This transdisciplinary study expands on theories of theatricality beyond performance studies and into poetry, media technology, translation studies, critical and psychoanalytic theory. Builds upon Antonin Artauds elaboration of the theatre as a plag...More info...
This book was first created as a screenplay. When a theater group in Maryland, USA expressed interest in doing it as a stage play, the author made significant revision to turn it into a play. Converting it into a book of the play meant having the spa...More info...
Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a truthful, contemporary approach to acting. Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational unde...More info...
Acting Heightened Text: The Basics offers a foundational understanding of heightened text in drama, fused with a truthful, contemporary approach to acting.Using detailed text analysis and dynamic rehearsal exercises, actors and stude...More info...
Its 1960 in rural Manitoba, and Oata is about to confide that she may be pregnant when her fiance Yasch lets slip his obsession with skinny Sadie Nickel. Oata is torn--does she still want to hitch her wagon to this fickle dow-nix? Does she have a...More info...
While a forest fire rages out of control in the nearby mountains of southeastern BC, a group of longtime friends gather for an intimate 25th anniversary dinner celebration. When an unexpected gift of 25,000 transforms a discussion about the loca...More info...
Iona is a young woman from Canadas east coast who, like many others, goes west for work. She trains for a career as a heavy equipment operator and finds a place for herself in the tough work environment of the oilfields. That is, until she bec...More info...
Sixteen-year-old Divines only real friends are Jesus and his twelve disciples--until her family joins a new church, and she meets Bien-Aime, Grace, and Sarah, who are eager to ditch the bibles and baptize Divine into the real world of boys, booze...More info...
(Pub. Date: 01-Oct-2025, Other book format, Publisher: New York Review of Books, ISBN-13: 9781681379807)
Three generations of German Jewish family undergo the tumult, upheaval, and brutality of nineteenth- and twentieth-century history in this panoramic and skillfully nuanced family drama, rich with gossip and incident, capturing a Germany now lost to...More info...
Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches to Shakespeares plays and poems....More info...
(Pub. Date: 30-Sep-2025, Hardback, Publisher: Oxford University Press, ISBN-13: 9780198888031)
Shakespeare and Queer Studies offers an accessible, comprehensive, and non-polemical account of queer approaches to Shakespeares plays and poems. Addressing the strategies and stakes of different modes of queer critique, it encourages reade...More info...
This handsome hardback edition presents William Shakespeares classic tragedy, Macbeth, featuring gold cover embossing and gilded page-edges. Often referred to superstitiously as the Scottish play, Macbeth is one of...More info...
The voices of women changing the world one script at a time speak to how screenwriting is more than a craft—it’s activism, education, and revolution.Shaping Global Culture through Screenwriting is a powerful testament to the und...More info...
The streets of Barnsley are full of unheard stories. Through interviews with local people, Helen Monks and Matt Woodhead have adapted glimpses of life in the town into lyrical and revelatory monologues. Calling Barns...More info...
Boys Dont Fight is a rumination on queer longing, unrest, resentment, voyeurism, vulnerability, hopeless love triangles, missed connections, and autonomy, unfurling in lyrical electro-pop songs. This volume collects song lyrics, produ...More info...
Can you be black and not perform? is the question of The Essentialisnt, a conceptual art installation with award-winning writer and performer Eisa Davis singing for her life in a tank of water, or at the piano in a pasture of hair. A transatlantic u...More info...
A composer of languages skewed longings, Jerry Lieblich torques and tickles our grammars, taking these jangly, tangling systems as occasions for probing the political structures through which we participate in our and others demise. This volume coll...More info...
In some rooms hes Martin. In others hes Martín. Hired by a well-funded arts institution on Chicagos Northside to create a show with Chicago youth about violence on the Southside, Marteen finds himself torn not only by the pronunciation of his name,...More info...
Robbie McCauley, Maureen Shea, Alisa Solomon, Elin Diamond, Cynthia Carr, Daniel Alexander Jones, Omi Osun Joni L. Jones, Charlotte Meehan, Ed Montgomery, Carl Hancock Rux...
As a playwright, director, and performer, Robbie McCauley has been an influential presence in the American avant-garde theatre for many decades. In her work, she consistently confronts uncomfortable truths about rac...More info...
By using only the First Folio text, this book acts as an original guide to performing Shakespeares plays. This book is the accumulation of the many Clues from the First Folio of Shakespeares plays (as opposed to any edited version) that help to in...More info...
This book considers how Shakespeare’s theatre investigates and reveals “Being-in-the-world”. Through the lens of phenomenology, the study of how the world shows itself to conscious experience, Johnston examines how Shakespeare’s texts and dramatur...More info...
A wickedly funny new play about Mary Whitehouse and her infamous blasphemy trial against Gay News in the 1970s. Premiered at Nottingham Playhouse in 2025 starring Maxine Peake....More info...
Featuring the work of six playwrights published in English for the first time, this anthology showcases the contemporary playwriting of Uruguay in all its depth, vibrancy and extraordinary range....More info...
This anthology is special: a book of trans plays about trans life as it is actually, materially lived in time and space. - Theatre Survey on Volume 1.The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by...More info...
Iphigenia in Splott is a one-woman play, first seen in 2015, loosely adapted from the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides Iphigenia in Aulis. The title character, Iphigenia (or Effie), finds escape from the harsh reality of her life in...More info...
Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the worlds leading theatre companies, this book collects six of its most impactful plays, together in one volume for the first time....More info...
Marking the 50th anniversary of one of the worlds leading theatre companies, this book collects six of its most impactful plays, together in one volume for the first time....More info...
This anthology is special: a book of trans plays about trans life as it is actually, materially lived in time and space. - Theatre Survey on Volume 1.The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by...More info...
Sex, cake and the quest to be the perfect housewife; Laura Wade explores the idealisation of gender norms in this incisive play, republished in Methuen Dramas Modern Classics series. “A scalpel-wielding dissection of the fetishisa...More info...
Featuring the work of six playwrights published in English for the first time, this anthology showcases the contemporary playwriting of Uruguay in all its depth, vibrancy and extraordinary range....More info...
