Many feature an introduction and all are presented in a distinctive series design.
Masterpieces Sarah Daniels "A very powerful evening of theatre ... Miss Daniels has established herself as a distinct voice with real theatrical flair." Michael Coveney, Financial Times Masterpieces is an angry and defiant play, first staged in 1983, at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, before transferring to the Royal Court Theatre, London. A standout classic of feminist theatre, it earned Daniels a London Theatre Critics Award for Most Promising Playwright. This edition introduces Sarah Daniels into the Modern Classics series and features an introduction by Elaine Aston, Professor of Contemporary Performance at Lancaster University. UK March 2016 • US March 2016 • 80 pages PB 9781474218061 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781474218085 • £9.99 / $15.99 • Library eBook 9781474218078 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English
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Robert Bolt
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Jonathan Harvey
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Noël Coward
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Willy Russell
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Willy Russell
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Joe Orton
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Bertolt Brecht
9780413772664
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Simon Stephens
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Noël Coward
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David Harrower
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Bertolt Brecht
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Joe Orton
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Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht
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David Mamet
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Arnold Wesker
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Edward Bond
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Caryl Churchill
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Shopping and F***ing
Mark Ravenhill
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David Mamet
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Frank Wedekind
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Willy Russell
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Roy Williams
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Martin McDonagh
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Bertolt Brecht
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Bertolt Brecht
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Martin McDonagh
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Martin McDonagh
9780413719805
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Katori Hall
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Philip Ridley
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Bertolt Brecht
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Howard Brenton
9781472574398
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Bertolt Brecht
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Anthony Neilson
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Caryl Churchill
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James Graham
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The Actor Speaks, Rodenburg PB 9780413700308 1998 £17.99 $29.95
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The Body Speaks, 2nd edition, Marshall PB 9781408106822 2008 £16.99
The Invisible Actor, Marshall, Oida PB 9780413696106 2002 £10.99 $15.95
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The Methuen Drama Book of Monologues for Young Actors, (ed.) Harvey
Shakespeare's Theatres and the Effects of Performance, (ed.) Karim-Cooper, Stern PB 9781472558596 2014 £19.99 $34.95
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Theatre Games, Barker
Played in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays, Dorney, Gray PB 9781472568670 2014 £16.99 $29.95
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Ostrich Boys, Gray, Miller
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Voice and Speech in the Theatre, 6th edition, Turner PB 9780713681888 2007 £15.99 $21.95
Voice and the Young Actor: A workbook and DVD, Cook PB 9781408154601 2012 £21.99 $34.95
Shakespeare Acting Companies and their Plays in Shakespeare's London, Keenan PB 9781408146637 2014 £18.99 $32.95
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Ravenhill Plays: 2, Ravenhill PB 9781408106792 2008 £14.99 $24.95
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, Haddon, Stephens PB 9781408185216 2013 £9.99 $14.95
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Three Uses Of The Knife: On the Nature and Purpose of Drama, Mamet
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Ravenhill Plays: 1, Ravenhill
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Modern Drama
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The Moving Body (Le Corps Poetique), Lecoq
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Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors PB 9781408106730 2008 £14.99 $19.95
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Inside Story, Marks
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So You Want to be a Producer, Turman PB 9780413775849 2006 £15.99
Towards A Poor Theatre, 2nd edition, Grotowski PB 9780413349101 1975 £15.99
Working in American Theatre, 2nd edition, Volz PB 9781408134733 2011 £13.99 $21.95
Writing Comedy, 4th edition, Byrne
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Berliner Ensemble Adaptations, Brecht, (ed.) Barnett PB 9781472514387 2014 £19.99 $29.95
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Contact.com �������������������������������������������������������������������������20
Acting Workbook, The ������������������������������������������������������������ 9 Actor-Musicianship �����������������������������������������������������������������11 Actors and Performers Yearbook 2016 ���������������������������������������� 9 Actor's Business Plan, The �������������������������������������������������������� 9 Anecdotal Shakespeare �����������������������������������������������������������13 Angry Brigade, The �����������������������������������������������������������������25 Antigone �������������������������������������������������������������������������������18 Armour, The �������������������������������������������������������������������������25 Auditioning for Film and Television �������������������������������������������� 9 Austin Eyer, J. ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 9
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Cook, Amy ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Corrieri, Augusto �������������������������������������������������������������������� 5 Coward, Noël �����������������������������������������������������������������������15 Cox, Lucia �����������������������������������������������������������������������������23 Cracking Shakespeare �������������������������������������������������������������12 Croall, Jonathan �������������������������������������������������������������������13 Curious Directive �������������������������������������������������������������������23 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Edition, The ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time GCSE Student Guide, The ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������16
Banks, Anthony ���������������������������������������������������������������������18
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Barnes, Peter �����������������������������������������������������������������������27
Daniels, Sarah �����������������������������������������������������������������������27
Before Monsters Were Made �����������������������������������������������������18
Davies, Molly �������������������������������������������������������������������������21
Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life �������������������������������������������������� 7
Day, Barry �����������������������������������������������������������������������������15
Beyond Caring �����������������������������������������������������������������������19
Death of a Salesman' in Beijing �������������������������������������������������� 7
Bickley, Pamela ���������������������������������������������������������������������13
Directing Shakespeare in America ���������������������������������������������13
Bishop, Nancy ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 9
Disability Theatre and Modern Drama ���������������������������������������� 4
Blair, Rhonda �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 6
Drake Brody, Jane ������������������������������������������������������������������ 9
Blake Skelton, Shannon ���������������������������������������������������������� 4
Dungan, Ross �������������������������������������������������������������������������18
Blood �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������19
DuVal, Christopher �����������������������������������������������������������������10
Blood Brothers GCSE Student Edition �����������������������������������������16 Blood Brothers GCSE Student Guide �������������������������������������������16
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Bolton, Jacqueline �����������������������������������������������������������������16
Each Slow Dusk ���������������������������������������������������������������������20
Bouchard, Gianna �������������������������������������������������������������������� 6
Early Modern Actors and Shakespeare's Theatre ���������������������������13
Braun, Edward ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 7
Edward Bond: The Playwright Speaks ������������������������������������������ 7
Brecht, Bertolt ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 8
Eldridge, David ���������������������������������������������������������������������21
Broadway Swings �������������������������������������������������������������������� 9
Ellis, Ben �����������������������������������������������������������������������������25
Burgess, Anthony �������������������������������������������������������������������23
Ewans, Michael ���������������������������������������������������������������������11
Bush, Sophie �������������������������������������������������������������������������16
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Business Affairs of Mr Julius Caesar, The ������������������������������������ 8
Falletti, Clelia ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 6
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Finburgh, Clare ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 3
Cameron, Richard �������������������������������������������������������������������25
Fireworks �����������������������������������������������������������������������������20
Cameron, Sarah ���������������������������������������������������������������������26
Fisher, Mark ��������������������������������������������������������������������������11
Carey, David �������������������������������������������������������������������������12
Flannelettes, The �������������������������������������������������������������������25
Carmen Disruption �����������������������������������������������������������������19
Four minutes twelve seconds ���������������������������������������������������20
Chandler, Katherine ���������������������������������������������������������������23
Frances-White, Deborah ���������������������������������������������������������10
Chef �����������������������������������������������������������������������������������19
Franklin Smith, Lyndy �������������������������������������������������������������� 9
Chekhov, Anton ���������������������������������������������������������������������25
Fritz, James �������������������������������������������������������������������������20
Cherry Orchard, The ���������������������������������������������������������������25
Funfair, The �������������������������������������������������������������������������26
Chicken Dust �������������������������������������������������������������������������19
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Chronicles of Oggle, The ���������������������������������������������������������25 City Stories ���������������������������������������������������������������������������20 Clark Carey, Rebecca �������������������������������������������������������������12 Clark, Paul ���������������������������������������������������������������������������26 Clifton, Alex �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 9 Closer ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������20 Collected Essays of Arthur Miller, The ���������������������������������������� 7
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Contemporary American Monologue, The ������������������������������������ 3
Gao Xingjian’s Post-Exile Plays �������������������������������������������������� 5 Garde, Ulrike ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3 Gardley, Marcus ���������������������������������������������������������������������26 God Bless the Child ���������������������������������������������������������������21 Gowen, Peter �����������������������������������������������������������������������25 Graham, James ���������������������������������������������������������������������25 Greenhill, Ella Carmen �����������������������������������������������������������24
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H Haddon, Mark �����������������������������������������������������������������������16 Harajuku Girls �����������������������������������������������������������������������21 Harrison, Jeremy �������������������������������������������������������������������11 Hayhurst, Mark ���������������������������������������������������������������������25 Heisenberg ���������������������������������������������������������������������������21 Holy Warriors �����������������������������������������������������������������������21 Homann, Greg ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Hopelessly Devoted ���������������������������������������������������������������21 Horton, Caroline �������������������������������������������������������������������22 House That Will Not Stand, The �����������������������������������������������26 How to Write About Theatre ���������������������������������������������������11 Howard Barker's Theatre: Wrestling with Catastrophe ������������������ 3 Hunter, Kelly �������������������������������������������������������������������������12 Hussain, Emteaz ���������������������������������������������������������������������19
Mazzilli, Mary ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 5 McAleavey, Jimmy �����������������������������������������������������������������23 McDowall, Alistair �������������������������������������������������������������������24 McQueen: or Lee and Beauty ���������������������������������������������������22 Menzer, Paul �������������������������������������������������������������������������13 Merkin, Ros ���������������������������������������������������������������������������16 Mermikides, Alex �������������������������������������������������������������������� 6 Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary South African Theatre, The 4 Meyerhold on Theatre �������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Middeke, Martin ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4 Milked ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������23 Miller, Arthur �������������������������������������������������������������������������� 7 Mommo Plays, The �����������������������������������������������������������������26 Monsters, Dinosaurs, Ghosts �����������������������������������������������������23 Moran, James ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 4 Mort, Skip �����������������������������������������������������������������������������11
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Mullarkey, Rory ����������������������������������������������������������������20, 27
I and The Village �������������������������������������������������������������������21
Mumford, Meg ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 3
In Place of a Show ������������������������������������������������������������������ 5
Murphy, Tom �������������������������������������������������������������������������26
Islands ���������������������������������������������������������������������������������22
Musical Theatre Song �������������������������������������������������������������11
J Jacono, Victor ������������������������������������������������������������������������ 6 Johnston, Kirsty ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4
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My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Edition �������������������16 My Mother Said I Never Should GCSE Student Guide ���������������������16
N National Theatre Connections 2015 �������������������������������������������18 Naylor, Clem �������������������������������������������������������������������������20
Keatley, Charlotte �����������������������������������������������������������������16
Ney, Charles �������������������������������������������������������������������������13
Kelman, Stephen �������������������������������������������������������������������18
Nneka Atuona, Diana ���������������������������������������������������������������22
Kim Lee, Esther ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 4
Noël Coward Screenplays ���������������������������������������������������������15
Kingsbury, Michael �����������������������������������������������������������������20 Klippies �������������������������������������������������������������������������������22
O Obisesan, Gbolahan ���������������������������������������������������������������18
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Off the Mic ���������������������������������������������������������������������������10
Lampedusa ���������������������������������������������������������������������������22
One Hand Clapping �����������������������������������������������������������������23
Late Work of Sam Shepard, The ������������������������������������������������ 4
Osborne, Charles �������������������������������������������������������������������� 8
Lavery, Carl ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 3
Outstanding Actor, The ������������������������������������������������������������ 9
Lewis, Henry ��������������������������������������������������������������������23, 26 Liberian Girl �������������������������������������������������������������������������22
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Longman, Simon ���������������������������������������������������������������������23
Parallel Lines �����������������������������������������������������������������������23
Lovesong of the Electric Bear ���������������������������������������������������22
Parker, Stephen ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 7
Lustgarten, Anders ������������������������������������������������������������22, 24
Paterson, Eddie ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 3
Lyons, William �����������������������������������������������������������������������27
Performance and the Medical Body �������������������������������������������� 6
M Mahfouz, Sabrina �������������������������������������������������������������������19
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Performing King Lear �������������������������������������������������������������13 Performing Opera �����������������������������������������������������������������11 Peter Pan Goes Wrong �������������������������������������������������������������23
Mamet Plays: 5 ���������������������������������������������������������������������15
Phelan, Anthony ���������������������������������������������������������������������� 8
Mamet Plays: 6 ���������������������������������������������������������������������15
Phillips, James ������������������������������������������������������������������20, 22
Mamet, David �����������������������������������������������������������������������15
Philosophy of Comedy on Stage and Screen, A ������������������������������ 5
Marber, Patrick ���������������������������������������������������������������������20
Pigeon English �����������������������������������������������������������������������18
Masterpieces �������������������������������������������������������������������������27
Pioneer �������������������������������������������������������������������������������23
Matura, Mustapha �������������������������������������������������������������������24
Pitches, Jonathan �������������������������������������������������������������������� 7
May, Shaun ���������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5
Plastic Figurines �������������������������������������������������������������������24
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INDEX Play Mas �������������������������������������������������������������������������������24 Play That Goes Wrong, The �����������������������������������������������������26 Playing Scared �����������������������������������������������������������������������11 Pomona �������������������������������������������������������������������������������24 Price, Tim �����������������������������������������������������������������������������15 Purdy, Stephen ���������������������������������������������������������������������11
T Taha, Dalia ���������������������������������������������������������������������������20 Taken At Midnight �����������������������������������������������������������������25 Teaching Shakespeare with Purpose �������������������������������������������13 Tempest, Kate �����������������������������������������������������������������������21 Theatre and Cognitive Neuroscience ������������������������������������������ 6 Theatre in Education in Britain �������������������������������������������������� 4
Q Quirk, Sophie ������������������������������������������������������������������������� 5
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