This anthology presents six of the best new plays by some of the most exciting American playwrights whose work is currently gaining acclaim. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres as selected by Sarah Benson, artistic director at Soho Rep in New York, and provides a detailed introduction to the plays.
Reflecting this multiplicity of perspectives, the plays in this collection explode the traditional ways of representing black families on the American stage, and create new means to consider the interplay of race, with questions of class, ...
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters.
Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty ...
Medea in the Mirror by José Triana is an extraordinary re-setting of the Medea story in the Cuban revolution of 1959.
... I love you I love Pierre and Marie Curie I love Karl and Jenny Marx I love Sergei Yesenin and Isadora Duncan I love Xu Zhimo and Lu Xiaoman54 I love Wang Gui and Li Xiangxiang55 I love Guo Jing and Huang Rong56 I love Ingrid Bergman ...
The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day.
The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education.
Inez McCormick, Northern Ireland interviewed by Carol K. Mack. Mukhtar Mai, Pakistan interviewed by Susan Yankowitz. Mu Sochua, Cambodia interviewed by Catherine Filloux. Marina Pisklakova-Parker, Russia interviewed by Paula Cizmar.
An essential anthology of five plays originally staged by what the New York Times described as "the most important theater in Europe"—The Royal Court.
Barlow, Judith E. Plays by American Women: The Early Years. Avon Books, 1981. ... “Lynn Nottage on Her Pulitzer Win for Drama: I'm Representing for Women. ... The Mammary Plays: How I Learned to Drive; The Mineola Twins.