A spotlight on plays and drama

Research findings show:

In 2019 assessments, 0% of English Literature students answered a question on a play by a Global Majority writer

In 2022 assessments, 90% of drama set texts available at GCSE English

Literature and 96% at A Level are written by white playwrights

By 2025, GCSE and A Level English

Literature students in England and Wales will have the option to choose from 10 new modern plays by writers of colour

Change is coming. Be part of it.

Download the research report and find out more at Bloomsbury.com/ LitinColour

Arthur Miller Plays 4

The Golden Years; The Man Who Had All the Luck; I Can't Remember Anything;

Clara

Arthur Miller

This fourth anthology of Arthur Miller's work features two of his early plays: The Golden Years, a historical tragedy about Montezuma's destruction at the hands of Cortez, and The Man Who Had All the Luck, a fable about human freedom and individual responsibility It also features two of his later, shorter plays, I Can't Remember Anything and Clara, which were first presented on a double bill as Danger! Memory and highlight the dangers of remembering the past

UK February 2023 288 pages

PB 9781350335301 • £19 99 ePub 9781350335318 • £17 99 ePdf 9781350335325 • £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Arthur Miller Plays 6

Broken Glass; Mr Peters' Connections; Resurrection Blues; Finishing the Picture

Arthur Miller

This final volume in Methuen Drama's acclaimed series of works by Arthur Miller, features one of his most acclaimed pieces: the semi-autobiographical Broken Glass (1994) which "balances private lives with public morality it is also an amazingly full-blooded piece, bursting with pain and passion " (Daily Telegraph)

This volume also contains two of Miller's final works: the cerebral Mr Peters' Connections (1998), which journeys through the suspended consciousness of an aging pilot, and Resurrection Blues (2002), a black comedy set in a South American banana republic, that satirises global politics and the predatory nature of a media-saturated culture

UK February 2023

• 312 pages

PB 9781350354425 £19 99 ePub 9781350354432 £17 99 ePdf 9781350354449 • £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

Anna Ziegler Plays Two

The Great Moment; Another Way Home; The Wanderers; Actually

Anna Ziegler

"[Her] dialogue bristles with smart, eloquent talk … Ms. Ziegler’s quietly lyrical language has a luminous beauty, and her talent for creating characters whose complicated depths are just visible on their surfaces is still more remarkable." – The New York Times

This second play collection from one of America's most successful theatre writers brings together four plays that offer differing perspectives on family and the human condition Each play has enjoyed successful productions in cities across America, cementing Ziegler's position as one of the world's most exciting contemporary dramatists

UK March 2023

• US March 2023

PB 9781350349681

Arthur Miller Plays 5

The Last Yankee; The Ride Down Mount Morgan; Almost Everybody Wins

Arthur Miller

This fifth volume of Arthur Miller's work contains two plays from the early 1990s: his highly acclaimed The Last Yankee (1993), which The Guardian called "a fine and moving play ... Like all Miller's best work, it effortlessly links private and public worlds by connecting personal desperation to insane American values"; and The Ride Down Mount Morgan (1991), which explores themes of bigamy and betrayal, described as "searching, scorching, harsh but compassionate" (The Sunday Times) This volume also contains Almost Everybody Wins, the original version of the screenplay Arthur Miller wrote for Karel Reisz's film, 'Everybody Wins'.

UK February 2023 • 256 pages

PB 9781350354395 • £19 99 ePub 9781350354401 • £17 99 ePdf 9781350354418 £17 99

Methuen Drama

Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market

My White Best Friend

Volume 2: North

Based on the original concept by playwright

Rachel De-Lahay and commissioned by Everyman & Playhouse theatres, Eclipse and the Royal Exchange, this follow-up volume to My White Best Friend (And Other Letters Left Unsaid) collects a series of 20 personal letters, monologues and writings by BIPOC writers from across the North of England

Sometimes funny, sometimes poignant, sometimes political and full of fire, these letters explore the personal and political of the things we don’t dare say – even to those closest to us Contributors include: Yusra Warsama, Malika Booker and Jamal Gerald

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 224 pages

PB 9781350352032 • £15 99 / $21 95 ePub 9781350352056 • £14 39 / $20 24 ePdf 9781350352049 £14 39 / $20 24

Methuen Drama World English

Radio Plays

The Wasted Years; Crossing the River; The Prince of Africa; Writing Fiction; A Kind of Home: James Baldwin in Paris; Hotel Cristobel; A Long Way from Home; Dinner in the Village; Somewhere in England

• 224 pages

• £19 99 / $24 95 ePub 9781350349698 ePdf 9781350349704

Methuen Drama

World English

• £17 99 / $24 29

• £17 99 / $24 29

Caryl Phillips

Edited by Bénédicte Ledent, University of Liège, Belgium

Caryl Phillips is one of the most respected writers of his generation An award-winning author, he is best known for his fiction, his essays and his stage plays What is less commonly known is that he also wrote radio plays, nine of which were broadcast by the BBC between 1984 and 2016 Previously hidden away in Phillips’s archives, housed in the Beinecke Library at Yale University, this anthology is the first time they have been collected in one edition

UK January 2023 US February 2023 344 pages 5 bw illus

• £24 99 / $34 95 • HB 9781350300064

PB 9781350300057 ePub 9781350300095 ePdf 9781350300071

Methuen Drama

World English

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £22 49 / $31 04

• £75 00 / $100 00

Writing for Stage and Screen Creating a Perception Shift in the Audience

Sherry Kramer, Bennington College, USA

In this structured look at the way audience members progress through a work in real time, Sherry Kramer helps writers and artists discover how to make work that will mean more to their audiences By using examples drawn from plays, film, and streaming series, this study makes its concepts accessible to a range of artists who work in what Kramer terms 'timebound art ' The book also features exercises, developed with MFA writers in The Iowa Playwrights Workshop and The Michener Center for Writers, which provide entrance points to help artists consider and create their work

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 256 pages • 4 bw illus

PB 9781350338265 • £19 99 / $26 95 • HB 9781350338272 • £65 00 / $90 00 ePub 9781350338289 • £17 99 / $24 29 ePdf 9781350338296 • £17 99 / $24 29

Series: Introductions to Theatre Methuen Drama

Sites of Transformation

Applied and Socially Engaged

Scenography in Rural Landscapes

Louise Ann Wilson, Theatre maker, UK

In this book practitioner and scholar Louise Ann Wilson examines the expanding field of socially engaged scenography and promotes the development of scenography as an applied art form with transformative and therapeutic outcomes. It includes reflections on walking, autobiographical and landscape performance and art practices from Early Romanticism and the Land Art movement of the 1960s to present day Case studies include Fissure (2011), Ghost Bird (2012), The Gathering (2014), Warnscale (2015), Mulliontide (2016), Dorothy's Room (2018) and Women’s Walks to Remember (20182019) Each is illustrated and is supported by evidential material demonstrating the effects of the practice and research�

UK August 2023 US August 2023 248 pages 30 bw illus

PB 9781350282759 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350104440 ePub 9781350104457 • £67 50 / $91 79 ePdf 9781350104464 • £67 50 / $91 79

Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

Rethinking Roland Barthes Through Performance A Desire for Neutral Dramaturgy

Edited by Harry Robert Wilson & Will Daddario

The first book to map the influence of Roland Barthes on performance through a series of reflections from internationally renowned performance-makers and contextualising essays from leading theatre and performance scholars across the world The contributions are framed through Barthes's notion of 'neutral dramaturgies' and cover the breadth of Barthes's work from his essay 'The Death of the Author' (1967), Mythologies (1972), Camera Lucida (1981) and A Lover's Discourse (1990) to his most recently published lecture courses

UK June 2023 • US June 2023 • 256 pages • 10 bw illus

HB 9781350330849 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350330856 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350330863 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Thinking Through Theatre Methuen Drama

Applied Theatre: Ethics

Edited by Kirsten Sadeghi-Yekta, University of Victoria, Canada & Monica Prendergast, University of Victoria, Canada

This book considers what it means for applied theatre practice to be conducted in an ethical way and examines how this affects the work done with communities and participants While Part One offers an overview of critical debates and the editors' reflections on their own practice, Part Two presents a range of international case studies that explore how the theories and issues are worked out in a variety of diverse practices These case studies include projects in Australia, Nigeria, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, the United Kingdom and Canada and involve participants of many ages, from children to seniors

UK August 2023 • US August 2023 • 296 pages • 10 bw illus

PB 9781350288706 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350161320 ePub 9781350161337 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350161344 • £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama

Staging the End of the World Theatre in a Time of Climate Crisis

Brian Kulick, Columbia University, USA

This book is a brief history of the end of the world as seen through the eyes of theatre It examines a wide range of plays, from Euripides and Bhasa, to medieval mystery cycles, through Shakespeare, Pushkin, Ibsen, Chekhov, Brecht, and Samuel Beckett, to Caryl Churchill’s Far Away, Tony Kushner’s Slavs!, and Anne Washburn’s Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play. Through analyzing these alongside contemporary thinkers, this study helps guide and galvanize the reader in grappling with the climate crisis

UK January 2023

• US January 2023

PB 9781350309951

• £19 99 / $26 95 ePub 9781350309920

• 280 pages

• HB 9781350309913

• £17 99 / $24 29 ePdf 9781350309937 £17 99 / $24 29

Methuen Drama

• £65 00 / $90 00

Livecasting in Twenty-FirstCentury British Theatre

NT Live and the Aesthetics of Spectacle, Materiality and Engagement

Heidi Lucja Liedke, University of KoblenzLandau, Germany

Taking a fresh approach to the study of live theatre broadcasting, this book focuses on NT Live a decade after its launch It embeds livecasting in its historical context, assesses its position in contemporary discourse, both in a pre- and post-pandemic moment, and points towards its future Navigating between an interdisciplinary range of 20th- and 21st-century theorists from the fields of cultural studies, theatre studies and performance philosophy, it combines analyses of recent NT Live shows including A Midsummer Night’s Dream (2019), Antony and Cleopatra (2018) and Small Island (2019), with auto-ethnographic accounts and insights from practitioners

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 256 pages • 20 bw illus

HB 9781350340961 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350340978 ePdf 9781350340985

Methuen Drama

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Critical Companions

The Drama and Theatre of Annie Baker

Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota, USA

In the first book-length study of Annie Baker, Amy Muse guides readers through her critically acclaimed plays and other work She illuminates their intellectual and ethical themes by contextualizing them with the other works of theatre, art, theology, and psychology that Baker read while writing Through close discussions of her plays, this book immerses readers in Baker’s attunement to everyday language, her themes of loneliness, desire, empathy, and storytelling, and her innovations with stage time Enriched by interviews and engaging essays by three scholars, this is a companionable guide that deepens the reader’s knowledge and appreciation of Baker’s dramatic invention

UK August 2023

• US August 2023

HB 9781350319974

Dramatic Apparitions and Theatrical Ghosts

The Staging of Illusion across Time and Cultures

Edited by Ann C. Hall, University of Louisville, USA & Alan Nadel, University of Kentucky, USA Ghosts haunt the stages of world drama, appearing in classical Greek drama through to the plays of 21st-century dramatists Tracing the phenomenon across time and in different cultures, the essays collected here examine their representation, dramatic function and what they may tell us about the belief systems of their original audiences and the conditions of theatrical production As illusions of illusions, they foreground many dramatic themes common to a wide variety of periods and cultures Contributors consider their appearance in works by Aeschylus, early modern dramatists, in traditional Japanese theatre, through to the work of 21st-century dramatists

UK September 2023 • US September 2023 • 256 pages • 9 bw illus

HB 9781350371699 • £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350371705 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350371712 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Clive Barker and His Legacy Theatre Workshop and Theatre Games

Edited by Paul Fryer, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK & Nesta Jones, Rose Bruford College of Theatre and Performance, UK

UK September 2023 US September 2023 240 pages 8 bw

PB 9781350296169 £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350128477 ePub 9781350128491 • £67 50 / $91 79 ePdf 9781350128484 • £67 50 / $91 79

Methuen Drama

The Theatre of Paula Vogel Practice, Pedagogy, and Influences

Lee Brewer Jones, Georgia State University, USA

This volume examines Paula Vogel as both a playwright and a professor, analyzing texts and early reviews of her major plays—including Indecent, Desdemona, How I Learned to Drive and The Baltimore Waltz—before turning attention to Vogel's influence upon other major playwrights, such as Sarah Ruhl and Lynn Nottage Enriched by essays from Ana Fernández-Caparrós and Amy Muse and an interview with Lynn Nottage, this is a vibrant exploration of Paula Vogel as a major American playwright

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

• 224 pages

HB 9781350251717 £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350251724 £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350251731

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Critical Companions

• Methuen Drama

• 232 pages

• £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350319981

• £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350319998 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Critical Companions Methuen Drama

Affair of the Heart

British Theatre from 1992 to 2020

Michael Billington

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 344 pages

PB 9781350367258 • £16 99 / $22 95

Previously published in HB 9781350214774 ePub 9781350214798 £27 00 / $37 79 ePdf 9781350214781 £27 00 / $37 79

Methuen Drama

World English

Anxious Masculinity in the Drama of Arthur Miller and Beyond

Salesmen, Sluggers, and Big Daddies

Claire Gleitman, Ithaca College, USA

Examining the figure of the anxious male breadwinner as he is incarnated in Arthur Miller’s most celebrated plays, this study focuses on the gender dynamics of this figure and traces how he resurfaces in different guises throughout American drama from the 1950s to the present day It takes in the work of Tennessee Williams, Lorraine Hansberry, August Wilson and Sam Shepard, through to the plays of Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel, and collaborators Lisa Kron and Jeanine Tesori

UK July 2023 • US July 2023 • 240 pages

PB 9781350272972 • £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350271111 ePub 9781350272989 • £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350272996 • £76 50 / $103 94

Methuen Drama

Modernists and the Theatre

The Drama of W B Yeats, Ezra Pound, D H Lawrence, James Joyce, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf

James Moran, University of Nottingham, UK

Modernists and the Theatre is the first study to examine how theories of modernism intersect with those of the theatre within the works, philosophies and literary lives of six key modernist writers: W B Yeats, Ezra Pound, James Joyce, D H Lawrence, T S Eliot and Virginia Woolf Drawing on archive material and neglected documents, James Moran reveals how these figures interacted with theatre through playwriting, engaging in philosophical debates and participating in performances Moran uncovers how the playhouse became a space where highmodernists could explore a tension that fascinated them, and which motivated much of their wider thinking and literary work

UK July 2023 • US July 2023

• 256 pages

PB 9781350282438 • £24 99 / $34 95

Previously published in HB 9781350145498 ePub 9781350145504 • £67 50 / $91 79 ePdf 9781350145511 • £67 50 / $91 79

Methuen Drama

Romantic Comedy

Trevor R. Griffiths, London

A historical and critical exploration of one of the most durable genres of stage comedy from its beginnings to the present, centring on the British tradition Through a series of case studies including Twelfth Night, Susanna Centlivre’s A Bold Stroke for a Wife, Oliver Goldsmith’s She Stoops to Conquer and Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, the book explores and analyses the shapes that Romantic Comedy has assumed in the theatre from Greek New Comedy via Shakespeare to the present and charts the ways in which the form has been shaped by changing social norms�

UK September 2023 US September 2023 184 pages 10 bw illus

PB 9781350183414 • £28 99 / $39 95

Previously published in HB 9781350183377 ePub 9781350183384 • £58 50 / $79 64 ePdf 9781350183391 • £58 50 / $79 64

Series: Forms of Drama • Methuen Drama

Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

William C. Boles, Rollins College, USA & Anja Hartl, University of Konstanz, Germany

Performing the Queer Past

Public Possessions

Fintan Walsh, Birkbeck, University of London, UK

How do contemporary theatre and performance appear to be possessed by the queer past? This book explores how the queer past is invoked via strategies of channeling and haunting, working through and out, recollection and replay, commodification and reproduction, occupation and commemoration, intermedial recontextualisation and dissemination It focuses on an eclectic range of case studies – including Artangel, Dickie Beau, Jeremy O Harris, Karen Finley, Milo Rau, Rachel Mars, Split Britches and Travis Alabanza – and practices that encompass digital theatre, experimental performance, installation, live art and site-specific interventions

UK September 2023 US September 2023 256 pages 17 bw illus

• £85 00 / $115 00

HB 9781350297968 ePub 9781350297975 ePdf 9781350297982

• £76 50 / $103 94

• £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances

• Methuen Drama

Performing Left Populism Performance, Politics and the People

Edited by Théo Aiolfi, CY Cergy Paris University, France & Goran Petrovic Lotina, University of Warwick, UK

This interdisciplinary volume offers new insights into the connections between populism and performance Exploring the populist roots of a number of performances, the contributors to this study analyze the potentials and limits of the new forms of left populism Combining performance studies and political theory, it demonstrates how various performance practices give rise to populism, and offers both scholars and practitioners of performance a thought-provoking analysis of the ways in which performance can be viewed politically This vital study expands the debate about left populism towards more radical strategies of mobilization, collectivism and democratic politics

UK July 2023

• US July 2023

HB 9781350347045

• 5 bw illus

• 224 pages

• £85 00 / $115 00 ePub 9781350347052

• £76 50 / $103 94 ePdf 9781350347069 £76 50 / $103 94

Series: Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances Methuen Drama

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