Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: These are the plays we wish we had.
The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties.
Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection supports the expanding landscape of contemporary American trans theatre, which represents a variety of performance modes and genres.
These plays address themes such as coming of age, parents and family (found and biological), athletics, dating , and navigating hostile political and social terrains. This third volume also includes short introductory essays that accompany each of the plays to support a deeper understanding of the work.
The Interrobangers by M. Sloth Levine Magic Girl!... And Her Demons by Charlotte Snow t4t by Jessica Scott The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas The More The Man by Jameson P. Murray Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris Caeneus by Samuel Achilles Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña Tides by Eliana Rubin
Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.
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The third anthology of Trans plays from Methuen Drama, curated via an open submission policy, supporting vital trans voices in theatre, featuring plays with nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.
Acknowledgements
Licensing
Play Synopses
Biographies
Introduction by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller
Part 1: Exploring the Dark Places
"Notes on Playing (with Monsters) in the Fog: Mysteries of Queer Adolescence
in M Sloth Levines The Interrobangers" by Jo Michael Rezes
The Interrobangers by M Sloth Levine
Faustian Utopia: Jouissance and Cruel Optimism in Charlotte Snows Magic
Girl by kt shorb
Magic Girl!...and Her Demons by Charlotte Snow
Bickering with the Bad and Banal: Staging t4t Interregnums by Ryan
Adelsheim
t4t by Jess Scott
Part 2: Dance Break
Nations Made of Stars: An Introduction to The Brunch Crowd by Dillon
Yruegas by Sebastián Eddowes-Vargas
The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas
"I was lucky I wasn't born a man: New Orleans Second Line Parades and
Transitions in The More the Man by Eric M. Glover
The More the Man by Jameson P. Murray
Man, Moon, and the Lorde by Stephanie Hsu
Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris
Part 3: Waves and Water
(Extra)ordinary Heroics in Samuel Achilles Edwards Staging of Trans
Antiquity by Caitlin A. Kane
Caeneus by Samuel Achilles
The Ruhls of Play: Mythical and Real Currents in Tyler Rocio Ecoñas
Unfair Advantage by Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz
Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña
What We Leave & What We Carry in Eliana Rubins Tides by Fig Lefevre
Tides by Eliana Rubin
Leanna Keyes is a multi-hyphenate theatre artist and producer with a primary focus on queer and trans people. She aims to authentically portray the full complexities of queer life (past, present, and future).
Lindsey Mantoan is the Ronni Lacroute Chair in Theatre Arts and an Associate Professor at Linfield University. Her current research focuses on contemporary musical theater. She is the author or co-editor of seven books, an intimacy director, a director, and a dramaturg.
Angela Farr Schiller is an Emmy® Awardwinning director, a multiple award-winning dramaturg, scholar, and professor at the Boston Conservatory at Berklee. Additionally, Angela works as a Dramaturg-in-Residence with the Atlanta-based Working Title Playwrights (WTP), the leading new play development organization in the Southeast, United States.
