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Drama &
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January-June 2020
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Modern Plays
D R A M A – Methuen Drama Modern Plays
Methuen Drama's Modern Plays: A Taste of Honey
60th Anniversary Gift Set 60 Years of Modern Plays
This new limited-edition hardback box set of Shelagh Delaney
seven plays was published to celebrate the 60th Written by Shelagh Delaney when she was 19,
Anniversary of the Modern Plays series and features A Taste of Honey is one of the great defining
a play from each decade from 1959 to 2019. and taboo-breaking plays of the 1950s. When
Chosen by public vote, the collection includes her mother, Helen, runs off with a car salesman,
A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney, Saved by feisty teenager Jo takes up with a black sailor who
Edward Bond, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil by promises to marry her before he heads for the seas, leaving her
John McGrath, Top Girls by Caryl Churchill, Blasted by Sarah Kane, pregnant and alone.
Elmina's Kitchen by Kwame Kwei-Armah and This House by James
Graham. This specially commissioned hardback edition was published to
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series, which
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 824 pages launched with A Taste of Honey in 1959 and features a new foreword
HB Pack 9781350136663 • £80.00 / $135.00 by Celia Brayfield.
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
World English
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 112 pages
HB 9781350134959 • £12.99 / $17.95
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Saved The Cheviot, the Stag and the
60 Years of Modern Plays Black, Black Oil
Edward Bond 60 Years of Modern Plays
Saved is a play set in London in the sixties and John McGrath
reflects a time of social change. Its subject is the
John McGrath's winding, furious, innovative play
cultural poverty and frustration of a generation of
tracks the economic history and exploitation of
young people on the dole and living on council
the Scottish Highlands from the post-Rebellion
estates. With its scenes of violence, including the
suppression of the clans to the story of the Clearances: in the 19th
stoning of a baby in its pram, Saved became a notorious play and a
century, aristocratic landowners discovered the profitability of sheep
cause célèbre.
farming, and forced a mass emigration of rural Highlanders, burning
This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the their houses in order to make way for the Cheviot sheep.
public as the most representative play of the 1960s and published to
This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series, with a
public as the most representative play of the 1970s and published to
foreword by Simon Stephens.
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with a
new foreword by Kate McGrath.
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 160 pages
HB 9781350134430 • £12.99 / $17.95
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 104 pages
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Top Girls Blasted
60 Years of Modern Plays 60 Years of Modern Plays
Caryl Churchill Sarah Kane
Set in the early Thatcher years, Top Girls is a seminal In 1995 Sarah Kane's first full-length play Blasted
play of the modern theatre, revealing a world of sent shockwaves throughout the theatrical world.
women's experience at a pivotal moment in British Making front-page headlines, the play outraged
history. Told by an eclectic group of historical and critics with its depiction of rape, torture and
modern characters in a continuous conversation violence in civil war. However, from being roundly
across ages and generations it was described by The Guardian as ‘the condemned by the critics the play is now considered a seminal work
best British play ever from a woman dramatist’. of European theatre and has defined an entire era of stage writing.
This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the
public as the most representative play of the 1980s and published to public as the most representative play of the 1990s and published to
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with a celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with a
foreword by Ann McFerran. new foreword by Mel Kenyon.
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 120 pages UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 80 pages
HB 9781350134911 • £12.99 / $17.95 HB 9781350135024 • £12.99 / $17.95
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Elmina's Kitchen This House
60 Years of Modern Plays 60 Years of Modern Plays
Kwame Kwei-Armah James Graham
On Hackney’s Murder Mile, Deli is trying to make Britain’s most prominent political dramatist James
a living as an honest man and revive the fortunes Graham achieved the impossible in bringing the
of his mother's West Indian takeaway. His son backroom world of MPs, whips and fractured
Ashley has different plans and longs to follow in political parties to the stage. Originally staged at
the footsteps of local gangster Digger. As Deli the National Theatre, This House is a timely and
finds himself and his business pulled further into the world he so relevant political comedy, exploring Westminster and the 1974 hung
desperately wants to leave behind, questions of family and gang parliament.
loyalty begin to rise.
This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the
This specially commissioned hardback edition was selected by the public as the most representative play of the 2010s and published to
public as the most representative play of the 2000s and published to celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with a
celebrate 60 years of Methuen Drama's Modern Plays series with a new foreword by Baroness Ann Taylor.
new foreword by Paterson Joseph.
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 136 pages
UK November 2019 • US November 2019 • 112 pages HB 9781350134836 • £12.99 / $17.95
HB 9781350134874 • £12.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
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Out of Water Sydney & the Old Girl
Zoe Cooper Eugene O'Hare
Claire and her wife Kit have moved from the Nell and Sydney Stock are at war - and it's mutually assured
confines of London to the wide open coasts of destruction. After 50 years cooped up in the same shabby East
South Shields. London house where ghosts of a hard life still linger, the points
scored in never ending arguments continue to bind the pair together.
To be nearer family, to be nearer the sea, to put
And then, there is the not so simple matter of the inheritance…As
down roots. To have a baby.
the twisted game between mother and son reaches breaking point,
Claire’s new job at the local school is a step up, and Irish care worker Marion Fee finds herself an unwitting pawn, played
she wants to make a real difference, but she soon discovers that she from both sides. Nell will stop at nothing for her bitter triumph over
has as much to learn from her students as they have from her. Sydney - but he has his own plans.
A tender new play about gender, wild swimming, and how we define
UK October 2019 • US November 2019 • 112 pages
who we are. PB 9781350129986 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350130005
UK April 2019 • US May 2019 • 96 pages Library eBook 9781350129993
PB 9781350129467 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
Individual eBook 9781350129481 World English
Library eBook 9781350129474
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The Weatherman Rutherford and Son
Eugene O'Hare Githa Sowerby
Beezer and O’Rourke live on the fringes of In a northern industrial town, John Rutherford rules
society in a dingy London flat. Despite living life both factory and family with an iron will. But even as
at the bottom of the heap, the savage banter of the furnaces burn relentlessly at the Glassworks, at
their dysfunctional friendship keeps them afloat. home his children begin to turn against him.
When their dodgy landlord, Dollar, makes them
Githa Sowerby’s astonishing play was inspired by
a ‘business’ proposition, O’Rourke finds himself
her own experience of growing up in a family-run
selling out for the cost of a few months’ rent. The price? Take care
factory in Gateshead. Writing in 1912, when female voices were
of a mystery special package. Just for a few months. Easy job. Easy
seldom heard on British stages, she now claims her place alongside
money. As the weight of a heavy conscience becomes too much to
Ibsen and Bernard Shaw with this searing depiction of class, gender
bear, the outlook for tomorrow becomes increasingly dark, with a
and generational warfare.
storm brewing on the horizon.
UK May 2019 • US June 2019 • 112 pages
UK August 2019 • US September 2019 • 104 pages PB 9781350132771 • £10.99 / $14.95
PB 9781350130029 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350132795
Individual eBook 9781350130043 Library eBook 9781350132788
Library eBook 9781350130036 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama
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Tom Jones Haughey/Gregory
Ross Ericson Colin Murphy
Tom Jones follows the adventures of a young A housing crisis, a hung Dáil and an unlikely
man of illegitimate birth through a tale of love, alliance.
deception and mistaken identity in the simple
Haughey/Gregory follows the deal made between
manner of the West Country tale with all the high
Tony Gregory and Charles Haughey in 1982, when
French and Italian seasoning of sex and vice.
Gregory took a surprise Dáil seat and suddenly
Will he gain his darling Sophia's hand? Will he found himself holding the balance of power.
escape the hangman's noose? Will he ever learn to keep it in his
Dublin is devastated by unemployment and addiction and the
trousers…?
planners’ solution is simply to bulldoze it. But the election results in
Often referred to as the first English novel, this cunning stage version the novice TD, Tony Gregory holding the balance of power.
of Henry Fielding's comedy tells the escapades and exploits of the
Can Gregory use his vote to achieve something for his constituents?
infamous protagonist through an accessible and highly entertaining
He will have to face off against the dominant personality of Irish
adaptation.
politics - Charles J Haughey.
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 104 pages
UK April 2019 • US May 2019 • 104 pages
PB 9781350133679 • £10.99 / $14.95
PB 9781350135338 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350133693
Individual eBook 9781350135352
Library eBook 9781350133686
Library eBook 9781350135345
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Black Teeth and a Brilliant Smile Crooked Dances
Adelle Stripe Robin French
Adapted by Lisa Holdsworth Journalist Katy is desperate for her big break, and
The Beacon, Buttershaw 1990. Andrea Dunbar, an interview in Paris with world famous concert
acclaimed writer of Rita, Sue, and Bob Too, mum, pianist Silvia de Zingaro looks like just her chance.
sister, best friend, is struggling with her latest work. But the odds are against her. After a disastrous
Her aching head is full of voices, stories from her interview, Katy feels certain there's a bigger story
past which have to be heard… there than meets the eye. She hunts for clues,
finding Silvia has a collection of mystical books and an apparent
A bittersweet tale of the north/south divide, it reveals how a shy fixation with composer Erik Satie. Just as Katy's hope begins to fade,
teenage girl defied the circumstances into which she was born and a mysterious night-time encounter with the pianist gives her the
went on to become one of her generation's greatest dramatists. scoop she needs.
UK May 2019 • US June 2019 • 80 pages This play examines music, time and attention in our modern digital
PB 9781350135925 • £10.99 / $14.95 age.
Individual eBook 9781350135949
Library eBook 9781350135932
UK June 2019 • US July 2019 • 96 pages
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PB 9781350136496 • £10.99 / $14.95
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Individual eBook 9781350136519
Library eBook 9781350136502
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Armadillo Cash Cow
Sarah Kosar Oli Forsyth
Bullets are not sexy. They are not sexy. Creating a tennis champion costs a lot; it requires
time, dedication and, most importantly, cash. Nina
Armadillo – little armoured one. [Spanish]
and Ade decide early on that their daughter is
A teenage girl disappears from a small town in worth the investment. Imagine the return - prize
America where fifteen years earlier, another teenage money, world travel, endorsements and maybe their
girl was kidnapped. Now a woman, she watches the own tennis academy.
news. She reaches for her gun. She holds it close.
Hell-bent on their child becoming Britain’s number 1, the pair are
Sarah Kosar's new play is about the dangerous ways we make willing to sacrifice just about anything. If you want to reach the top
ourselves feel safe. spot in the game of tennis, love means nothing…
UK May 2019 • US June 2019 • 96 pages
Oli Forsyth’s breakthrough play is a blistering exploration of blind,
PB 9781350138155 • £10.99 / $14.95 parental ambition and the consequences of tough love.
Individual eBook 9781350138179
Library eBook 9781350138162
UK June 2019 • US July 2019 • 96 pages
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PB 9781350138230 • £10.99 / $14.95
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Individual eBook 9781350138254
Library eBook 9781350138247
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Radio On the Other Hand, We're
Al Smith Happy
Lying there, drifting up into those ancient lights was Daf James
exactly like looking into the past. It is looking into
A single dad meets his adopted daughter for the
the past. History, I think, is just a property of light.
first time. Then he agrees to meet her birth-mother.
Charlie Fairbanks was born in the dead center of the
When their two worlds collide, will what they have
United States at the dead center of the twentieth
in common outweigh their differences?
century.
A one-off meeting. But three lives will be changed forever.
Americans are going to the Moon and Charlie’s sure he’ll be the first
one there. But as he shines his spotlight on the Moon, so too does it One the Other Hand, We're Happy is a tender, funny, hopeful play
illuminate the darker side to his nation’s history. about being a mum when your name is Dad.
Radio is a story about memory, love and spaceships. UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 96 pages
PB 9781350141452 • £10.99 / $14.95
UK June 2019 • US July 2019 • 64 pages Individual eBook 9781350141476
PB 9781350138384 • £10.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781350141469
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When I Fall ... If I Fall Baby Reindeer
Claire Dowie Richard Gadd
Leaping barriers of age, sexuality and gender, I looked at her, wanting her to laugh. Wanting her
Gloria prepares to dance the Can Can one last time. to share in the joke. But she didn’t. She just stared.
I knew then, in that moment – that she had taken it
Written and performed by the pioneering Claire
literally...
Dowie, When I Fall ... If I Fall tells Gloria’s story, a
story about growing up feeling different and not Edinburgh Comedy Award winner Richard Gadd has
fitting in... a chilling story to tell about obsession, delusion and
the terrifying ramifications of a fleeting mistake.
UK July 2019 • US July 2019 • 48 pages
PB 9781350141667 • £10.99 / $14.95 This powerful and engaging monologue play portrays a man brought
Individual eBook 9781350141674 to the edge by the actions of a chance encounter which takes a toll
Library eBook 9781350141681 on all aspects of his life.
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UK July 2019 • US August 2019 • 96 pages
PB 9781350143425 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350143449
Library eBook 9781350143432
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Under Three Moons Stiletto Beach
Daniel Kanaber Sadie Hasler
Spanning half a lifetime, Under Three Moons takes place on three Best mates Leanne and Kelly have lived in
nights across three decades of two friends’ lives. From a school trip Southend-on-Sea their whole lives. Larger than
to France as teenagers, to a surf shack in their twenties, to Christmas life Leanne is happy staying put, but Kelly secretly
in their thirties, Mike and Paul meet up and talk into the night. From dreams of escaping her dull job and seeing the
boyhood to manhood to fatherhood, these are the nights they share. world.
This sharp two-hander concerns society’s shifting view of male When out-of-towner journalist Helen can’t afford
identity, how we’ve gone from talk of ‘lad culture’ to the ‘metro- Leigh-on-Sea so moves in next door instead, events take a surprising
sexual’ and now ‘toxic masculinity’. turn. As Leanne and Kelly take her under their wing, an unexpected
friendship blooms in Spoons, and Helen soon has them reconsidering
UK September 2019 • US October 2019 • 64 pages what it means to celebrate where you’re from.
PB 9781350147225 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350147249
Library eBook 9781350147232 UK September 2019 • US September 2019 • 104 pages
Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama PB 9781350149670 • £10.99 / $14.95
World English Individual eBook 9781350149694
Library eBook 9781350149687
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Does My Bomb Look Big in This? The Kids Are Alt Right
Nyla Levy Martin Travers
Yasmin Sheikh feels torn in the city she used to call Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories.
home, but Aisha sees a different London to her best One ideology tears them apart.
friend. When Yasmin suddenly disappears to Syria,
This is an unflinching exploration of how young
Aisha embarks on a mission to uncover the truth
people today are prey to a range of extreme
and decide whether there is any hope in Yasmin’s
ideologies and how helpless people in their real
new-found world.
lives are to stop them imploding.
With fierce wit and disarming honesty, Does My Bomb Look Big
The Kids Are Alt Right is a cautionary tale of how social media and
in This? cleverly unveils a human story behind the headlines and
YouTube content can lead to actions and consequences that can
questions how close or far we are from multicultural harmony.
never be undone.
UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 112 pages
UK August 2019 • US August 2019 • 56 pages
PB 9781350134607 • £10.99 / $14.95
PB 9781350140523 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350134621
Individual eBook 9781350140530
Library eBook 9781350134614
Library eBook 9781350140547
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Series Editors: Chris Megson, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK and Jenny Stevens, educational consultant, teacher and writer
Pomona Wasted
Alistair McDowall Kate Tempest
Edited by Dan Rebellato, Royal Holloway, Edited by Katie Beswick, University of Exeter, UK
University of London, UK Three old friends in their mid-twenties. One
Ollie’s sister is missing. Searching Manchester in remarkable day. For Ted, Danny and Charlotte, it’s
desperation, she finds all roads lead to Pomona - an time to seize control. Make a difference. Change
abandoned concrete island at the heart of the city. things. This is it.
Here at the centre of everything, journeys end and A day trip through the parks and raves and cafes of
nightmares are born. South London, where life is what you make it. The rapid fire words of
Kate Tempest paint a picture of lives less ordinary in an unforgiving
Alistair McDowall's sinister play, Pomona, premiered at the Orange
world, sound-tracked by an exhilarating score.
Tree Theatre, London in November 2014. It is published here as a
Student Edition featuring commentary and notes by Dan Rebellato. Wasted premiered in 2012 when it was toured by theatre company
Paines Plough. It is published here as a Student Edition alongside
UK February 2020 • US February 2020 • 144 pages commentary and notes by Katie Beswick.
PB 9781350086715 • £10.99 / $14.95
Individual eBook 9781350086739
Library eBook 9781350086722 UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 96 pages
Series: Student Editions • Methuen Drama PB 9781350094925 • £10.99 / $14.95
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Rotterdam Our Country's Good
Jon Brittain Based on the novel 'The Playmaker' by
Edited by Stephen Farrier, The Royal Central Thomas Keneally
School of Speech and Drama, University of Timberlake Wertenbaker
London, UK
Edited by Sophie Bush, Sheffield Hallam
It’s New Year in Rotterdam, and Alice has finally University, UK
plucked up the courage to email her parents and
tell them she’s gay. But before she can hit send, Australia 1789. A young married lieutenant is
her girlfriend reveals that he has always identified as a man and now directing rehearsals of the first play ever to be staged in that country.
wants to start living as one. Now Alice must face a question she never With only two copies of the text, a cast of convicts, and one leading
thought she’d ask . . . does this mean she's straight? lady who may be about to be hanged, conditions are hardly ideal ...
Rotterdam is published here as a Student Edition, alongside Winner of the Laurence Olivier Play of the Year Award in 1988, Our
commentary and notes ideal for A-Level or undergraduate students Country's Good premiered at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in
by Stephen Farrier. 1988. It is published here as a Student Edition alongside commentary
and notes by Sophie Bush.
"Sweet, heartfelt and funny new play about gender, identity and
love” – Stage UK March 2020 • 160 pages
PB 9781350097889 • £10.99
UK June 2020 • US June 2020 • 160 pages Individual eBook 9781350097902
PB 9781350095182 • £10.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781350097896
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The Methuen Drama Rough Magic Theatre Company
Anthology of American Women New Irish Plays and Adaptations, 2010-
Playwrights: 1970 - 2020 2018
Gun, Spell #7, The Jacksonian, The Hilary Fannin, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Shane
Mac an Bhaird, Morna Regan & Ellen Cranitch
Baltimore Waltz, In the Blood, Intimate
Edited by Patrick Lonergan, National University
Apparel
of Ireland, Galway, Ireland
Edited by Wesley Brown, Professor Emeritus,
Celebrating the work of one of Ireland’s most daring theatre
Rutgers University USA & Aimée K. Michel, Associate Professor
companies, this anthology gathers five plays by established and
of Theater, Bard College at Simon's Rock, USA
emerging playwrights. They include vibrant new adaptations of the
This anthology celebrates the iconoclastic power of seven American world classics Peer Gynt and Phaedra alongside vital new dramas
women playwrights who pushed their work outside the box of that explore issues of urgent contemporary concern, such as sex and
conventional drama. The plays and playwrights featured are: Susan sexuality, emigration and climate change. With contributions from
Yankowitz's Gun; Ntozake Shange's Spell #7; Beth Henley's The Hilary Fannin and Ellen Cranitch, Arthur Riordan, Sonya Kelly, Morna
Jacksonian; Paula Vogel's The Baltimore Waltz; Suzan-Lori Parks's Regan, and Shane Mac an Bhaird, this book is an exciting snapshot of
In the Blood; and Lynn Nottage's Intimate Apparel. The volume contemporary Irish playwriting.
celebrates fifty years of playwrights who have been continuously
working in, and shaping, contemporary American theater. UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 384 pages
PB 9781350119796 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350119789 • £75.00 / $100.00
UK April 2020 • US April 2020 • 576 pages Individual eBook 9781350119819
PB 9781350068728 • £29.99 / $40.95 • HB 9781350068735 • £95.00 / $130.00 Library eBook 9781350119802
Individual eBook 9781350068766 Methuen Drama
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How to Teach a Play The Art of the Artistic Director
Essential Exercises for Popular Plays Conversations with Leading Practitioners
Edited by Miriam Chirico, Eastern Connecticut Christopher Haydon, Artistic Director, Gate
State University, USA & Kelly Younger, Loyola Theatre, London, UK
Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA Christopher Haydon interviews 20 of of the most
This book provides a new generation of teachers prominent and successful artistic directors in the
with the tools to develop their students’ USA and UK, uncovering the essential skills and
performative imagination and illuminate the talents that go into being an accomplished artistic
performative dimension of key scenes from the most-studied director. The only book of its kind, it includes short contextual essays
plays. Written by internationally-renowned drama scholars, it offers outlining the importance and ambitions of each interviewee and
effective teaching methods and classroom exercises for 75 of the a Foreword by Michael Grandage, former Artistic Director of the
most commonly taught plays, ranging from classical drama through Sheffield Crucible and the Donmar Warehouse in London.
to contemporary plays by Tony Kushner, Paula Vogel and Suzan-Lori
Parks. The practical, performance-specific exercises point out the UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 200 pages
PB 9781350016934 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350016927 • £65.00 / $90.00
performance elements or attributes of the specific play, while also Individual eBook 9781350016941
showing how that performance element illuminates the thematic Library eBook 9781350016958
meaning grounded in the play’s script. Methuen Drama
UK January 2020 • US January 2020 • 344 pages
PB 9781350017535 • £24.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781350017528 • £75.00 / $100.00
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Methuen Drama
Immersion and Participation in Sound Effect
Punchdrunk's Theatrical Worlds The Theatre We Hear
Carina E. I. Westling, University of Sussex, UK Ross Brown, Royal Central School of Speech and
Exploring the practice of internationally renowned theatre company Drama, UK
Punchdrunk, this study focuses on the craft of interaction design Sound Effect tells the story of the effect of
through the company's physical and digital scenography for theatrical aurality on modern culture. Beginning
participatory audiences. Based on detailed ethnographies of the with the emergence of the modern scenic sound
making cultures of the company and their live and online audiences, effect in the late 18th century, and ending with
the book introduces the reader to the work of the company and the headphone theatre which brings theatre’s auditorium into an intimate
theoretical and historical frameworks of their work. Featuring analysis relationship with the audience’s internal sonic space, the book relates
of key productions, including Sleep No More and The Drowned Man, contemporary questions of theatre sound design to a 250-year
it considers the structure of Punchdrunk’s work across the interface, Western cultural history of hearing. It focuses on sound in popular
the cultures within the company, and audience responses within the culture – ranging from pantomimes to popular radio theatre, to
performance space. comedy, novelty sound effects and pop music – arguing that these
have exerted a major influence on contemporary theatre.
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Music Fundamentals for Musical Introduction to the Alexander
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Christine Riley, Marymount Manhattan College, A Practical Guide for Actors
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Bill Connington, Yale School of Drama, USA
This book offers a series of lessons in music
The Alexander Technique has been a vital part of
fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and
training for performers since the early 20th century.
aural tests, giving readers the skills to navigate
Introduction to the Alexander Technique: A Practical
music without having had a formal training.
Guide for Actors addresses the student’s self as a whole. Including
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Questors, Jesters and Live Art in the UK
Renegades Contemporary Performances of Precarity
The Story of Britain's Amateur Theatre Edited by Maria Chatzichristodoulou, University
Michael Coveney of Hull, UK
Since entering the performance lexicon in the
The first account of its kind, this book by theatre
1970s, the term Live Art has been used to describe
critic Michael Coveney looks at the rich history of
a diverse but interrelated array of performance
amateur theatre in the UK. He explores the major
practices and approaches.This volume offers a
companies and venues that developed in this time, including The
contextual and critical introduction to the scene of contemporary
Little Theatre in Bolton, Ian McKellen's first theatre; Lincolnshire's
Live Art in Britain. Focusing on the key artists, companies and
Broadbent Theatre, started by Jim Broadbent's father and other
organisations with a prolific body of work and which have been vital
conscientious objectors at the end of World War II; and Crayford's
to the development of contemporary practice, this edited volume
Geoffrey Whitworth Theatre, where the careers of Michael Gambon
maps the landscape, illuminating the origins, concerns and aesthetics
and Diana Quick were launched. We see amateur theatre as the
of Live Art in the UK today.
bedrock of our national theatre and a fascinating barometer of our
times.
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Rethinking the Actor's Body Screen Acting Skills
Dialogues with Neuroscience A Practical Handbook for Students and
Dick McCaw, Royal Holloway, University of London, UK Tutors
How do actors embody character? How do they use their bodies Roger Wooster, Independent Scholar, UK & Paul
as instruments of expression? Rethinking the Actor's Body offers Conway, Independent Scholar, UK
an accessible introduction to the fields of neurophysiology and Screen Acting Skills is a handbook of practical
embodied knowledge through a detailed examination of what an screen acting exercises aimed at those working with
actor does with their body. Built on almost a decade of conversations training actors, as well as students seeking clear,
and public seminars in partnership with John Rothwell (Professor practical exercises to aid them in their study. The book addresses
of Neurophysiology at University College London, UK), this book the fact that many screen actors beginning their careers lack the
overlaps in research and practice in the fields of actor training, necessary pre-shoot preparation and knowledge of studio protocols
embodied knowledge and neurophysiology. that are required of them, and offers practical, focussed exercises that
can be explored in low-tech workshop situations.
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Performer Training Reconfigured Exploring Television Acting
Post-Psychophysical Perspectives for the Edited by Tom Cantrell, University of
Twenty-First Century Westminster, UK & Christopher Hogg, Sheffield
Hallam University, UK
Frank Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta
This is the first book to bring together scholarly and
Performer Training Reconfigured rethinks practitioner perspectives on acting for television.
the phenomenon of training for theatre and In 15 new essays by internationally distinguished
performance in the light of 21st-century researchers and actor-trainers, and the most exciting
developments, technologies and conditions. early-career scholars, this collection analyses the acting processes
Stemming from the author's extensive practice and incorporating and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television
a review of current practices and theories, it advances different actors such as Hugh Bonneville, Viola Davis, Philip Glenister, Hugh
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Applied Theatre: Women and Alternative Comedy
the Criminal Justice System 1979 and the Reinvention of British
Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University Stand-Up
London, UK Oliver Double, University of Kent, UK
This book provides the first sustained critical This book draws on a wealth of archive material
enquiry into applied theatre practice with women – including unpublished recordings of early
affected by the criminal justice system. Drawing performances – and new interviews with key figures
on a range of international case studies, interviews such as Alexei Sayle, Andy de la Tour and Jim
with practitioners and participants and original documentation from Barclay, to provide a detailed history of the alternative comedy scene
applied theatre projects, the book articulates new understanding in Britain since the late 1970s, and an examination of the distinctive
about the cultural representations of women who offend, how modes of performance style which developed. It traces the influence
government policy inscribes social, economic and political values of American stand-ups and the significance of the opening of the
upon these bodies and how applied theatre practice negotiates ideas Comedy Store in 1979, but it also looks at smaller venues and less
of identity, agency, authority and representation. celebrated acts before assessing alternative comedy’s legacy today.
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The Choreopolitics of Alain Performance, Medicine and the
Platel's les ballets C de la B Human
Emotions, Gestures, Politics Alex Mermikides, Guildhall School of Music &
Drama, London, UK
Edited by Christel Stalpaert, Ghent University,
Belgium, Guy Cools, Dance Dramaturg and This book explores parallels between two ancient
Affiliated Researcher, Research Centre S:PAM human practices: performance on the one hand,
(Studies in Performing Arts & Media), Ghent and medicine on the other. Its rationale is that
University, Belgium & Hildegard De Vuyst, performance and medicine share a number of
Dramaturg Les Ballets C de la B, Belgium concerns including questions of corporeality, subjectivity, identity and
embodiment; and both individual and social responses to health,
Les Ballets C de la B was founded by Alain Platel in 1984 and has
illness and the advances of biomedical knowledge and technologies.
gone on to enjoy great success internationally. Platel’s motto, ‘This
Above all, though, performance and medicine share an engagement
dance is for the world and the world is for everyone', reveals a
with the human, at a time when the ‘concept of the human’ is
deep social and political commitment. Through the three topics of
‘exploded’ (Braidotti, 2013).The study is illustrated with first-hand
emotions, gestures and politics, contributors in this volume for the
accounts of hospital wards, operating theatre, laboratories, rehearsal
first time unravel the choreopolitics of Platel’s Les Ballets C de la B.
rooms, theatre auditoria and stages.
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Critical Companion to Native The Drama and Theatre of Sarah
American and First Nations Ruhl
Theatre and Performance Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul,
Minnesota, USA
Indigenous Spaces
This study provides a clear and accessible analysis
Jaye T. Darby, University of California, Los of Sarah Ruhl's oeuvre, giving readers an experience
Angeles, USA, Courtney Elkin Mohler, Jordan of her plays, not just an explanation of them.
College of the Arts at Butler University in Through a finely-grained, dimensional account of
Indianapolis, USA & Christy Stanlake, United States Naval each play, readers are immersed in Ruhl’s unique idiom; in themes
Academy, USA of love and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in
The first major survey book to introduce Native artists, plays and inventive stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage. Enriched
theatres within their cultural, aesthetic, spiritual, and socio-political by engaging essays by three scholars, a roundtable discussion with
contexts. Spanning the 1920s to the present, it then provides an female directors of her generation, this is a companionable guide for
overview of Native plays and theatre artists from across the century. students of American literature and theatre studies.
Finally, it points forward to the ways in which Native American and First
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George Farquhar
The Theatre of Christopher A Migrant Life Reversed
Durang David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK
Miriam Chirico, Eastern Connecticut State "This captivating biography, full of previously
University, USA undiscovered material, tells the story of
The Theatre of Christopher Durang documents and Restoration playwright George Farquhar
analyses the major plays and productions of one of (1677–1707) in reverse: from his death in
America’s significant contemporary playwrights who poverty, through the success of The Beaux
has contributed much to the American stage by his Stratagem and A Recruiting Officer, and ending with his birth in
provocative works. It covers both his full-length and one-act plays, Londonderry. Essential reading not only for those interested in
from his early success of Sister Mary Ignatius Explains it All For You Farquhar or 18th-century theatre, but also in the literature of the
(1974) to his most recent Tony-Award winning play, Vanya and Sonia dispossessed, it is the first study to combine elegant readings of
and Masha and Spike (2012). This book, the first to provide an in- Farquhar’s plays with migrancy criticism. Farquhar, it shows, was
depth analysis of his plays, examines Durang’s use of specific comedic more modern than any other writer of the period." Tiffany Stern,
genres as the means to explore American social malaise. The Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK
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Methuen Drama Engage
Series Editors: Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, USA and Mark
Fiery Temporalities in Theatre
Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK
Performing the Unstageable and Performance
Success, Imagination, Failure The Initiation of History
Karen Quigley, University of York, UK Maurya Wickstrom, City University of New York,
USA
From the gouging out of eyes in Shakespeare’s
King Lear or Sarah Kane’s Blasted to the adaptation "In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly
of Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials trilogy, against death, against tragedy, against the
theatre has long been intrigued by the staging of closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom
challenging plays and impossible texts, images or designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive
ideas. Performing the Unstageable examines this phenomenon of force of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything,
what the theatre cannot do or has not been able to do at various that is not mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for
points in its history. something, for something before the end, for revolution, perhaps.
Its bold claims are sustained through illuminating attention to
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& Stephen Farrier, The Royal Central School of & Stephen Farrier, The Royal Central School of
Speech and Drama, University of London, UK Speech and Drama, University of London, UK
An anthology of critical engagements with The chapters in the book not only examine drag
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Staging America The Methuen Drama
Twenty-First-Century Dramatists Handbook of Performance and
Christopher Bigsby, University of East Anglia, UK Interculturalism
A new generation of playwrights, whose careers Edited by Daphne P. Lei, University of California,
began in this century, has emerged, and done so Irvine, USA & Charlotte McIvor, National
when American theatre and society was changing. University of Ireland, Galway
Capturing the cultural shifts of 21st-century
This handbook provides a clear guide to research
America, Staging America explores the lives and
in the hotly contested and evolving field of
works of 8 award-winning playwrights – including Ayad Akhtar,
performance and interculturalism. It explores ground-breaking
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new directions and critical discourse in the field of intercultural
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theatre and performance while surveying key debates concerning
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interculturalism as an aesthetic and ethical series of encounters in
playwright and provides an overview of their career, a description and
theatre and performance from the 1960s onwards. The handbook’s
critical evaluation of their work, as well as a sense of their reception.
global coverage challenges understandings of intercultural theatre
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The Methuen Drama Companion
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A Cultural History of Theatre in A Cultural History of Theatre in
Antiquity the Middle Ages
Edited by Martin Revermann, University of Edited by Jody Enders, University of California,
Toronto at Mississauga, Canada Santa Barbara, USA
A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity provides A Cultural History of Theatre in the Middle Ages
a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary
of the cultural history of theatre in Graeco-Roman overview of the cultural history of theatre between
antiquity. Drawing together contributions from 500 and 1500. Drawing together contributions
leading scholars, this volume examines the Greek and Roman cultural from leading scholars, this volume imaginatively pieces together the
spheres in conjunction. Each chapter takes a different theme as its puzzle of medieval theatre. Each chapter takes a different theme as
focus, including institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality its focus, including institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality
and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations; and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations;
communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of
performance, and knowledge transmission: media and memory. performance, and knowledge transmission: media and memory.
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the Early Modern Age the Age of Enlightenment
Edited by Robert Henke, Washington University, Edited by Mechele Leon, University of Kansas,
St. Louis, USA USA
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Early Modern A Cultural History of Theatre in Age of
Age provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary Enlightenment provides a comprehensive and
overview of the cultural history of theatre from interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history
1400 to 1650. Drawing together contributions of theatre in the 18th century. Drawing together
from leading scholars, the volume examines the socio-economically contributions from leading scholars, this volume examines the
heterodox nature of theatre and performance during this period. Each intersection of theatre and revolution during this period. Each chapter
chapter takes a different theme as its focus, including institutional takes a different theme as its focus, including institutional frameworks;
frameworks; social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre;
of theatre; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and
repertoire and genres; technologies of performance, and knowledge genres; technologies of performance, and knowledge transmission:
transmission: media and memory. media and memory.
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A Cultural History of Theatre in A Cultural History of Theatre in
the Age of Empire the Modern Age
Edited by Peter W. Marx, University of Cologne, Edited by Kim Solga, Western University, Canada
Germany A Cultural History of Theatre in the Modern Age
A Cultural History of Theatre in the Age of Empire provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary
provides a comprehensive and interdisciplinary overview of the cultural history of theatre from
overview of the cultural history of theatre from 1920 to 2000. Drawing together contributions
1800-1920. Drawing together contributions from from leading scholars, this volume examines the
leading scholars, this volume examines the development of both various possibilities of meaning of the term 'modern' and the identity
empire and nation in relation to the world of theatre. Each chapter of modernist theatre. Each chapter takes a different theme as its
takes a different theme as its focus, including institutional frameworks; focus, including institutional frameworks; social functions; sexuality
social functions; sexuality and gender; the environment of theatre; and gender; the environment of theatre; circulation; interpretations;
circulation; interpretations; communities of production; repertoire and communities of production; repertoire and genres; technologies of
genres; technologies of performance, and knowledge transmission: performance, and knowledge transmission: media and memory.
media and memory.
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