Methuen Drama imprint: 1030 books
Applied Theatre: Resettlement
Drama, Refugees and Resilience
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
The book offers a compelling combination of analyis and detailed description of aesthetic projects with young refugee arrivals in Australia. In it the authors present a framework that contextualises the intersections of refugee studies, resilience and trauma, and theatre and arts-based practice, setting...
by Patrick Lonergan, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2019
Drawing on major new archival discoveries and recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an innovative account of Irish drama and theatre, spanning the past seventy years. Rather than offering a linear narrative, the volume traces key themes to illustrate the relationship between theatre and changes...
The Contemporary Political Play
Rethinking Dramaturgical Structure
Language: English
Release Date: March 23, 2017
What does it mean for a play to be political in the 21st century? Does it require explicit engagement with events and situations with the aim of bringing about change or highlighting social wrongs? Is it purely a matter of content or is it also a matter of structure?
The Contemporary Political...
Disability Theatre and Modern Drama
Recasting Modernism
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2016
Bertolt Brecht's silent Kattrin in Mother Courage, or the disability performance lessons of his Peachum in The Threepenny Opera; Tennessee Williams' limping Laura Wingfield in The Glass Menagerie and hard-of-hearing Bodey in A Lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur; Samuel Beckett's blind Hamm and his physically...
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Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2018
This volume responds to a renewed focus on tragedy in theatre and literary studies to explore conceptions of tragedy in the dramatic work of seventeen canonical American playwrights. For students of American literature and theatre studies, the assembled essays offer a clear framework for exploring...
The Hidden Plot
Notes on Theatre and the State
Language: English
Release Date: January 3, 2014
An important, urgent book of essays from Britain's most challenging dramatist: "...a great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the greatest living English playwright." (The Independent)
This collection of passionate and polemical essays deals with drama...
Rebel Women
Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today
Language: English
Release Date: July 4, 2014
A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama
Ancient
Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female
characters who stand in opposition to the patriarchal structures that
seek to limit and define...
Bond Plays: 8
Born; People; Chair; Existence; The Under Room
Language: English
Release Date: October 28, 2013
Edward Bond Plays:8 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding, and Early Morning. The volume comprises five new plays and two prose essays:
Two Cups: introductory essay
Born: the third play in the Colline Tetralogy (the first...
Modern Catalan Plays
The Quarrelsome Party; The Audition; Desire; Fourplay
Language: English
Release Date: January 14, 2016
Four plays from the rich theatrical world of Catalan drama.
Since the early 1990s, Catalonia has proven to the world that its rich heritage and artistic tradition are worthy of focus and study. The plays in the volume reflect the post-Franco era during which Barcelona and other parts of Catalonia...
Beat Drama
Playwrights and Performances of the 'Howl’ Generation
Language: English
Release Date: July 28, 2016
Readers and acolytes of the vital early 1950s-mid 1960s writers known as the Beat Generation tend to be familiar with the prose and poetry by the seminal authors of this period: Jack Kerouac, Gregory Corso, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Diane Di Prima, and many others. Yet all of these authors, as well as...
by Dr. Rebecca D'Monte
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 26, 2015
British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has been subject to radical re-evaluation with plays from the period setting theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again; this book explains why, presenting a comprehensive survey of the theatre and how it shaped the work that followed.
Rebecca...
Bond Plays: 10
Dea; The Testament of this Day; The Price of One; The Angry Roads; The Hungry Bowl
Language: English
Release Date: January 11, 2018
Bond Plays: 10 brings together recent work by the writer of the classic stage plays Saved, Lear, The Pope's Wedding and Early Morning. The volume comprises four previously unpublished plays, one previously published play and a comprehensive introduction by the author.
Dea, a heroine, has committed...
by Prof. Toby Zinman
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: November 20, 2014
Replay: Classic Modern Drama Reimagined spans over a century of great theatre to explore how iconic plays have been adapted and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the contemporary zeitgeist.
Starting with A Doll's House, Ibsen's much-reprised masterpiece of marital relations from...
Storey Plays: 3
Changing Room; Cromwell; Life Class
Language: English
Release Date: November 17, 2016
The latest collection of David Storey's plays; including the newly revised and revived The Changing Room. Introduced by the author
This third volume of David Storey's plays contains The Changing Room (Royal Court 1971): "If The Changing Room is Storey's most powerful drama, it is because...