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John Logan Under the watchful gaze of his young assistant and the threatening presence of a new generation of artists, Mark Rothko takes on his greatest challenge yet: to create a defi nitive work for an extraordinary setting. A moving and compelling account of one of the greatest artists of the 20th century whose struggle to accept his growing riches and praise became his ultimate undoing. Nominated for 7 Olivier Awards (2009) and winner of 6 Tony Awards (2010) including Best New Play, Red is published in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Michael Grandage.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 112 pages PB 9781350200449 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350200463 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350200456 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays
Sagittarius Ponderosa; The Betterment Society; how to clean your room; She He Me; The Devils Between Us; Doctor Voynich and Her Children; Firebird Tattoo; Crooked Parts
Edited by Leanna Keyes, playwright, USA, Lindsey Mantoan, Linfi eld College, USA & Angela Farr Schiller, Cobb Energy Performing Arts Centre, USA The fi rst play anthology to offer six new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. It establishes a canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex. The plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers.
UK May 2021 • US May 2021 • 336 pages PB 9781350179219 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350179202 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350179233 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350179226 • £22.49 / $28.32 Methuen Drama World English
Plays from Romania: Dramaturgies of Subversion
Lowlands; The Spectator Sentenced to Death; The Passport; Stories of the Body (Artemisia, Eva, Lina, Teresa); The Man Who Had All His Malice Removed; Sexodrome
Translated by Jozefi na Komporaly This collection refl ects the diversity of dramatic writing exploring the past and present of Romania, and takes stock 30 years after the collapse of communism. In addition to plays originally written in Romanian, the collection includes work by German, Hungarian and Roma authors born and/or working in Romania, and brings together plays written during the communist period and its aftermath.
UK October 2021 • US October 2021 • 304 pages PB 9781350214286 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350214293 • £75.00 / $100.00 ePub 9781350214316 • £22.49 / $28.32 ePdf 9781350214309 • £22.49 / $28.32 Methuen Drama World English Andrea Dunbar Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fl ing each of them think they control. Andrea Dunbar's semi-autobiographical play, written for the Royal Court Theatre in 1982 when she was just 19, is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising future, both hungry for adult adventure. Published for the fi rst time in Methuen Drama's Modern Classics series, featuring a new introduction by Katie Beswick.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 96 pages PB 9781350184961 • £10.99 / $14.95 ePub 9781350184985 • £9.89 / $12.31 ePdf 9781350184992 • £9.89 / $12.31 Series: Modern Classics • Methuen Drama World English
Celebrating 30 Years of Kali Theatre's South Asian Women Playwrights
Kali Theatre Published to celebrate the 30th anniversary year of Kali Theatre this is a brand new book of 60 monologues and duologues spoken by South Asian characters to be performed by actors from a South Asian/dual heritage background in auditions, workshops and acting classes. Drawn from, or adapted from the rich collection of full-length plays by women writers of South Asian descent that Kali Theatre have developed and presented over the past 30 years, this collection is a celebratory, revolutionary and necessary addition for actors and performers.
UK September 2021 • US September 2021 • 176 pages PB 9781350203891 • £14.99 / $19.95 ePub 9781350203914 • £14.99 / $18.47 ePdf 9781350203907 • £14.99 / $18.47 Series: Audition Speeches • Methuen Drama
Simon Stephens Plays 5
Wastwater; Birdland; Blindsided; Song From Far Away; Heisenberg
Simon Stephens
"Stephens writes dramas set in uncaring, uncompromising worlds, whose characters speak in a language at once naturalistic and yet artifi cially pared-down and whose uncertain attempts to assert their own identities sometimes lead to gratuitous and brutal acts of violence." - Financial Times
A fi fth collection of plays by one of Britain's most prolifi c contemporary playwrights, Simon Stephens, charting his work from 2011-2016, ranging from London's Royal Court Theatre, Manchester's Royal Exchange and Broadway.
UK July 2021 • US July 2021 • 432 pages PB 9781350235670 • £19.99 / $26.95 ePub 9781350235694 • £17.99 / $22.16 ePdf 9781350235687 • £17.99 / $22.16 Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English
