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www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1 Letter from the Editors ors dit Award-winning Publishing from E Bloomsbury Drama the Incorporating Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare Welcome to the new Bloomsbury Drama & Performance Studies catalogue, including Methuen Drama and The Arden Shakespeare. As part of the Academic & Professional Division at Bloomsbury, we are proud to have picked up the Bookseller Industry Award for Academic,

from Educational & Professional publisher of the year for the second year running.

From The Bookseller: From a shortlist displaying an abundance of energy and innovation, the judges’ winner stands apart 'for the scale and range of its ambition’ … By delving deep into its rich archives of content, it has driven the legacy of publishing at its disposal into exciting new realms. The judges said, 'It leads from the front in re-imagining the way content can be used and sold'. etter Digital Highlights L Since launch, Drama Online has been shortlisted for three industry awards for digital innovation and won the Stationers' Livery Company Award for Innovation Excellence. Featuring 1000+ plays, 100+ scholarly works, and essential tools like character grids, we are continually adding more content: January 2015 sees the addition of Nick Hern Books as a content partner and 400+ audio files from L.A. Theatre Works. See the inside front cover and www.dramaonlinelibrary.com for more. www.actorsandperformers.com provides advice and contacts for actors and performers at all stages of their careers. And, in collaboration with Faber, The Sonnets by William Shakespeare app contains all 154 poems read by an all-star cast including Patrick Stewart and Stephen Fry. In 2014 we launched Bloomsbury Collections. This eBooks platform delivers instant access to quality research and provides libraries with a flexible way to build their collections across the humanities and social sciences. 4,000 eBook titles will be on the platform by spring 2015, featuring content from Bloomsbury’s latest research publications as well as a 100+ year legacy including Continuum, T&T Clark, Bristol Classical Press, Berg, Hart Publishing and The Arden Shakespeare (excludes the plays, which are available on Drama Online). Sign up for an institutional trial or updates at www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Book Highlights This year Arden publishes several of the acclaimed Great Shakespeareans reference series in paperback, together with revised editions of Much Ado About Nothing (p. 28) and Two Noble Kinsmen (p. 28), as well new close reading guides for undergraduates, Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing (p. 30). In Theatre Studies we are launching new volumes in our innovative new Applied Theatre Series (p. 35), and Methuen Drama Engage series (p. 38). We’re also proud to publish the first English language Brecht biography for twenty years: Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life (p. 39), described by the Literary Review as ‘an astonishing tour de force based on impressive scholarship’. On the Performance list we have a major new text and video resource: Actor Movement (p. 43) three new practical guides in our RADA series on Dramatic Dance, Singing on Stage and Genre (all p. 47) and a new Alexander technique book, Physical Expression on Stage and Screen (p. 45) from US coach, Bill Connington. Finally we are excited to publish the very best new modern plays, including the highly successful Birdland by Simon Stephens (p. 4), Rapture, Blister, Burn by Gina Gionfriddo (p. 11), Dark Vanilla Jungle by Philip Ridley (p. 6) and Kingston 14 by Roy Williams (p. 9).

Who is Bloomsbury Academic? Publishing around 1,200 books each year, with a backlist of 20,000 titles, Bloomsbury’s Academic Division has grown through strategic acquisitions as well as establishing a home-grown list. Continuum, Berg and Bristol Classical Press are now part of the Bloomsbury brand, while Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Fairchild Books (including former AVA titles) remain as imprints under the Bloomsbury umbrella. Bloomsbury is committed to academic excellence, peer-review, the quality of our authors, digital publishing, speed to market and innovation. We hope you enjoy reading our latest catalogue. Jenny Ridout, Editorial Director, Drama [email protected] Margaret Bartley, Publisher, The Arden Shakespeare [email protected] Mark Dudgeon, Senior Commissioning Editor, Theatre Studies [email protected] Anna Brewer, Commissioning Editor, Drama [email protected]

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Modern Plays The Modern Plays series is world famous for containing the work of many of the finest contemporary playwrights. Established in 1959 with the publication of Shelagh Delaney’s A Taste of Honey, it remains a series synonymous with the very best in new writing for the stage.

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A Doll's House A Life of Galileo Henrik Ibsen Bertolt Brecht Translated by Simon Stephens Translated by Mark Ravenhill “Simon Stephens’s agile new version... is quick and... full of A new translation of Brecht's classic play by one of the leading subtle touches.” Observer dramatists of our time, Mark Ravenhill.

UK August 2013 • US October 2013 UK January 2013 • US March 2013 128 pages 96 pages PB 9781472526410 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472507419 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472528247 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472508034 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472524324 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472513984 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

A Taste of Honey Advice for the Young at Heart Shelagh Delaney Roy Williams This comic and poignant play, by a nineteen-year-old working- Set the 2011 London riots in the context of the riots in Notting class Lancashire girl and first produced by Theatre Workshop in Hill, 1958, Advice for the Young at Heart is a brand new play 1958, is now regarded as a modern classic. from Roy Williams.

UK February 2014 • US April 2014 UK September 2013 • US October 2013 96 pages 80 pages PB 9781472583765 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472528032 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472583772 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472531124 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472583789 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472525789 • £9.99 / $15.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Alice's Adventures in Wonderland An August Bank Holiday Lark Lewis Carroll Deborah McAndrew Simon Reade's adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s much-loved An August Bank Holiday Lark follows the stories of a rural fantasy classic Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland is a witty and community in East Lancashire and witnesses their personal brilliantly inventive re-working, which won the TMA Award for transitions from exuberance to touching naivety as they Best Show for Young People. encounter loss with courage and humanity in the midst of World War I. UK November 2013 • US January 2014 64 pages UK February 2014 • US April 2014 PB 9781472572608 • £9.99 / $17.95 104 pages Individual eBook 9781472572639 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472583697 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472572615 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472583703 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472583710 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Ancient Lights Barking in Essex Shelagh Stephenson Clive Exton "An acute and funny writer, Stephenson carves out a In the riotously funny Barking In Essex, the Packers – Essex’s welcome territory that is distinctive, contemporary and lovable, but most dysfunctional family – desperately attempt to theatrical." Independent cover their tracks as their man Algie returns from stir to collect what's owed him. UK November 2000 • US April 2014 112 pages UK September 2013 • US November 2013 PB 9780413760708 • £9.99 / $17.95 104 pages Individual eBook 9781408148327 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472524553 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781408148334 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472534149 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472523150 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 3 Modern Plays

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Best Man Billy the Girl Carmel Winters Katie Hims This bold new play from award-winning playwright Carmel "Every so often, a writer appears on the scene who just takes Winters deals with the near-taboo topics of sex, power and your breath away... [Katie Hims's] work has never failed to parentage within modern relationships. make an impression." Jeremy Mortimer, Executive Producer at

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M UK June 2013 • US August 2013 A sharp, yet gentle, look at a fractured family dealing with a 88 pages lifetime of mistrust. PB 9781472539281 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472539304 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472539298 • £30.00 / $48.00 UK October 2013 • US December 2013 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 96 pages World English PB 9781472568755 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472568748 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472568731 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Birdland Black Jesus Simon Stephens Anders Lustgarten "Stephens nails the mix of lascivious bully and childlike Black Jesus unpicks the political complexities of Zimbabwe innocent in a man living beyond boundaries... Stephens can through the devastating personal journeys of two very certainly craft a line." The Times different people, both scarred by one of Africa's most notorious dictatorships. A piercing play by Simon Stephens that looks at empathy, money and fame. UK October 2013 • US November 2013 64 pages PB 9781472527479 • £8.99 / $15.95 UK April 2014 • US April 2014 Individual eBook 9781472533708 • £8.99 / $13.99 144 pages Library eBook 9781472526526 • £27.00 / $43.00 PB 9781472587671 • £9.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781472587695 • £9.99 / $15.99 World English Library eBook 9781472587688 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Blindsided Blithe Spirit Simon Stephens Noël Coward "The play opens with a scene of highly charged sexual "One of Noël Coward's most inventive comedies." Daily chemistry that shows why Stephens is an award-winning Telegraph writer." Independent A new edition of Coward's classic play published to coincide with A surprising and romantic new play from Olivier award-winning the 2014 new West End revival at the Gielgud Theatre, starring playwright Simon Stephens. Angela Lansbury as Madame Arcati.

UK January 2014 • US March 2014 UK March 2014 • US April 2014 120 pages 128 pages PB 9781472568717 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472589477 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472568700 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472589491 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472568694 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472589484 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Bluebeard Brief Encounter Hattie Naylor Noël Coward Award-winning playwright Hattie Naylor's Bluebeard is a Remembered as one of the most haunting love stories, Noël provocative, intelligently handled exploration of sexually Coward's Brief Encounter is adapted for the stage by Emma Rice motivated violence. in the year marking the 40th anniversary of Coward's death.

UK November 2013 • US December 2013 UK May 2013 • US June 2013 56 pages 72 pages PB 9781472568793 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472505538 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472568786 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472510730 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472568779 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472506153 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

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Brilliant Adventures Burning Monkey

Alistair McDowall Mwnci ar Dan drama Entertaining, epic and fantastical, Brilliant Adventures is a fast Sera Moore Williams paced tale of brotherhood, addiction and breaking the laws of physics. Burning Monkey - a set text on the Welsh GCSE Drama curriculum from September 2013 - tells the story of a teenage couple and their interactions with an older war veteran, trying UK May 2013 • US July 2013 to rebuild his fractured relationship with his daughter. 136 pages PB 9781472507044 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472520494 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472520500 • £30.00 / $48.00 UK July 2013 • US September 2013 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 112 pages World English PB 9781472528391 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472522832 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472521996 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Candide Cannibals Voltaire Rory Mullarkey "An extraordinary piece, one that bulges with bright ideas." Cannibals is a bold and unique play by Manchester playwright, Guardian Rory Mullarkey. It is his first full-length play, written while he was Pearson Playwright in Residence at the Royal Exchange in A modern adaptation of Voltaire's classic story by RSC Writer-in- 2011. Residence, Mark Ravenhill. UK April 2013 • US June 2013 UK August 2013 • US October 2013 80 pages 96 pages PB 9781472524935 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472532947 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472527080 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472522351 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472529466 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472526816 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Can't Forget About You Captain Amazing David Ireland Alistair McDowall "It is cleverly structured through a combination of fresh "A monologue that crackles with invention... This is a terrific wit, sharp observational comedy and subtly nuanced piece of writing – full of crackle, invention and heart." characterisations." Stage Guardian

A hilarious but deeply touching comedy of love in the face of Written by the winner of the Judges Award at the 2011 social and sexual proscription in Northern Ireland. Bruntwood Prize, Captain Amazing is a funny and poignant one- man show that thrusts us into the life of Britain’s only part-time superhero. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 128 pages UK March 2014 • US April 2014 PB 9781472530479 • £9.99 / $17.95 64 pages Individual eBook 9781472531957 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472588227 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472534644 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472588241 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472588234 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Casualties Circles Ross Ericson Rachel De-lahay "Infinitely more intense than anything I've seen on film... A vivid and challenging new play from the 2013 Evening these scenes ring true." Time Out Standard's Most Promising Playwright award-winner, Rachel De-lahay. Ross Ericson’s play Casualties explores how love, friendship and truth are not so certain in the context of war. UK May 2014 • US May 2014 64 pages UK June 2013 • US August 2013 PB 9781472591913 • £9.99 / $17.95 104 pages Individual eBook 9781472591920 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472531841 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472591937 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472524119 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472531162 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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City Love Conservatory Simon Vinnicombe Michael West City Love is an unflinching look at the opposing human needs "West’s writing is remarkable for its restraint. There is no for companionship and self-destruction. Sharp observations showboating, just a consistent employment of language as transform the mundane into the epic in this grim, witty and neat and cutting as a surgical implement." Alan O'Riordan,

odern agonizingly real play that will pierce the heart of anyone who Irish Examiner has ever been in love. M Conservatory is a compelling play about loss and family which shows that happiness is not a necessary condition of UK September 2013 • US November 2013 togetherness. 80 pages PB 9781472534026 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472529503 • £9.99 / $15.99 UK March 2014 • US March 2014 Library eBook 9781472528810 • £30.00 / $48.00 64 pages Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama PB 9781472579713 • £9.99 / $17.95 World English Individual eBook 9781472579720 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472579737 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Coriolanus Dark Vanilla Jungle and other William Shakespeare monologues An abridged version of Shakespeare's Roman play Coriolanus, Philip Ridley first seen at the Donmar Warehouse in 2013. The latest play from Philip Ridley is a beautiful, breath-taking new drama about one girl's craving for family and home, and the UK January 2014 • US March 2014 lengths she will go to achieve them. This edition also features a 120 pages selection of previously unpublished monologues by Philip Ridley PB 9781472576774 • £9.99 / $17.95 alongside the play. Individual eBook 9781472576798 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472576781 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK February 2014 • US March 2014 World English 80 pages PB 9781472523501 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472530837 • £8.99 / $13.99 Library eBook 9781472523204 • £27.00 / $43.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Desolate Heaven Di and Viv and Rose Ailís Ní Ríain Amelia Bullmore Desolate Heaven is a story about two young girls hoping to find A heartwarming look at the enduring, life-long friendship of freedom from home in the trappings of love. three women by the award-winning writer of Mammals.

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Dirty Great Love Story Disgraced Richard Marsh & Katie Bonna Ayad Akhtar Dirty Great Love Story is a funny, romantic story of catastrophe Disgraced by Ayad Akhtar is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for which fuses poetry and prose to ask if a one-night stand can last Drama, 2013. a lifetime? UK May 2013 UK March 2013 • US April 2013 96 pages 64 pages PB 9781472532091 • £9.99 PB 9781472528667 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472531896 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781472532817 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472525468 • £9.99 Library eBook 9781472521958 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK World English

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Ditch Drum Belly

Beth Steel Richard Dormer drama Stark and imperative, but shot through with a sense of warm Drum Belly is a fascinating new play about the Irish mafia in late humanity, Beth Steel's debut play Ditch is a clear-eyed look at 1960s' New York. how we might behave when the conveniences of our civilisation are taken away, and a frightening vision of a future that could UK April 2013 • US June 2013 all too easily be ours. 112 pages PB 9781472513731 • £9.99 / $17.95 UK April 2010 • US March 2014 Individual eBook 9781472508775 • £9.99 / $15.99 112 pages Library eBook 9781472513755 • £30.00 / $48.00 PB 9781408131381 • £9.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408132807 • £9.99 / $15.99 World English Library eBook 9781408198667 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Entertaining Mr Sloane Europa Joe Orton Lutz Hübner, Malgorzata Sikorska-Miszczuk, An anniversary edition of Entertaining Mr Sloane, with a new Tena Štivicic & Steve Waters critical introduction, which offers an opportunity to reappraise Edited by Caroline Jester both Orton’s reputation as a playwright and the status of his play, plus a selection of previously unpublished photographs Ten questions are asked on the theme of Europe as part of from the Orton archive. Europa – a unique collaboration between theatres in the UK, Germany, Poland and Croatia, revealing attitudes towards UK May 2014 • US July 2014 Europe across the continent. 144 pages PB 9781472527974 • £12.99 / $22.95 UK October 2013 • US December 2013 Individual eBook 9781472522054 • £12.99 / $20.99 128 pages Library eBook 9781472532770 • £39.00 / $63.00 PB 9781472527301 • £12.99 / $22.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781472530219 • £12.99 / $20.99 World English Library eBook 9781472531490 • £39.00 / $63.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Even Stillness Breathes Softly Fog Against a Brick Wall Tash Fairbanks & Toby Wharton Brad Birch Stunningly powerful and gritty, Fog is a critically acclaimed play that offers a vivid look at people leaving care, and their From the daily grind to lyrical flights, Even Stillness Breathes struggles with an inadequate system, their families and the Softly Against a Brick Wall is a play full of the allure and danger outside world. of escape. UK September 2013 • US October 2013 UK May 2013 • US July 2013 80 pages 96 pages PB 9781472523488 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472507099 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472523433 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472514707 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472521699 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472508102 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

For Once Hard Feelings Tim Price Doug Lucie A play of interwoven monologues, For Once portrays the A play about Thatcher's Britain from Doug Lucie, 'the rottweiler devastation wrought on a family in the aftermath of a terrible of British Dramatists' (Telegraph). accident. UK June 2013 • US August 2013 UK July 2011 • US May 2013 112 pages 64 pages PB 9781472529046 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781408158722 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472531865 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781408158715 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472531704 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781408164693 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

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Haunted Child Heather Gardner Joe Penhall Robin French His first dramatic work since 2007, Haunted Child marks the Written by successful young writer Robin French, and set in return to the stage of multi-award winning playwright and 1960s Edgbaston, Heather Gardner is a stylish new version of screenwriter Joe Penhall. The play poignantly explores the gulf Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler.

odern between childhood and adulthood and asks disturbing questions about the lure of spiritual release in increasingly difficult times.

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Hidden in the Sand Home James Phillips David Storey Hidden in the Sand is a passionate love story set against the Home is a timeless play that offers a beautiful, compassionate, backdrop of civil war, which asks if love can survive the trauma tragic and darkly funny study of the human mind and a once- of the partition of the lover's homeland. great nation coming to terms with its new place in the world.

UK October 2013 • US November 2013 UK October 2013 • US December 2013 72 pages 112 pages PB 9781472566829 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472528476 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472566836 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472533579 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472566812 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472525154 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Hysteria I Know How I Feel About Eve Terry Johnson Colette Kane Terry Johnson’s hilarious farce explores the meeting of two of A new play from a promising new voice in British theatre, I the 20th century’s most brilliant and original minds: Salvador Know How I Feel About Eve examines the void at the heart of a Dalí and Sigmund Freud. modern marriage.

UK November 1995 • US October 2013 UK January 2013 • US March 2013 112 pages 96 pages PB 9781472557537 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472513212 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472557544 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472510525 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472557551 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472512079 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

If You Don't Let Us Dream, We I'm With the Band Won't Let You Sleep Tim Price Anders Lustgarten An entertaining play with music from critically acclaimed playwright Tim Price. As the financial world issues its shock treatment, what happens when the City’s agenda is taken to its ultimate conclusion? UK August 2013 • US September 2013 88 pages UK February 2013 • US April 2013 PB 9781472533654 • £9.99 / $17.95 88 pages Individual eBook 9781472526885 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472513571 • £9.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781472533753 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472509420 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472512154 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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In Time O' Strife Josephine and I

Joe Corrie Cush Jumbo drama Adapted by Graham McLaren A fantastic debut play by writer/performer Cush Jumbo detailing the life and sounds of Josephine Baker. A powerful re-imagining of Joe Corrie’s neglected classic about a Fife mining community during the General Strike. UK July 2013 • US September 2013 80 pages UK September 2013 • US November 2013 PB 9781472534538 • £9.99 / $17.95 160 pages Individual eBook 9781472528469 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472522436 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472523785 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472530417 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472523747 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Kingston 14 Land of Our Fathers Roy Williams Chris Urch Roy Williams's police-corruption drama set in contemporary Chris Urch's debut play looks at the dramatic two weeks in Kingston, Jamaica, takes place in the aftermath of the murder which a group of Welsh miners are trapped underground. of a British tourist. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 UK March 2014 • US April 2014 136 pages 112 pages PB 9781472523365 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472588265 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472531391 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472588289 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472529497 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472588272 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Little Thing, Big Thing Longing Donal O'Kelly William Boyd Ex-cons, nuns and oil-men cross destinies in this high-octane The first play by bestselling author William Boyd, Longing adapts thriller written for two actors. two of Chekhov's short stories, A Visit to Friends and My Life, to weave a comic tale, at once exotic and familiar. UK March 2014 • US March 2014 96 pages UK February 2013 • US April 2013 PB 9781472582881 • £9.99 / $17.95 96 pages Individual eBook 9781472582874 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472517456 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472582867 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472517432 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472517449 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Margaret Thatcher Queen of Melody Loses Her Mojo Soho Keith Saha Jon Brittain & Matt Tedford Melody Loses Her Mojo fuses Hip-hop theatre, dance, puppetry and street art to follow the amazing journeys of three A camp political odyssey in which the eponymous Prime Minister remarkable young people, whose stories intertwine in a world gets lost in Soho on the eve of the vote for Section 28 and full of magical and surreal moments. unintentionally becomes an overnight cabaret sensation. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 UK December 2013 • US February 2014 104 pages 64 pages PB 9781472524423 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472577306 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472524690 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472577320 • £8.99 / $13.99 Library eBook 9781472529527 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472577313 • £27.00 / $43.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

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Mongrel Island My Name Is . . . Ed Harris Sudha Bhuchar Mongrel Island is a dazzlingly powerful and dreamlike comic A captivating new play about love, family and ever-shifting play set in the mundane world of the everyday office. identities, which looks at a cross-cultural love story that began in late-seventies Glasgow.

odern UK July 2011 • US May 2013

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Not The Worst Place Occupied Sam Burns Carla Grauls Playwright Sam Burns weaves together a touching, sensitive A darkly comic play about immigration and identity in crisis by play that tackles our conflicting emotions about the place we playwright Carla Grauls, winner of the Nick Darke Award 2013. call home. UK April 2014 • US April 2014 UK April 2014 • US May 2014 96 pages 112 pages PB 9781472587923 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472589002 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472587947 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472588982 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472587930 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472588999 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Oh My Sweet Land Oh What A Lovely War Amir Nizar Zuabi Theatre Workshop & Joan Littlewood Amir Nizar Zuabi's urgent and extraordinary play explores the Oh What a Lovely War is a theatrical chronicle of the First World crisis in Syria through the stories of its two million refugees. War, told through the songs and documents of the period.

UK April 2014 • US April 2014 UK February 2014 • US April 2014 64 pages 112 pages PB 9781472589392 • £8.99 / $15.95 PB 9781472584649 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472589415 • £8.99 / $13.99 Individual eBook 9781472584656 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472589408 • £27.00 / $43.00 Library eBook 9781472584663 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

One Thousand and One Nights Paper Dolls Hanan al-Shaykh & Tim Supple Philip Himberg This unique stage adaptation of the ancient tales unearths Paper Dolls explores changing patterns of global immigration their true character from the oldest Arabic manuscripts: erotic, and expanding notions of family through the prism of a brutal, witty, poetic and complex. community of Filipino transvestites who live illegally in Israel.

UK August 2011 • US May 2013 UK March 2013 • US April 2013 256 pages 112 pages PB 9781408159613 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472511270 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781408159620 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472507471 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408174739 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472505606 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

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peddling Peter Pan Goes Wrong

Harry Melling Jonathan Sayer, Henry Lewis & Henry Shields drama peddling is a monologue about a young homeless man, which Following on from the success of The Play that Goes Wrong, confronts whether it's a good thing to turn a blind eye and let award-winning theatre creators Theatre Mischief present Peter people get on with their lives or whether that's exactly how Pan Goes Wrong, a farcical twist of J.M. Barrie's classic tale. people fall through the cracks. UK December 2013 • US February 2014 UK April 2014 • US April 2014 96 pages 64 pages PB 9781472574916 • £9.99 / $19.99 PB 9781472582621 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472574923 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472582638 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472574930 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472582645 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Playing with Grown Ups Private Lives Hannah Patterson Noël Coward Hannah Patterson's Playing with Grown Ups is a frank and funny Elyot Chase and Amanda Prynne, divorced from one another exploration of relationships and what it means to be a woman in five years previously, arrive coincidentally at the same French contemporary society. hotel. They are both honeymooning with their respective new spouses, but find that the old bond between them cannot be swept aside. UK May 2013 • US July 2013 112 pages PB 9781472530691 • £9.99 / $17.95 UK June 2013 Individual eBook 9781472524157 • £9.99 / $15.99 96 pages Library eBook 9781472529411 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472523730 • £9.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781472527899 • £9.99 World English Library eBook 9781472534460 • £30.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market

Protest Song Quiz Show and Bullet Catch Tim Price Rob Drummond A dramatic monologue about the Occupy Movement and a Two unique and entertaining pieces of theatre from one of remarkable political moment through the eyes of Danny, a Scotland's most exciting theatre makers, Rob Drummond. homeless man, who is sleeping outside St Paul's Cathedral. UK March 2013 • US June 2013 UK December 2013 • US February 2014 152 pages 64 pages PB 9781472534989 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472577054 • £8.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781472535085 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472577078 • £8.99 / $13.99 Library eBook 9781472535092 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472577061 • £27.00 / $43.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Race Rapture, Blister, Burn David Mamet Gina Gionfriddo A new play from Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright David Mamet. Gina Gionfriddo dissects modern gender politics in this breathtakingly witty and virtuosic comedy. UK June 2013 80 pages UK January 2014 • US March 2014 PB 9781472528636 • £9.99 104 pages Individual eBook 9781472529817 • £9.99 PB 9781472578570 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472522863 • £9.99 Individual eBook 9781472578594 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472578587 • £30.00 / $48.00 Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/Europe/Open Market Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Red Velvet Refugee Boy 2nd edition Benjamin Zephaniah Lolita Chakrabarti Based on the novel by Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy is an urgent story of a courageous African boy sent to England to Based on the true story of Ira Aldridge, this second edition of escape the violent civil war, a story about arriving, belonging

odern Red Velvet includes the revisions made to the script for the and finding ‘home’. Adapted by Lemn Sissay from the novel 2014 revival of the play. It also features contextual articles by by Benjamin Zephaniah, Refugee Boy is a story about arriving, M Lolita Chakrabarti about the real Ira Aldridge, and a piece by belonging and finding ‘home’. Professor Ayanna Thompson about the significance of Aldridge's erasure from standard theatre history and the importance of the play in this regard. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 80 pages UK January 2014 • US March 2014 PB 9781472506450 • £9.99 / $17.95 112 pages Individual eBook 9781472514813 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472582430 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472513786 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472582447 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472582454 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Roots Routes Arnold Wesker Rachel De-lahay A true classic, Roots is an affecting portrait of a young woman Routes by Rachel De-lahay is a cutting-edge new play about finding her voice at a time of unprecedented social change. immigration and exile, and what happens when people fall through the cracks. UK October 2013 • US November 2013 96 pages UK September 2013 • US November 2013 PB 9781472527714 • £9.99 / $17.95 96 pages Individual eBook 9781472522450 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472522610 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472531575 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472526243 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472528377 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Salt, Root and Roe Scarfed For Life Tim Price 2nd edition Ethereally beautiful, Salt, Root and Roe is a heartbreaking, Martin Travers humorous tale of love and family against a mythical backdrop. Touching relationships and believable characterisation provide a A modern parable set against the backdrop of the first Old Firm poignant framework to Salt, Root and Roe, where pragmatism, clash of the season, Scarfed for Life is a hard-hitting play about exhausted lives and childrens' fairytales collide in this prejudice and sectarianism in Glasgow. The language in this exploration of grief, loss and acceptance. edition has been revised specifically with school-age students in mind, and is an ideal, issue-led play for students 14+.

UK November 2011 • US May 2013 UK February 2014 • US March 2014 96 pages 80 pages PB 9781408172032 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472582522 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781408172063 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472582539 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172056 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472582546 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

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Shallow Slumber Shiver

Chris Lee Daniel Kanaber drama An elegiac, emotionally charged and tragic account of the A haunting, warm and funny play about family, identity and relationship between a social worker and a troubled mother. love.

UK January 2012 • US May 2013 UK February 2014 • US April 2014 64 pages 112 pages PB 9781408172674 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472579218 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781408172681 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472579232 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408172698 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472579225 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Skin Tight Sleeping Beauty Gary Henderson Jez Bond & Mark Cameron Winner of an Edinburgh Festival Fringe First Award back in 1998, A colourful and quirky new version of the timeless tale of Skin Tight is a dark and beautiful love story, at once lyrical and Sleeping Beauty, adapted for the stage by Jez Bond and Mark physical. Cameron.

UK July 2013 • US September 2013 UK December 2013 • US February 2014 64 pages 152 pages PB 9781472532015 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472574954 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472525949 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472574978 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472528964 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472574961 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Spoiling Stroke of Luck John McCann Larry Belling Spoiling is a brilliant political comedy that boldly and humorously deals with some A dark, outrageous comedy of greed, family and love by inflammatory issues. It is the only one in fifty plays by the Traverse's writers to American playwright Larry Belling. receive a full commission. UK January 2014 • US March 2014 UK July 2014 • US August 2014 112 pages 64 pages PB 9781472573216 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472594730 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472573230 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472594754 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472573223 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472594747 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Takin' Over the Asylum 'Ten Plagues' and 'The Coronation Donna Franceschild of Poppea' Adapted for the stage by the author, Takin' Over the Asylum is a Mark Ravenhill hilarious, updated and profoundly moving adaptation of Donna Franceschild's Bafta-winning BBC TV-series. Told through a series of songs, Ten Plagues explores humanity's struggle with sickness and death and celebrates our capacity for survival. This volume also contains The Coronation of Poppea, UK January 2013 • US March 2013 a new version of Monteverdi's opera depicting the triumphant 96 pages adultery between Poppea and Roman Emperor Nero. PB 9781472507464 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472509499 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472505088 • £30.00 / $48.00 UK August 2011 • US May 2013 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 96 pages World English PB 9781408160541 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781408160534 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408165911 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

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Tender Loving Care The Arrival Vickie Donoghue Kristine Landon-Smith & Sita Brahmachari June 5, 1944, Southsea Beach. A girl, Poppy, stands on the Based on the illustrated novel by Oscar winner Shaun Tan, this precipice of history. Tomorrow is the biggest day of her life. epic migration story unfolds through an extraordinary weaving D-Day. A beautifully written play about the role of women on together of theatre, circus and music. The Arrival tells the

odern the Home Front during the Second World War. age-old story of immigration that is universal across peoples of diverse histories, countries and cultures. M UK June 2014 • US June 2014 80 pages UK March 2013 • US May 2013 PB 9781472592798 • £9.99 / $17.95 48 pages Individual eBook 9781472592804 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472535009 • £7.99 / $13.95 Library eBook 9781472592811 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472535061 • £7.99 / $11.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472535078 • £24.00 / $39.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Cement Garden The Children & Have I None Ian McEwan Edward Bond David Aula and Jimmy Osborne’s stage adaptation of Ian Two plays from one of Britain's most challenging dramatists. McEwan's 1978 novel explores coming-of-age, burgeoning Both are set in a late-21st-century post-apocalyptic landscape sexuality and the distortions of a 14-year-old mind. where human behaviour is monitored, living spaces are designated and any emotional displays are eradicated. UK February 2014 • US April 2014 104 pages UK October 2000 • US September 2013 PB 9781472583833 • £9.99 / $17.95 96 pages Individual eBook 9781472583840 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9780413756305 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472583857 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781408169926 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781408171424 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Clean Collection: Plays and The Cow Play Poems Ed Harris Dry Ice; One Hour Only; Clean and poems Owen can't seem to write, Thom's exhaust pipe is ruined, and Holly is turning into a cow. The Cow Play is an absurd black Sabrina Mahfouz comedy about the ethics of trying to save those we love. A dynamic collection of three of Sabrina Mahfouz’s pieces for the theatre, published alongside a selection of her poetry. Plays UK August 2013 • US October 2013 included are Dry Ice – a critically acclaimed solo show about a 72 pages young stripper, One Hour Only – which tells the story of a young PB 9781472533968 • £9.99 / $17.95 woman's first night working as a prostitute and Clean – in which three young friends, Individual eBook 9781472531261 • £9.99 / $15.99 Zainab, Chloe and Katya, perpetrate victimless, 'clean', crimes. Library eBook 9781472525437 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English UK March 2014 • US March 2014 144 pages PB 9781472534132 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472525642 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472533357 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Cripple of Inishmaan The Epic Adventure of Nhamo Martin McDonagh the Manyika Warrior and his Sexy An uproariously funny play from Tony- and Oscar-winning writer Wife Chipo Martin McDonagh. Denton Chikura UK June 2013 • US August 2013 An exciting and highly theatrical debut from actor and 96 pages playwright Denton Chikura. PB 9781472530172 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472533289 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472522313 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK August 2013 • US September 2013 World English 80 pages PB 9781472534507 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472526892 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472528698 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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The Grand Gesture The Kindness of Strangers

Deborah McAndrew Curious Directive drama Deborah McAndrew's adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s 1928 play is An uplifting, exhilarating, once-in-a-lifetime theatre experience a witty satire of lobbyists seeking political control. from award-winning theatre-makers Curious Directive.

UK September 2013 • US November 2013 UK August 2013 • US October 2013 104 pages 88 pages PB 9781472531186 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472529770 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472526014 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472533012 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472533845 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472529015 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

The Life and Sort of Death of Eric The Misanthrope Argyle Molière Ross Dungan Following the huge successes of Tartuffe and The Hypochondriac master wordsmith Roger McGough once again dips his quill into Telling the story of one man's life and afterlife, The Life and The Misanthrope, the comedy many consider to be Molière's Sort of Death of Eric Argyle was nominated for Best New Play at best work. the Irish Times Theatre Awards. UK February 2013 • US April 2013 UK April 2013 • US June 2013 96 pages 88 pages PB 9781472510716 • £9.99 /$14.95 PB 9781472521682 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472513090 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472524003 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472513199 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472530967 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

The Nativity Goes Wrong The Play That Goes Wrong Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields Following on from the success of The Play That Goes Wrong, A farcical murder mystery in two acts, conceived by the award- this is another triumphant farce from Theatre Mischief, ideal for winning improvisational company Theatre Mischief. the Christmas season and for anyone that's ever seen - or been in - a Nativity Play. UK February 2014 • US April 2014 88 pages UK December 2013 • US February 2014 PB 9781472576200 • £9.99 / $17.95 64 pages Individual eBook 9781472576224 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472574992 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472576217 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472575012 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472575005 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui The Speckled People Bertolt Brecht Hugo Hamilton Translated by George Tabori & Alistair Beaton Adapted for the stage from the best-selling memoir, The Speckled People tells a profoundly moving story of a young boy In a brand new translation, this scathing satire and parable trapped in a language war. transposes the rise of Hitler to gangland Chicago and continues to have relevance wherever totalitarianism appears today. UK October 2011 • US April 2013 96 pages UK December 2013 • US November 2013 PB 9781408171189 • £9.99 / $17.95 112 pages Individual eBook 9781408171202 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472566577 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781408171196 • £30.00 / $48.00 Individual eBook 9781472566799 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472566782 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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The World of Extreme Happiness Thebes Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig Gareth Jandrell, Sophocles & Aeschylus An incredibly powerful, assured, urgent drama by the writer of A contemporary re-working of Sophocles and Aeschylus's tales of the acclaimed Lidless, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig. Thebes. This version weaves together Sophocles and Aeschylus to present the full, visceral and bloody account of the Oedipus

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This House Tonight at 8.30 James Graham Noël Coward A timely and relevant political comedy, This House explores Written as a vehicle for Coward’s own acting talents alongside Westminster and the 1974 hung parliament through a his frequent stage partner Gertrude Lawrence, Tonight at 8:30 combinations of wit and waspish dialogue; comedy and political is Coward’s ambitious series of 10 one-act plays which saw comment; and historical and contemporary concerns. him breathe new life into the one-act form. All 10 plays are collected together into this volume that features both Coward’s own preface and an introduction by Barry Day, Coward expert UK June 2013 • US August 2013 and editor of The Letters of Noël Coward. 136 pages PB 9781472507020 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472506283 • £9.99 / $15.99 UK April 2014 • US May 2014 Library eBook 9781472507600 • £30.00 / $48.00 304 pages Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama PB 9781472589439 • £14.99 /$25.95 World English Individual eBook 9781472589453 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472589446 • £45.00 / $72.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

True Brits Vinay Patel Wasted A one-man play that tracks the life of Rahul, a young Londoner, Kate Tempest as he tries to stake a claim for himself as British and understand what that entails. Wasted is the first play by renowned performance poet Kate Tempest, featuring her trademark lyrical ferocity in a dynamic theatrical work. UK July 2014 • US August 2014 64 pages PB 9781472594815 • £8.99 / $15.95 UK March 2013 • US April 2013 Individual eBook 9781472594839 • £8.99 / $13.99 80 pages Library eBook 9781472594822 • £27.00 / $43.00 PB 9781408185766 • £9.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408184677 • £9.99 / $15.99 World English Library eBook 9781408184448 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Presentation About the Herero of Namibia, Formerly Known 13 as Southwest Africa, From the Mike Bartlett German Sudwestafrika, Between An epic look at faith, politics and leadership from the stellar playwright Mike Bartlett. the Years 1884 - 1915 Jackie Sibblies Drury UK October 2011 • US April 2013 144 pages A group of actors gather to tell the little-known story of the first genocide of the PB 9781408171912 • £9.99 / $17.95 twentieth century in this play which collides the political with the personal. Individual eBook 9781408171936 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408171929 • £30.00 / $48.00 UK March 2014 • US March 2014 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama 128 pages World English PB 9781472585097 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472585110 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472585103 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Plays • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Modern Classics The Modern Classics series spans the half century of play publishing since that time to offer a selection of around 50 of the best plays from the modern repertoire by some of the leading British and international playwrights. Many feature an introduction and all are presented in a distinctive series design.

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Citizenship Harper Regan Mark Ravenhill Simon Stephens Citizenship is Mark Ravenhill's classic play, presented here in From Uxbridge to Stockport to Manchester and back again, Methuen Drama's genre-defining series. Harper Regan navigates the UK, exploring family, love and delusion. UK April 2015 • US June 2015 60 pages UK April 2015 • US June 2015 PB 9781472513830 • £9.99 / $17.95 112 pages Individual eBook 9781472514196 • £9.99 / $15.99 PB 9781472574671 • £9.99 / $17.95 Library eBook 9781472508324 • £9.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781472574695 • £9.99 / $15.99 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472574688 • £30.00 / $48.00 World English Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Knives in Hens Love, Love, Love David Harrower Mike Bartlett A brutal fable set in a timeless spartan rural community. It has Love, Love, Love explores whether the baby-boomer generation been staged in 25 countries around the world and is widely is to blame for the debt-ridden and adrift generation of their acknowledged as a modern Scottish classic. children, now adults, but far from stable and settled.

UK April 2015 • US June 2015 UK April 2015 • US June 2015 64 pages 144 pages PB 9781472574312 • £9.99 / $17.95 PB 9781472574732 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472574336 • £9.99 / $15.99 Individual eBook 9781472574756 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472574329 • £30.00 / $48.00 Library eBook 9781472574749 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

Pravda David Hare & Howard Brenton An iconic play in 20th-century British theatre, which looks at the corrupt world of journalism, the tabloid ethic and the media industry as a get-rich-quick-fix.This Modern Classics edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at the University of Leeds, UK, and a foreword by Jonathan Church.

UK April 2015 • US June 2015 128 pages PB 9781472574770 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472574800 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472574794 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Roots Sucker Punch Arnold Wesker Roy Williams A true classic, Roots is an affecting portrait of a young woman finding her voice at a Roy Williams's Sucker Punch looks back on what it was like to be young and black in time of unprecedented social change. the 1980s and asks if the right battles have been fought, let alone won.

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The Mountaintop The Pitchfork Disney Katori Hall Philip Ridley Winner of the Olivier Award for Best New Play, The Mountaintop is a historical- Philip Ridley's great breakthrough work, reissued as part of fantastical two-hander that portrays the penultimate day in the life of Martin Luther Methuen Drama's genre-defining series, Modern Classics. King. This Modern Classics edition of the play features a foreword by Michael Eric Dyson and an introduction by Faedra Chatard Carpenter, Assistant Professor and UK April 2015 • US June 2015 Director of Undergraduate Studies in Theatre, University of Maryland, USA. 96 pages PB 9781472514004 • £9.99 / $17.95 UK April 2015 • US June 2015 Individual eBook 9781472508041 • £9.99 / $15.99 96 pages Library eBook 9781472510471 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781472587718 • £9.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781472587725 • £9.99 / $15.99 World English Library eBook 9781472587732 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Romans in Britain The Wonderful World of Dissocia Howard Brenton Anthony Neilson The Romans in Britain contrasts Julius Caesar's Roman invasion of Celtic Britain with Described by the Daily Telegraph as a 'modern classic', The Wonderful World of the Saxon invasion of Romano-Celtic Britain, and finally Britain's involvement in Dissocia is now reissued in Methuen Drama's genre-defining series. Northern Ireland during The Troubles of the late 20th century. This edition features an introduction by Philip Roberts, Emeritus Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at UK April 2015 • US June 2015 the University of Leeds, UK, and a foreword by director Sam West. 176 pages PB 9781472509598 • £9.99 / $17.95 UK April 2015 • US June 2015 Individual eBook 9781472508027 • £9.99 / $15.99 80 pages Library eBook 9781472505057 • £9.99 / $14.95 PB 9781472574398 • £9.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781472574411 • £9.99 / $15.99 World English Library eBook 9781472574404 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Modern Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Tory Boyz James Graham Tory Boyz is a bold and astute political comedy that takes us behind the scenes of the corridors of power at Westminster where saving face and avoiding scandal is the order of the day. This edition contains the updated script from 2013 as well as an introduction by Anthony Banks, director and Associate Director for National Theatre Learning.

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Contemporary Dramatists The Contemporary Dramatists series celebrates the work of individual writers, bringing together into single volumes a number of plays from their oeuvre. Each volume includes a chronology of the writer's work and an introduction to the plays featured. The series is truly international with collections from leading French, German, Italian and

American writers, as well as the best of British playwrights. Taken as a whole, it represents an index of great contemporary playwriting. drama

Bond Plays: 7 Bond Plays: 9 The Crime of the Twenty-First Century; Innocence; Window, Tune, Balancing Act; Olly's Prison; Coffee The Edge Edward Bond Edward Bond The latest collection of plays by one of Europe's most important Bringing together recent work by the writer of the classic stage playwrights. plays Saved and Lear, this volume includes Innocence, the final play in The Paris Pentad. This dramatic epic portrays a world The Crime Of The Twenty-First Century: The past has been of violence, where the characters seek refuge in each other to abolished and geography - even the sky - is changed. A woman lives in a vast desert of escape the cruelty of war. white rubble. A tiny group of people comes seeking a hiding place - and is exposed to the deepest questions of human existence. Four shorter plays explore the problems of modern youth culture, including drug use, violence, suicide, and mother-son relations. Ideally suited to students, performers Olly's Prison: An ordinary city flat. Evening. A man tries to talk to his daughter. She and university showcases, they are short, interesting and powerful pieces. will not answer. Slowly their world turns to tragedy and a search begins that lasts for years. This edition also includes an introduction and five of Bond's previously unpublished Theatre Poems. Coffee: A young man alone in a room. A stranger enters. Together they journey into a dark forest...When the men return to the daylight world, they are involved in a trivial UK October 2011 • US September 2013 incident. It is hardly more than a gesture - yet it is something that once happened 288 pages and in its triviality captures the history of our century and confronts us with the PB 9781408160633 • £16.99 / $29.95 deepest questions about ourselves. Individual eBook 9781408177037 • £16.99 / $26.99 "A great playwright - many, particularly in continental Europe, would say the Library eBook 9781408177044 • £51.00 / $82.00 greatest living English playwright." Independent Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Methuen Drama World English "A play by one of Britain's greatest playwrights is an event." TES Edward Bond's grim portrait of urban violence, Saved (1965), in which a baby is stoned in its pram, aroused much admiration as well as a ban from the Lord Chamberlain. His provocative plays include Early Morning (1969), Lear (1971), The Sea (1973), The Fool (1975), Restoration (1981), Summer (1982), The War Plays (1985) and Olly's Prison (1992).

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Ravenhill Plays: 3 Sherman Plays: 2 Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat; Over There; Onassis; Passing By; The Miser A Life in Three Acts; Ten Plagues; Ghost Martin Sherman Story; The Experiment Onassis portrays the last years of the life of the wealthy

odern Mark Ravenhill shipping magnate Aristotle Onassis, who, after a notorious affair with Maria Callas, married Jacqueline Kennedy, widow of US M This is the new collection of plays from leading British dramatist President John F. Kennedy, in 1968. Mark Ravenhill. It draws together the following plays: Shoot/ Get Treasure/Repeat, Over There, Ten Plagues, A Life in Three Passing By, first performed in New York in 1975, is both a brave Acts, Ghost Story, and The Experiment. The anthology also features an introduction and a charming romantic comedy about a love between two men whose hearts pull by the author. them together as their lives pull them apart. 'One of the most radical plays ever written. Quirky, funny, touching, romantic and revolutionary. It overturned my life. Mark Ravenhill is one of the most distinctive contemporary UK playwrights. He burst on Perhaps it will do the same for others.' Simon Callow to the theatre scene in 1996 with the huge hit Shopping and Fucking. He has continued to garner critical acclaim for plays that include Some Explicit Polaroids, Mother Clap's Molly House, Shoot/Get Treasure/Repeat, A Life in Three Acts, Ten Plagues and A Life of Galileo. The Miser is Moliere’s satirical masterpiece about obsession and status endures. Fast, funny and full of energy, this sparkling new version by Martin Sherman is as pertinent today as it was when first written and performed by Moliere in the seventeenth UK September 2013 • US November 2013 century. Sherman’s adaptation received its world premiere at the Watermill Theatre, 456 pages Newbury, on 11 April 2013. PB 9781472510341 • £17.99 / $30.95 Individual eBook 9781472512994 • £17.99 / $27.99 Martin Sherman’s early plays include Passing By, Cracks and Rio Grande, all originally Library eBook 9781472507754 • £15.99 / $29.95 presented by Playwrights Horizons in New York. Bent premiered at the Royal Court in 1979, transferred to the Criterion Theatre and was then presented on Broadway, where it received Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama a Tony nomination for Best Play and won the Dramatist Guild's Hull-Warriner Award. It World English has been voted one of the NT2000 One Hundred Plays of the Century. His next plays were Messiah (1983), When She Danced (1988), A Madhouse in Goa (1989), Some Sunny Day (1996) and Rose (1999). Rose received an Olivier nomination for Best Play and transferred to Broadway the following season.

UK April 2013 • US June 2013 Williams Plays: 4 224 pages PB 9781472522269 • £15.99 / $27.95 Sucker Punch; Category B; Joe Guy; Baby Individual eBook 9781472529794 • £15.99 / $24.99 Library eBook 9781472527684 • £15.99 / $27.95 Girl; There’s Only One Wayne Matthews Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Roy Williams World English This fourth collection of plays, introduced by the author, showcases the diversity, the moral probing and the fine ear for

authentic dialogue characteristic of his writing. The anthology draws together the following plays: Sucker Punch, Category B, Joe Guy, and Baby Girl. Roy Williams worked as an actor before turning to writing National Theatre Connections full-time in 1990. He is one of the most important contemporary dramatists, with a particular relevance and popularity among young people. 2014 Roy Williams, OBE, worked as an actor before turning to writing full-time in 1990. He is one Plays for Young People: Same; Horizon; of the most important contemporary dramatists, with a particular relevance and popularity among young people. The Wardrobe; Heritage; A Letter to Lacey; A Shop Selling Speech; Angels; Hearts; UK September 2013 • US November 2013 Pronoun; Tomorrow 416 pages PB 9781472520692 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472520708 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472520715 • £15.99 / $29.95 Sabrina Mahfouz, Simon Vinnicombe, Catherine Johnson, Series: Contemporary Dramatists • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Pauline McLynn, Dafydd James, World English Luke Norris, Sam Holcroft, Matt Hartley, Deborah Bruce & Evan Placey Edited by Anthony Banks Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - National Theatre Connections 2014 coincides with the festival, taking place across the UK and finishes up at the National Theatre in London.

Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the young performer in mind. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.

Featuring an introduction by Anthony Banks, Associate Director of the National Theatre Discover Programme, UK, as well as performance notes for each play from the writer and director addressing the themes and ideas behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises. Anthony Banks is Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, UK, where he commissions scripts for the Connections seasons, the Primary Theatre programme and Shakespeare Schools Festival, and curates a variety of projects and events for lifelong learning.

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Eden’s Empire; Alaska; Shades; Freefall; Forgotten; Drum Belly; drama A Day at the Racists; The Westbridge Planet Belfast; Desolate Heaven; James Graham, D.C. Moore, Anders Lustgarten, Alia Bano & The Boys of Foley Street Rachel De-lahay Michael West, Pat Kinevane, Richard Dormer, Edited by Aleks Sierz Rosemary Jenkinson, Ailís Ní Ríain & Louise Lowe Edited and introduced by leading cultural and theatre critic Aleks Sierz, this bold and urgent collection of contemporary plays by England's newest and most relevant Edited by Patrick Lonergan young writers explores the various cultures and identities of a nation that is at once traditional, nationalistic and multicultural. The plays included are James Graham's Contemporary Irish Plays showcases the new drama that has emerged since 2006. Eden's Empire; D. C. Moore's Alaska, Anders Lustgarten's A Day at the Racists, Alia Featuring a blend of established and emerging writers, the anthology shows how Bano's Shades and Rachel De-Lahay's The Westbridge. Irish writers are embracing new methods of theatre-making to explore exciting new themes – while also finding new ways to come to terms with the legacies of The first collection to look at the country's drama in terms of their English identity, as the Troubles and the Celtic Tiger. Plays included are Michael West's Freefall, Pat opposed to an overarching concept of 'Britain', Contemporary English Plays features Kinevane's Forgotten, Richard Dormer's Drum Belly, Rosemary Jenkinson's Planet some of the most highly respected and cutting-edge playwrights writing today. Belfast, Ailís Ní Ríain's Desolate Heaven and Louise Lowe and Anu Production's Boys of Foley Street. Aleks Sierz FRSA is Visiting Professor at Rose Bruford College, London, UK, and author of In-Yer-Face Theatre: British Drama Today, John Osborne's Look Back in Anger, Rewriting the Edited by Patrick Lonergan, Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at National Nation: British Theatre Today and Modern British Playwriting: The 1990s. He also works as a journalist, broadcaster, lecturer and theatre critic. University of Ireland, Galway, the collection features two previously unpublished plays, the critically-acclaimed The Boys of Foley Street and Planet Belfast.

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Patrick Lonergan is a lecturer in English at National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes about theatre for The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His first book, Theatre and 448 pages Globalization, was awarded the 2008 Theatre Book Prize. He has authored two Student PB 9781472587985 • £17.99 / $29.95 Editions of plays by Martin McDonagh and is editor of The Methuen Drama Anthology of Irish Individual eBook 9781472587992 • £17.99 / $27.99 Plays (2008). Library eBook 9781472588005 • £54.00 / $87.00 Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English UK January 2015 • US March 2015 400 pages PB 9781472576682 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472576699 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472576705 • £54.00 / $87.00 Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Contemporary Scottish Plays Contemporary Welsh Plays Caledonia; Bullet Catch; The Artist Man and Tonypendemonium; The Radicalisation Mother Woman; Narrative; Rantin' of Bradley Manning; Gardening: For the Alistair Beaton, Rob Drummond, Morna Unfulfilled and Alienated; Llwyth (in Pearson, Anthony Neilson & Kieran Hurley Welsh); Parallel Lines; Bruised Edited by Trish Reid Edited By Tim Price & Kate Wasserberg

Scotland is entering a crucial period in its history, where its identity is being debated This collection of contemporary Welsh plays is the first to officially recognise the 'new daily, from everyday conversation to the national and international press. At the same wave' of Welsh playwrights, ranging from established, award-winning writers to those time, its theatre is resurgent. on the cusp of national recognition. It showcases a wide range of forms, themes and political concerns, representing the most exciting voices at the forefront of Welsh Contemporary Scottish Plays gathers five plays from some of today’s most remarkable drama - the first golden age of Welsh playwriting. Plays included are Tim Price's Scottish writers, showcasing the strength, diversity and range of contemporary The Radicalisation of Bradley Manning, Kath Chandler's Parallel Lines, Matthew Scottish drama. Plays included are Alistair Beaton's Caledonia, Rob Drummond's Bullet Trevannion's Bruised, Dafydd James's Welsh-language play Llwyth, Brad Birch's Catch, Morna Pearson's The Artist Man and The Mother Woman, Anthony Neilson's Gardening for the Unfulfilled and Alienated and Rachel Trezise's Tonypandemonium. Narrative and Kieran Hurley's Rantin. Contemporary Welsh Plays includes a foreword by David Ian Rabey and Charmian Edited and introduced by Trish Reid, Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Savill, an introduction by Tim Price and Kate Wasserberg, and a chronology of major Screen Studies at Kingston University, London, UK, Contemporary Scottish Plays brings events in Welsh playwriting in the 21st century. together the best in contemporary Scottish playwriting under the critical context of Tim Price is a Welsh playwright and screenwriter. He is associate playwright at the Traverse the leading scholar of Scotland's stage. theatre and co-founder of Welsh new writing company Dirty Protest. Trish Reid is Deputy Head of the School of Performance and Screen Studies at Kingston Kate Wasserberg is Artistic Director of The Other Room, Cardiff’s first pub theatre. She is University, UK. She is a leading scholar of Scottish drama and performance studies and the the former Associate Director of Clwyd Theatr Cymru, where she was responsible for new author of Theatre and Scotland (2012) and The Theatre of Anthony Neilson (forthcoming, writing and for programming the annual Celtic Festival. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2016).

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 UK September 2014 • US November 2014 432 pages 376 pages PB 9781472576583 • £17.99 / $29.95 PB 9781472574435 • £17.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472576613 • £17.99 / $27.99 Individual eBook 9781472574466 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472576590 • £54.00 / $87.00 Library eBook 9781472574442 • £54.00 / $87.00 Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Play Anthologies • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English World English

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Berliner Ensemble Adaptations First World War Plays The Tutor; Coriolanus; The Trial of Joan of Night Watches; Mine Eyes Have Seen; Arc at Rouen, 1431; Don Juan; Trumpets Tunnel Trench; Post Mortem; and Drums Oh What A Lovely War; The Accrington Pals;

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M Translated by Wolfgang Sauerlander, Ralph Edited by Mark Rawlinson Manheim, Rose Kastner & Martin Kastner Edited by David Barnett First World War Plays draws together canonical and lesser-known plays from World War I to the end of the 20th century, tracing the ways in which dramatists have This volume contains Brecht’s post-1950 adaptations of world dramatic classics for engaged with and resisted war in their works. The anthology explores the changing the Berliner Ensemble. Brecht’s remodeled versions show all of the great dramatist’s cultural attitudes to warfare, including the significance of the war over time, characteristic preoccupations: disgust with personal greatness, admiration of the interwar pacifism, historical revisionism and repercussions in a divided Ireland.The people and hatred of war unless waged on behalf of the people who, to him, were collection includes writing by combatants, as well as playwrights addressing historical the embodiment of wisdom and good sense. Adaptations included are based on Lenz's events and national memory, by both men and women, and by writers from Great The Tutor; Shakespeare's Coriolanus; Molière’s Don Juan; Seghers's The Trial of Joan Britain, Ireland and the United States. of Arc and Farquhar's The Recruiting Officer, adapted by Brecht as Trumpets and Mark Rawlinson is a Reader in English Literature at the University of Leicester, UK. His Drums. research has a particular focus on the literature of war. British Writing of the Second World War (2000) was a study of the literary culture of wartime Britain (1939-1945). He has written A critical introduction and explanatory notes accompany the plays, written by David a book-length study of Pat Barker’s fiction, focusing on her representation of the Great War, Barnett, an expert on Brecht and the Berliner Ensemble. and was co-editor, with Adam Piette, of The Edinburgh Companion to Twentieth Century Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, British and American War Literature (2012). work with the Berliner Ensemble and critical writings have had a considerable influence on the theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera, Fear and Misery of the UK June 2014 • US August 2014 Third Reich, The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and Her Children and The Caucasian Chalk 472 pages Circle. PB 9781472529893 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781472523846 • £75.00 / $128.00 David Barnett is Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex, Individual eBook 9781472527509 • £19.99 / $27.99 UK. He has published books on German theatre (studies on Heiner Müller and Rainer Werner Library eBook 9781472532626 • £60.00 / $96.00 Fassbinder), and has also published several essays and articles on German-, English-language, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama political and postdramatic theatre. World English

UK July 2014 • US September 2014 520 pages PB 9781472514387 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472512857 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781472506641 • £16.99 / $26.95 Series: World Classics • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy The Methuen Drama Anthology of The Al-Hamlet Summit; Richard III, an Arab Modern Asian Plays Tragedy; The Speaker’s Progress Edited by Siyuan Liu & Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. Sulayman Al Bassam This anthology provides a unique insight into 20th- and 21st- Edited by Graham Holderness century Asian theatre and a greater understanding of modern Asian theatre’s relations with Western theatre and with Sulayman Al Bassam is one of the world’s leading contemporary indigenous performance. Accompanied by introductions to the dramatists. His adaptations of Shakespeare, performed work of each playwright, the anthology includes nine spoken around the world, have won many awards and met with widespread acclaim on four stage plays from Japan, China, Korea, India, Indonesia and continents. This collection brings together for the first time three of Al Bassam’s Vietnam. adaptations of Shakespearean plays - including versions of Hamlet, Richard III and Twelfth Night - collectively known as The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy. Written between 1912 and 2009, the plays range from canonical works to more contemporary plays appearing in translation for the first time and include: The Post The Arab Shakespeare Trilogy features an introduction by Graham Holderness, Office by Rabindranath Tagore; Father Returns by Kikuchi Kan; The Struggle of the positioning the plays within the contexts of both modern Shakespearean drama and Naga Tribe by W. S. Rendra; Bicycle by O Tae-sok; Hayavadana by Girish Karnad; Hot Arab culture as well as an author’s preface by Sulayman Al Bassam, detailing the Pepper, Air Conditioner and the Farewell Speech by Okada Toshiki, and Truong Ba’s plays' history of theatrical reception and outlining his philosophy of Shakespeare Soul in the Butcher’s Skin by Luu Quang Vu. adaptation. Siyuan Liu is Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Sulayman Al Bassam founded Zaoum Theatre in London in 1996 before establishing SABAB Canada. Theatre, the Arabic arm, in 2002. His plays have been published in various languages and Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Professor of Theatre Arts at Loyola Marymount University, USA. study of his work forms part of higher education curriculae at universities in the USA and the Middle East. He produces work in both English and Arabic languages. UK May 2014 • US July 2014 Graham Holderness is Professor of English at the University of Hertfordshire, UK, author or 528 pages editor of numerous studies in early modern and modern literature and drama, and General PB 9781408176474 • £24.99 / $42.95 • HB 9781408176481 • £75.00 / $128.00 Editor of the peer-reviewed journal Critical Survey. He is also a creative writer, novelist and award-winning poet. Individual eBook 9781408176498 • £24.99 / $36.99 Library eBook 9781408176504 • £75.00 / $120.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK September 2014 • US November 2014 World English 224 pages • 12 illus PB 9781472526489 • £16.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781472533326 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472531520 • £51.00 / $82.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Enron The Cheviot, The Stag and the Lucy Prebble Black, Black Oil Edited by Rachel Clements John McGrath Mixing classical tragedy with savage comedy, Enron follows a Edited by Graeme Macdonald group of flawed men and women in a narrative of greed and loss which reviews the tumultuous 1990s and casts a new light John McGrath’s winding, furious, innovative play tracks the on the financial turmoil in which the world found itself in history of economic exploitation in the Scottish Highlands, from 2009. At once a case study and an allegory, the play charts the the post-Rebellion suppression of the clans to the Clearances notorious rise and fall of Enron and its founders Ken Lay and through to the estates of the stag-hunting gentry, ending with Jeffrey Skilling, who became ‘the most vilified figure from the financial scandal of the 1970s North Sea Oil rush. the century’. This Student Edition features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary; commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, A ‘ceilidh’ play, The Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil draws on historical and on the themes, characters, language and structure of the play, together with a research alongside Gaelic song and variety and popular entertainment to tell this epic list of suggested reading and questions for further study. story. Lucy Prebble’s first full-length play, The Sugar Syndrome (Royal Court, 2003), was awarded Premiered in 1973 by the agit-prop theatre group 7:84, this Student Edition of the the George Devine Award and TMA Award for Best New Play in 2004. Alongside her stage play play features expert and helpful annotation, including a scene-by-scene summary; Enron (2009), Prebble also created the TV series Secret Diary of a Call Girl, first broadcast commentary on the dramatic, social and political context, and on the themes, on ITV2 in the UK in 2007 and on Showtime in the United States in 2008. Most recently, characters, language and structure of the play, together with a list of suggested Prebble’s 2012 play, The Effect, won Best New Play at the Critics’ Circle Awards. reading and questions for further study. Rachel Clements is a lecturer in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of John McGrath was born in Birkenhead, Cheshire, in 1935. After national service and Oxford Manchester, UK. Research and teaching interests include contemporary theatre practice University, he wrote and directed for theatre and television, as well as writing for cinema. and, in particular, British playwriting; dramaturgy; documentary theatre; feminist practice; Early work included Z-Cars for BBC-TV (1962), Events While Guarding the Bofors Gun and the relationships between performance and politics, and performance and philosophy. (1966) and the screenplay for Billion Dollar Brain (1976). In 1971, together with Elizabeth She has recently completed the commentary and notes for the forthcoming Methuen Drama MacLennan, he co-founded the 7:84 Theatre Company, which divided into Scottish and Student Edition of Joe Penhall’s Blue/Orange. English companies in 1973 with McGrath remaining as Artistic Director of both. During his career McGrath wrote over 60 plays, including Fish in the Sea (1972), The Cheviot, the Stag UK February 2016 • US April 2016 and the Black, Black Oil (1973), Blood Red Roses (1980), Border Warfare (1989), Watching 112 pages for Dolphins (1992) and, most recently, HyperLynx (2001). He was twice Visiting Fellow in PB 9781472508744 • £9.99 / $17.95 Theatre at Cambridge University. His previous books include A Good Night Out (1981), The Individual eBook 9781472511409 • £9.99 / $12.99 Bone Won’t Break (1990) and Six Pack: Plays for Scotland (1996). Library eBook 9781472509307 • £9.99 / $15.95 McGrath founded Freeway Films in 1982, for which he produced, amongst others, The Series: Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Dressmaker (1985), Carrington (1995), Ma Vie en Rose (1997) and Aberdeen (2002). He also World English founded Moonstone International Screen Labs to support and promote independent European filmmaking. He received Lifetime Achievement Awards from both BAFTA (in 1993) and the Writers’ Guild of Great Britain (in 1997), as well as Honorary Doctorates from the University of Stirling and the University of London. He died in 2002. Graeme Macdonald is based at the University of Warwick, UK. Dr. Macdonald’s main research interests include the relationship between Literature and the Social Sciences from nineteenth century to the present; Resource Culture and Petrofiction; Modern and Contemporary Scottish and British Devolutionary Culture; He is the editor of Scottish Literature and Postcolonial Literature (2011) and Post Theory: New Directions in Criticism (1999).

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 128 pages PB 9781472531094 • £9.99 / $17.95 Individual eBook 9781472529572 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472531278 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Student Editions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Title Author Editor Pub Date Binding ISBN £ $ drama 4.48 Psychosis Sarah Kane 02/07/2015 Paperback 9781408103883 £9.99 $17.95

A Doll's House Henrik Ibsen Nick Worrall & Non Worrall 19/08/2008 Paperback 9781408106020 £8.99 $14.95 A Memory of Two Mondays Arthur Miller Joshua Polster 10/01/2011 Paperback 9781408123164 £9.99 * A Raisin In The Sun Lorraine Hansberry Deirdre Osborne 18/09/2011 Paperback 9781408140901 £9.99 * A Servant to Two Masters Carlo Goldoni & Lee Hall Joseph Farrell 22/03/2011 Paperback 9781408131053 £8.99 $13.95 A Streetcar Named Desire Tennessee Williams Michael Hooper & Patricia Hern 24/02/2009 Paperback 9781408106044 £9.99 * A Taste Of Honey Shelagh Delaney Elaine Aston & Glenda Leeming 13/08/2008 Paperback 9781408106013 £9.99 $14.95 odern A View from the Bridge Arthur Miller Steve Marino 30/04/2010 Paperback 9781408108406 £8.99 *

M Accidental Death of an Anarchist Dario Fo Joseph Farrell 16/10/2003 Paperback 9780413772671 £9.99 $13.95 After the Fall Arthur Miller Brenda Murphy 10/01/2011 Paperback 9781408123126 £9.99 * All My Sons Arthur Miller Toby Zinman 30/04/2010 Paperback 9781408108383 £8.99 * Antigone Sophocles Angie Varakis 04/05/2006 Paperback 9780413776044 £8.99 $14.95 Blasted Sarah Kane Ken Urban 23/06/2011 Paperback 9781408103852 £9.99 $14.95 Blood Brothers Willy Russell 10/05/2001 Paperback 9780413767707 £9.99 $13.95 Blood Wedding Federico Garcia Lorca & Gwynne Edwards 15/11/2006 Paperback 9780713685169 £9.99 $13.95 Blue/Orange Joe Penhall Rachel Clements 28/02/2013 Paperback 9781408140918 £9.99 $17.95 Broken Glass Arthur Miller Alan Ackerman 21/03/2011 Paperback 9781408128848 £9.99 * Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Tennessee Williams Philip Kolin 31/01/2010 Paperback 9781408114391 £9.99 * Closer Patrick Marber Daniel Rosenthal 26/02/2007 Paperback 9780713683295 £9.99 $14.95 Confusions Alan Ayckbourn Russell Whiteley 11/04/2007 Paperback 9780713685510 £9.99 $14.95 Copenhagen Michael Frayn Robert Butler 16/10/2003 Paperback 9780413773715 £9.99 $14.95 Death and the King's Horseman Wole Soyinka 02/07/1998 Paperback 9780413695505 £9.99 $13.95 Death of a Salesman Arthur Miller Enoch Brater 30/04/2010 Paperback 9781408108413 £8.99 * Doña Rosita the Spinster Federico Garcia Lorca Gwynne Edwards 02/07/2008 Paperback 9781408105054 £9.99 $14.95 Dreams Of Anne Frank Bernard Kops 25/08/1997 Paperback 9780413712509 £9.99 $10.95 Educating Rita Willy Russell Steve Lewis 03/09/2007 Paperback 9780713687569 £9.99 $17.95 Elektra Euripides J. Michael Walton & Marianne McDonald 26/08/2004 Paperback 9780413770400 £9.99 $12.95 Fear and Misery of the Third Reich Bertolt Brecht Charlotte Ryland 23/08/2009 Paperback 9781408100080 £9.99 $14.95 Ghosts Henrik Ibsen Non Worrall 05/01/2008 Paperback 9780713686753 £8.99 $14.95 Glengarry Glen Ross David Mamet 26/08/2004 Paperback 9780413774187 £9.99 * Hedda Gabler Henrik Ibsen David Thomas 25/04/2002 Paperback 9780413770707 £8.99 $13.95 Lear Edward Bond Patricia Hern 14/04/1983 Paperback 9780413519504 £9.99 $13.95 Life Of Galileo Bertolt Brecht John Willett & Ralph Manheim 08/11/2001 Paperback 9780413763808 £9.99 $14.95 Loot Joe Orton Andrew Mayne 27/07/2006 Paperback 9780413567604 £9.99 $14.95 Medea Euripides Marianne McDonald & J. Michael Walton 18/07/2002 Paperback 9780413770301 £9.99 $13.95 Miss Julie August Strindberg David Thomas & Jo Taylor 04/05/2006 Paperback 9780413775825 £8.99 $13.95 Mother Courage and Her Children Bertolt Brecht 04/10/2006 Paperback 9780713684667 £9.99 $14.95 My Mother Said I Never Should Charlotte Keatley 30/08/1994 Paperback 9780413684707 £9.99 $14.95 Oedipus the King Sophocles Angie Varakis 20/02/2008 Paperback 9780713686760 £8.99 $14.95 Oh What A Lovely War Theatre Workshop Joan Littlewood & Steve Lewis 19/01/2006 Paperback 9780413775467 £9.99 $14.95 Oleanna David Mamet 26/08/2004 Paperback 9780413773760 £9.99 * Our Country's Good Timberlake Wertenbaker Bill Naismith 14/08/1995 Paperback 9780413692306 £9.99 * Pornography Simon Stephens 02/01/2014 Paperback 9781408179857 £9.99 $17.95 Saved Edward Bond David Davis 23/05/2009 Paperback 9781408100103 £9.99 $14.95 Serious Money Caryl Churchill 28/03/2002 Paperback 9780413771209 £9.99 $14.95 Serjeant Musgrave's Dance John Arden Glenda Leeming 12/08/1982 Paperback 9780413492609 £9.99 * Shopping And F***ing Mark Ravenhill Dan Rebellato 02/06/2005 Paperback 9780413773739 £9.99 $13.95 Six Characters in Search of an Author Luigi Pirandello Joseph Farrell 04/03/2004 Paperback 9780413772688 £8.99 $13.95 Spring Awakening Frank Wedekind Charlotte Ryland 01/03/2012 Paperback 9781408140895 £9.99 $13.95 Strife John Galsworthy Non Worrall 12/01/1984 Paperback 9780413542700 £9.99 * Sweet Bird of Youth Tennessee Williams Katherine Weiss 17/08/2010 Paperback 9781408114384 £9.99 * The Beauty Queen of Leenane Martin McDonagh 28/02/2013 Paperback 9781408173831 £9.99 $17.95 The Caucasian Chalk Circle Bertolt Brecht Hugh Rorrison 12/07/1984 Paperback 9780413544506 £9.99 $14.95 The Cherry Orchard Anton Chekhov Nick Worrall 14/08/1995 Paperback 9780413695000 £8.99 $12.95 The Cripple of Inishmaan Martin McDonagh 18/06/2015 Paperback 9781472532282 £9.99 $17.95 The Crucible Arthur Miller Susan Abbotson 30/04/2010 Paperback 9781408108390 £8.99 * The Glass Menagerie Tennessee Williams Stephen Bottoms 15/10/2008 Paperback 9780713685121 £9.99 * The Good Person Of Szechwan Bertolt Brecht Charlotte Ryland & Tom Kuhn 30/03/2009 Paperback 9781408100073 £9.99 $14.95 The Government Inspector Nikolai Gogol Nick Worrall & Non Worrall 07/08/2003 Paperback 9780413773210 £9.99 $12.95 The House Of Bernarda Alba Federico Garcia Lorca Gwynne Edwards 03/09/2007 Paperback 9780713686777 £9.99 $14.95 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Patricia Hern & Glenda Leeming 17/09/1981 Paperback 9780413396303 £8.99 $12.95 The Last Yankee Arthur Miller Katherine Egerton 10/01/2011 Paperback 9781408123157 £9.99 * The Lieutenant of Inishmore Martin McDonagh Patrick Lonergan 19/05/2009 Paperback 9781408111079 £9.99 $14.95 The Lonesome West Martin McDonagh Patrick Lonergan 02/09/2010 Paperback 9781408125762 £9.99 $14.95 The Malcontent John Marston Simon Trussler & William Naismith 10/09/1987 Paperback 9780413162908 £9.99 * The Memory Of Water Shelagh Stephenson Steve Lewis 30/10/2008 Paperback 9780413776143 £9.99 $14.95 The Merchant Arnold Wesker Glenda Leeming 12/06/2003 Paperback 9780413516206 £9.99 $14.95 The Playboy of the Western World John Millington Synge Nick Worrall 14/04/1983 Paperback 9780413519405 £8.99 $12.95 The Price Arthur Miller Jane K. Dominik 10/01/2011 Paperback 9781408123119 £9.99 * The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui Bertolt Brecht Non Worrall 01/03/2007 Paperback 9780713685114 £9.99 $14.95 The Seagull Anton Chekhov 25/04/2002 Paperback 9780413771001 £9.99 $12.95 The Three Sisters Anton Chekhov 06/03/2003 Paperback 9780413771407 £8.99 $12.95 The Threepenny Opera Bertolt Brecht Ralph Manheim & John Willett 20/01/2005 Paperback 9780413774521 £9.99 $14.95 Top Girls Caryl Churchill Bill Naismith & Nick Worrall 15/07/2008 Paperback 9781408106037 £9.99 $14.95 Uncle Vanya Anton Chekhov 11/08/2005 Paperback 9780413774712 £8.99 $14.95 Yerma Federico Garcia Lorca Gwynne Edwards 20/02/2007 Paperback 9780713683264 £9.99 $14.95

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General Editors: Brian Gibbons, University of Münster, Edward II Revised ermaids Germany; William C. Carroll, Boston University, USA and Tiffany Stern, University College, University of Oxford, UK Christopher Marlowe A series of modernized and fully annotated classic plays, edited and updated by Edited by Stephen Guy-Bray experienced teachers who are internationally recognized as authorities in their field. Dramatically compressing the reign of Edward II and enlivening Ideal for, and accessible to, actors, theatre-goers and students, the books are in a the historical narrative with humour, romance, and horrific clear, easy-to-use format, with annotations below the text and a comprehensive violence, Marlowe interrogates how the transgression of introduction. accepted codes of behaviour affects even those at the highest level of society. This student edition contains a completely new introduction by Stephen Guy-Bray, and offers students a useful and lively overview of recent criticism, an updated performance history paying greater attention to Derek Jarman's film, a background on the author and themes, as well as an updated bibliography and a fully annotated version of the playtext. Stephen Guy-Bray is Professor and Head of the Department of English at the University of British Columbia, Canada.

UK July 2014 • US September 2014 168 pages

PB 9781472520524 • £8.99 / $15.95 Ben Jonson: Four Plays Individual eBook 9781472575395 • £8.99 / $13.99 Library eBook 9781472575401 • £27.00 / $43.00 Ben Jonson Series: New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Edited by Robert N. Watson Bringing together four of the most popular and widely studied of

Ben Jonson’s plays, this anthology focuses on the city comedies for which Jonson is best known today: The Alchemist (edited by Elizabeth Cook), Volpone (edited by Robert N. Watson), The Duchess of Malfi Bartholmew Fair (edited by G.R. Hibbard) and Epicoene or The Silent Woman (edited by Roger Holdsworth). John Webster Edited by Brian Gibbons Today Jonson’s works are widely considered to be amongst the best produced in his period. The new introduction by Robert N. Watson explores the plays in the context A major revision of this classic revenge tragedy. of early modern theatre, culture and politics, as well as providing a guide to the language, characters and themes. On-page commentary notes gloss the text in The comprehensive introduction covers recent developments greater detail, making this the ideal edition for study and classroom use. in criticism and key theatre productions, as well as relating the play to other early modern tragedies. The edition gives students Robert N. Watson is Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at the University of California Los Angeles, USA, and is a leading scholar of early modern drama. and teachers a reliable, annotated text and a stimulating overview of the play's context, critical perspectives and an exploration of its stage history. An invaluable resource for study and performance. UK July 2014 • US September 2014 744 pages Brian Gibbons is a distinguished scholar and editor of Shakespeare and other early modern dramatists. He is the author of many critical studies and a General Editor of the New PB 9781408179628 • £12.99 / $17.95 Mermaids and the New Cambridge Shakespeare series. Individual eBook 9781408179642 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408179635 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK February 2014 • US April 2014 192 pages PB 9781472520654 • £7.99 /$13.95 Individual eBook 9781472571595 • £7.99 / $11.99 Library eBook 9781472571830 • £24.00 / $39.00

Series: New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Four Revenge Tragedies The Spanish Tragedy, The Revenger's Tragedy, 'Tis Pity She's A Whore and The White Devil Women on the Early Modern Thomas Kyd, ANON, John Webster Stage & John Ford A Woman Killed with Kindness, Edited by Janet Clare The Tamer Tamed, The Duchess of Malfi, Meeting the needs of students to compare plays rather than simply studying one text The Witch of Edmonton in isolation, this is a collection of the four major tragedies from the early modern period ideal for students, with on-page commentary notes to deepen understanding Edited by Emma Smith and a comprehensive introduction giving valuable contextual and critical information. Janet Clare is Professor of Renaissance Literature and Director of the Andrew Marvell Centre This New Mermaids anthology brings together four plays which centre around for Medieval and Early Modern Studies at the University of Hull, UK. female characters on stage: A Woman Killed With Kindness (Thomas Heywood); The Tamer Tamed (John Fletcher); The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster); and The Witch of Edmonton (William Rowley, Thomas Dekker and John Ford), and has a new UK May 2014 • US July 2014 introduction by leading scholar Emma Smith. These four early modern plays upset 600 pages old certainties about gender ideology: less ‘chaste, silent and obedient’ and more PB 9781408159606 • £12.99 / $14.95 diverse, eloquent and complex. Individual eBook 9781472573575 • £12.99 / $20.99 Library eBook 9781472573582 • £39.00 / $63.00 Emma Smith is a Fellow and Tutor at Hertford College, the University of Oxford, UK. Series: New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK February 2014 • US April 2014 584 pages PB 9781408182314 • £14.99 / $15.95 Individual eBook 9781408182338 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781408182321 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Play Anthologies & New Mermaids • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Title Author Editor ISBN £ $ A Chaste Maid in Cheapside Thomas Middleton Alan Brissenden 9780713650686 £9.99 $14.95 ermaids A New Way to Pay Old Debts Philip Massinger T.W. Cruik 9780713637939 £9.99 $14.95 A Woman Killed With Kindness Thomas Heywood Frances E. Dolan 9780713677775 £9.99 $12.95 M A Woman of No Importance Oscar Wilde Ian Small 9780713673517 £7.99 $14.95 All for Love John Dryden N.J. Andrew 9780713671056 £8.99 $14.95 ew An Ideal Husband Oscar Wilde Sos Eltis 9781408137208 £8.99 $15.95 N Arden of Faversham Martin White & Tom Lockwood 9780713677652 £8.99 $14.95 Arms and the Man Bernard Shaw J.P. Wearing 9780713679984 £8.99 $14.95 Bartholmew Fair Ben Jonson Alexander Leggatt & G.R. Hibbard 9780713674279 £8.99 $14.95 Christopher Marlowe: Four Plays Christopher Marlowe Brian Gibbons 9781408149492 £8.99 $19.95 Doctor Faustus Christopher Marlowe Roma Gill & Ros King 9780713673760 £6.99 $14.95 Eastward Ho! Ben Jonson, George Chapman & John Marston Michael Neill 9780713639834 £8.99 $14.95 Epicoene or The Silent Woman Ben Jonson Roger Victor Holdsworth 9780713666687 £8.99 $14.95 Every Man in His Humour Ben Jonson Robert N. Watson 9780713643978 £8.99 $14.95 Gammer Gurton's Needle Charles Whitworth 9780713644975 £9.99 $14.95 Lady Windermere's Fan Oscar Wilde Ian Small 9780713666670 £8.99 $14.95 London Assurance Dion Boucicault James L. Smith 9780713626094 £9.99 * Love for Love William Congreve Malcolm Kelsall 9780713643237 £8.99 $14.95 Major Barbara Bernard Shaw Nicholas Grene 9780713679953 £8.99 $14.95 Marriage A-La-Mode John Dryden David Crane 9780713666663 £9.99 $14.95 Mrs Warren's Profession Bernard Shaw Brad Kent 9780713679946 £9.99 $14.95 Pygmalion Bernard Shaw Leonard Conolly 9780713679977 £8.99 $14.95 Saint Joan Bernard Shaw Jean Chothia 9780713679960 £8.99 $14.95 She Stoops to Conquer Oliver Goldsmith James Ogden 9780713667943 £8.99 $14.95 Six Elizabethan and Jacobean Tragedies 9781408107447 £12.99 $19.95 Tamburlaine Christopher Marlowe Anthony B. Dawson 9780713668148 £8.99 $14.95 The Alchemist Ben Jonson Elizabeth Cook 9781408110201 £8.99 $14.95 The Beaux' Stratagem George Farquhar Ann Blake 9780713670004 £8.99 $14.95 The Beggar's Opera John Gay David Lindley & Vivien Jones 9780713673821 £7.99 $14.95 The Changeling Thomas Middleton & William Rowley Michael Neill 9780713668841 £7.99 $14.95 The Country Wife William Wycherley Tiffany Stern 9781408179895 £9.99 $14.95 The Critic Richard Brinsley Sheridan David Crane 9780713631883 £8.99 $14.95 The Dutch Courtesan John Marston David Crane 9780713644753 £9.99 $14.95 The Importance of Being Earnest Oscar Wilde Francesca Coppa 9781472585202 £7.99 $13.95 The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe James R. Siemon 9780713677669 £7.99 $14.95 The Knight of the Burning Pestle Francis Beaumont Michael Hattaway 9780713650693 £8.99 $14.95 The Malcontent John Marston W. David Kay 9780713642889 £8.99 $14.95 The Man of Mode George Etherege John Barnard 9780713681932 £8.99 $14.95 The Old Wife's Tale George Peele Charles Whitworths 9780713642704 £10.99 * The Playboy of the Western World John Millington Synge Malcolm Kelsall 9780713643220 £8.99 $14.95 The Provoked Wife Sir John Vanbrugh James L. Smith 9780713666656 £8.99 $14.95 The Recruiting Officer George Farquhar Tiffany Stern 9780713673791 £8.99 $11.95 The Relapse Sir John Vanbrugh Bernard Harris 9780713628876 £12.99 $14.95 The Revenger's Tragedy Brian Gibbons 9780713682847 £7.99 $14.95 The Rivals Richard Brinsley Sheridan Tiffany Stern 9780713667653 £8.99 $14.95 The Roaring Girl Thomas Dekker & Thomas Middleton Elizabeth Cook 9780713668131 £8.99 $14.95 The Rover Aphra Behn Robyn Bolam 9781408152119 £8.99 $14.95 The School for Scandal Richard Brinsley Sheridan Ann Blake 9780713662900 £8.99 $14.95 The Shoemaker's Holiday Thomas Dekker Jonathan Gil Harris 9780713673784 £8.99 $14.95 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd Andrew Gurr & J.R. Mulryne 9781408114216 £7.99 $14.95 The Tamer Tamed John Fletcher Lucy Munro 9780713688757 £9.99 $14.95 The Tragedy of Mariam Elizabeth Cary Karen Britland 9780713688764 £8.99 $14.95 The Way of the World William Congreve Brian Gibbons 9780713666625 £8.99 $14.95 The White Devil John Webster Christina Luckyj 9780713681376 £7.99 $14.95 The Witch Thomas Middleton Elizabeth Shafer 9780713639452 £9.99 $14.95 The Witch of Edmonton John Ford, Thomas Dekker & William Rowley Arthur F. Kinney 9780713642537 £9.99 $14.95 Thomas Middleton: Four Plays Thomas Middleton William C. Carroll 9781408156582 £9.99 $19.95 Three Late Medieval Morality Plays: Everyman, Mankind G.A. Lester 9780713666618 £12.99 $14.95 and Mundus et Infans Tis Pity She's a Whore John Ford Martin Wiggins 9780713650600 £7.99 $14.95 Volpone Ben Jonson Robert Watson 9780713654332 £7.99 $14.95 Women Beware Women Thomas Middleton William C. Carroll 9780713666632 £8.99 $14.95

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rden Series Editors: Suzanne Gossett, Professor Emeritus at A Woman Killed With Kindness Loyola University, Chicago, USA; John Jowett, Professor of Shakespeare Studies, Shakespeare Institute, University of Thomas Heywood Edited by M. J. Kidnie Birmingham, UK and Gordon McMullan, Professor of English S at King’s College London, UK The most studied of Thomas Heywood's plays, A Woman Killed With Kindness explores the boundaries of marital punishment hakespeare Arden Early Modern Drama accompanies and complements the Arden Shakespeare and the moral weight of mercy. This major new edition of this Third Series, offering editions of non-Shakespearean Renaissance and Restoration startling domestic tragedy offers the standard, depth and range drama from the period 1500-1700. Modelled on the Third Series in appearance and associated with all Arden editions. The on-page commentary style, Arden Early Modern Drama editions offer high-quality textual scholarship, notes explain the language, references and staging issues posed together with an accessible, student-friendly introduction. by the text while the lengthy, illustrated introduction offers a lively overview of the play's historical, performance and critical contexts. This is the ideal edition for study and performance. M. J. Kidnie is a professor at the University of Western Ontario, Canada. She has edited several early modern works of prose and drama, and her research currently centres on live performance and adaptation.

UK October 2015 • US December 2015 240 pages PB 9781904271581 • £12.99 / $16.00 • HB 9781408129975 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781408151969 • £12.99 / $16.89 Library eBook 9781408151952 • £39.00 / $63.00 Series: Arden Early Modern Drama • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Macbeth Much Ado About The Two Noble Third Series Nothing: Revised Kinsmen, Revised William Shakespeare Edition Edition Edited by Pamela Mason Third Series Third Series & Sandra Clark William Shakespeare William Shakespeare Macbeth is one of Shakespeare's most performed and studied Edited by Claire Edited by Lois Potter tragedies. This major new Arden edition offers students McEachern This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know detailed on-page commentary notes highlighting Much Ado About Nothing presents a battle of the sexes Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on – John meaning and theatrical ideas and themes, as well as Fletcher – and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. an illustrated, lengthy introduction setting the play in more ways than one: as both a lightning-fast skirmish of wits between two famously disputatious lovers, and This revised edition includes a new introductory essay in its historical, theatrical and critical context and bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both the outlining the recent debates about Middleton's possible a near-deadly conflict built on conventions of gender and male rivalry. play's performance and critical history, and in particular co-authorship of some scenes. with current thinking about the nature of Shakespeare's Claire McEachern's new introduction brings this best- collaboration with other playwrights. As scholars have A comprehensive and informative edition ideal for begun to discover more about this aspect of his career, students and teachers seeking to explore the play in seller right up to date, analysing recent developments in criticism and the latest productions of this comedy. interest in the play has grown. This revised edition depth, whether in the classroom or on the stage. is ideal for undergraduate study, offering on-page Pamela Mason has worked with the drama classes at Claire McEachern is Professor of English at UCLA, USA. annotations to the play text as well as a lengthy, Wroxton Theatre Arts School, Cardiff, UK since 1986, and for illustrated introduction. much of that time was also a lecturer in English and Fellow UK September 2015 • US November 2015 Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English in the English of the Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, 376 pages UK. She works extensively in Stratford, contributing to Department at the University of Delaware, USA. PB 9781472520296 • £9.99 / $15.95 postgraduate courses, and she has initiated a postgraduate diploma in Shakespeare studies. HB 9781472520302 • £65.00 / $120.00 Individual eBook 9781474216098 • £9.99 / $15.99 UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Sandra Clark is Professor and Senior Research Fellow at Library eBook 9781474216104 • £30.00 / $48.00 440 pages the Institute of English Studies, School of Advanced Study, Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series PB 9781472577542 • £11.99 / $15.95 University of London, UK. Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare HB 9781472577559 • £65.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781472577566 • £11.99 / $18.99 Library eBook 9781472577573 • £36.00 / $58.00 UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series 352 pages Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare PB 9781904271413 • £8.99 / $17.00 HB 9781904271406 • £65.00 / $100.00 Individual eBook 9781408153741 • £8.99 / $11.69 Library eBook 9781408153734 • £27.99 / $43.00 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Title Editor Binding ISBN UK Price US Price rden A Midsummer Night's Dream Harold Brooks Paperback 9781903436608 £8.99 $17.00 All's Well That Ends Well* G. K. Hunter Paperback 9781903436233 £9.99 $18.00 Antony and Cleopatra John Wilders Paperback 9781904271017 £8.99 $17.00 As You Like It Juliet Dusinberre Paperback 9781904271222 £8.99 $17.00 S Coriolanus Peter Holland Paperback 9781904271284 £9.99 $17.00

Cymbeline* J. M. Nosworthy Paperback 9781903436028 £9.99 $18.00 hakespeare Double Falsehood Brean Hammond Paperback 9781903436776 £16.99 $19.95 Hamlet Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor Paperback 9781904271338 £8.99 $17.00 Hamlet: The Texts Of 1603 And 1623 Ann Thompson & Neil Taylor Paperback 9781904271802 £12.99 $22.00 Julius Caesar David Daniell Paperback 9781903436219 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry IV Part 1 David Scott Kastan Paperback 9781904271352 £9.99 $18.00 King Henry IV Part 2* A. R. Humphreys Paperback 9781904271062 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry V T.W. Craik Paperback 9781904271086 £8.99 $17.00 King Henry VI Part 1 Edward Burns Paperback 9781903436431 £12.99 $18.00 King Henry VI Part 2 Ronald Knowles Paperback 9781903436639 £9.99 $18.00

King Henry VI Part 3 Prof. Eric Rasmussen & John D. Cox Paperback 9781903436318 £9.99 $18.00 The Two Noble King Henry VIII Gordon McMullan Paperback 9781903436257 £11.99 $18.00 King John* E.A.J. Honigmann Paperback 9781903436097 £10.99 $18.00 Kinsmen, Revised King Lear R.A. Foakes Paperback 9781903436592 £8.99 $17.00 Edition King Richard II Charles R. Forker Paperback 9781903436332 £8.99 $17.00 King Richard III James R. Siemon Paperback 9781903436899 £9.99 $17.00 Third Series Love's Labour's Lost H. R. Woudhuysen Paperback 9781904271109 £8.99 $17.00 William Shakespeare Macbeth Pamela Mason & Sandra Clark Paperback 9781408153741 £8.99 $17.00 Edited by Lois Potter Measure For Measure* J. W. Lever Paperback 9781903436448 £8.99 $17.00 Much Ado About Nothing Claire McEachern Paperback 9781472520296 £8.99 $17.00 This tragi-comedy is one of the plays we know Othello E.A.J. Honigmann Paperback 9781903436455 £8.99 $15.95 Shakespeare worked with a collaborator on – John Fletcher – and is based on Chaucer's Knight's Tale. Pericles Prof. Suzanne Gossett Paperback 9781903436851 £9.99 $18.00 This revised edition includes a new introductory essay Poems H. R. Woudhuysen & Katherine Duncan-Jones Paperback 9781903436875 £9.99 $18.00 bringing the edition up-to-date in terms of both the Romeo and Juliet Rene Weis Paperback 9781903436912 £8.99 $13.95 play's performance and critical history, and in particular Shakespeare's Sonnets Katherine Duncan-Jones Paperback 9781408017975 £9.99 $17.00 with current thinking about the nature of Shakespeare's collaboration with other playwrights. As scholars have Sir Thomas More John Jowett Paperback 9781904271482 £16.99 $19.95 begun to discover more about this aspect of his career, The Comedy of Errors* R.A. Foakes Paperback 9781903436011 £9.99 $18.00 interest in the play has grown. This revised edition The Merchant Of Venice John Drakakis Paperback 9781903436813 £9.99 $17.00 is ideal for undergraduate study, offering on-page annotations to the play text as well as a lengthy, The Merry Wives Of Windsor Giorgio Melchiori Paperback 9781904271123 £10.99 $18.00 illustrated introduction. The Taming of The Shrew Barbara Hodgdon Paperback 9781903436936 £9.99 $17.00 Lois Potter is Ned B. Allen Professor of English in the English The Tempest Prof. Alden T Vaughan & Virginia Mason Vaughan Paperback 9781408133477 £8.99 $15.95 Department at the University of Delaware, USA. The Two Gentlemen of Verona William Carroll Paperback 9781903436950 £9.99 $18.00 The Two Noble Kinsmen Lois Potter Paperback 9781472577542 £11.99 $18.00 UK February 2015 • US April 2015 The Winter's Tale John Pitcher Paperback 9781903436356 £9.99 $17.00 440 pages Timon Of Athens Anthony Dawson & Gretchen Minton Paperback 9781903436974 £8.99 $17.00 PB 9781472577542 • £11.99 / $15.95 HB 9781472577559 • £65.00 / $100.00 Titus Andronicus Jonathan Bate Paperback 9781903436059 £8.99 $17.00 Individual eBook 9781472577566 • £11.99 / $18.99 Troilus And Cressida David Bevington Paperback 9781903436691 £9.99 $18.00 Library eBook 9781472577573 • £36.00 / $58.00 Twelfth Night Keir Elam Paperback 9781903436998 £8.99 $17.00 Series: The Arden Shakespeare Third Series Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare * Second Series Titles

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Paperback Hardback Title Author Editor ISBN £ $ ISBN £ $ A Jovial Crew Richard Brome Tiffany Stern 9781904271772 £12.99 $18.00 9781408130018 £65.00 $120.00 A Woman Killed With Kindness Thomas Heywood M.J. Kidnie 9781904271581 £12.99 $16.00 9781408129975 £65.00 $112.00 Everyman and Mankind ANON Douglas Bruster & Eric Rasmussen 9781904271628 £10.99 $17.95 9781408119464 £65.00 $95.00 Philaster Francis Beaumont & John Fletcher Suzanne Gossett 9781904271734 £11.99 $18.95 9781408119471 £65.00 $95.00 The Alchemist Tanya Pollard 9781472532596 £9.99 $17.95 9781472531995 £65.00 $112.00 The Duchess of Malfi John Webster Leah Marcus 9781904271512 £10.99 $17.95 9781408119488 £65.00 $95.00 The Island Princess John Fletcher Clare McManus 9781904271536 £15.99 $19.95 9781408130063 £65.00 $100.00 The Jew of Malta Christopher Marlowe William Sherman 9781904271758 £9.99 $17.00 9781408130001 £65.00 $120.00 The Renegado Philip Massinger Michael Neill 9781904271611 £10.99 $17.95 9781408125182 £65.00 $100.00 The Revenger's Tragedy Gretchen Minton 9781472520456 £9.99 $15.95 9781472520463 £65.00 $120.00 The Spanish Tragedy Thomas Kyd Clara Calvo & Jesus Tronch 9781904271604 £9.99 $16.00 9781408129982 £65.00 $100.00 The Tragedy of Mariam Elizabeth Cary Ramona Wray 9781904271598 £12.99 $19.95 9781408129999 £65.00 $100.00 The White Devil John Webster Benedict Robinson 9781904271741 £8.99 $17.00 9781408130032 £65.00 $112.00 Tis Pity She's A Whore John Ford Sonia Massai 9781904271505 £9.99 $16.00 9781408129968 £65.00 $100.00

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Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing Series Editor: Dympna Callaghan, Syracuse University, USA This series offers a new type of study aid, which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on the critical writing skills you need to develop in order to engage fully with Shakespeare’s texts. Each edition includes an introduction, considering when and how the play was written; a detailed examination and analysis of the individual text; discussion of performance history and critical reception of the work and a ‘Writing Matters’ section in every chapter that clearly links the analysis of Shakespeare’s language to student’s own writing strategies in coursework and examinations. hakespeare

S A Midsummer Night's Dream: Hamlet: Language and Writing Language and Writing Dympna Callaghan Heidi Brayman Hackel This lively and informative guide reveals Hamlet as marking a rden turning point in Shakespeare's use of language and dramatic The Language and Writing series offers a new type of study aid form as well as addressing the key problem at the play's core: A which combines lively critical insight with practical guidance on Hamlet's inaction. It also looks at recent critical approaches the critical and writing skills students need to develop in order to the play and its theatre history, including the recent David to engage fully with Shakespeare's texts. The books' core focus Hamlet he Tennant / RSC on both stage and TV screen. is on language: both understanding and enjoying Shakespeare's T rich and complex dramatic lanaguage, and the student's own Dympna Callaghan is William Saffire Professor of Modern Letters, Syracuse University, USA. critical language and how she can improve and develop this to become a critical writer. UK February 2015 • US April 2015 This lively and informative guide reveals A Midsummer Night's Dream as a play rich 192 pages in all types of language – figurative, gestural, gendered and idiomatic – and a play PB 9781408154892 • £9.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781472520289 • £30.00 / $52.00 in which language is misused, and an ideal play from which to explore Shakespeare's Individual eBook 9781474216036 • £9.99 / $15.99 imaginative and creative use of language as dramatic and poetic text. Library eBook 9781474216043 • £30.00 / $48.00 Heidi Brayman Hackel is Associate Professor of English at University of California, Riverside, Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare USA where she specializes in Renaissance literature and culture.

UK March 2015 • US May 2015 224 pages PB 9781408184530 • £9.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781472518378 • £30.00 / $52.00 Individual eBook 9781472503169 • £9.99 / $15.99 Library eBook 9781472503176 • £30.00 / $48.00 Series: Arden Student Skills: Language and Writing • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare and Theory Series Editor: Evelyn Gajowski, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, USA This series provides a comprehensive analysis of the theoretical developments that have dominated Shakespeare studies since the advent of postmodernism, as well as those that are emerging at the present moment. Each volume provides a clear definition of a particular theory; explains its key concepts; surveys its major theorists and critics; situates it in the context of contemporary political, social, and economic developments; analyses its significance in Shakespeare studies; and offers a wealth of suggested resources for further investigation.

Shakespeare and Economic Shakespeare and Psychoanalytic Theory Theory David Hawkes Carolyn E. Brown Over the last 20 years, the concept of 'economic' activity has Although psychoanalytic criticism of Shakespeare is a prominent come to seem inseparable from psychological, semiotic and and prolific field of scholarship, the analytic methods and ideological experiences. In fact, the notion of the 'economy' as a tools, theories, and critics who apply the theories have not discrete area of life seems increasingly implausible. This returns been adequately assessed. This book fills that gap. It surveys us to the situation of Shakespeare's England, where the financial the psychoanalytic theorists who have had the most impact had yet to be differentiated from other forms of representation. on studies of Shakespeare, clearly explaining the fundamental This book shows how concepts and concerns that were until recently considered developments and concepts of their theories, providing concise definitions of purely economic affected the entire range of 16th- and 17th-century life. key terminology, describing the inception and evolution of different schools of psychoanalysis, and discussing the relationship of psychoanalytic theory (especially Using the work of such critics as Jean-Christophe Agnew, Douglas Bruster, Hugh in Shakespeare) to other critical theories. It chronologically surveys the major critics Grady and many others, Shakespeare and Economic Theory traces economic literary who have applied psychoanalysis to their readings of Shakespeare, clarifying the criticism to its cultural and historical roots, discusses its main practitioners, and theories they are enlisting; charting the inception, evolution, and interaction of their shows how it can reveal previously unappreciated qualities of Shakespeare’s work. approaches; and highlighting new meanings that have resulted from such readings. David Hawkes is Professor in the Deparment of English at the Arizona State University, USA. It assesses the applicability of psychoanalytic theory to Shakespeare studies and the significance and value of the resulting readings.

UK March 2015 • US May 2015 Carolyn E. Brown is Associate Professor of English at the University of San Francisco, USA. 240 pages PB 9781472576972 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472576989 • £55.00 / $94.00 UK August 2015 • US October 2015 Individual eBook 9781472576996 • £17.99 / $27.99 192 pages Library eBook 9781472577009 • £54.00 / $87.00 PB 9781472503237 • £17.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472503244 • £55.00 / $100.00 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781474216128 • £17.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781474216135 • £54.00 / $87.00 Series: Shakespeare and Theory • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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Great Shakespeareans A rden Series Editors: Peter Holland, University of Notre Dame, USA, and Adrian Poole, Trinity College, University of Cambridge, UK NEW IN PAPERBACK! Key volumes of this prestigious international project are now available in paperback. The volumes cover the contributions made to the study, enjoyment and afterlives of Shakespeare by key critics, editors, actors and directors as well as novelists, poets, composers and thinkers from the seventeenth to the twentieth century. Each volume S includes:

• An assessment of the dual impact of Shakespeare on the figure covered and of the figure on the understanding of Shakespeare hakespeare • An overview of the figure’s intellectual or professional biography • An account of the wider cultural context, including comparison with other figures within the same field • World class contributors and editors

Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten Emerson, Melville, James, Great Shakespeareans Berryman Edited by Daniel Albright (Harvard University, Great Shakespeareans USA) Edited by Peter Rawlings (University of the

UK September 2014 • US November 2014 West of England, UK) 256 pages PB 9781472518514 • £23.99 / $39.95 UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Individual eBook 9781472557476 • £74.99 / $115.99 230 pages Library eBook 9781441124074 • £225.00 / $362.00 PB 9781472579492 • £23.99 / $39.95 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Individual eBook 9781441121073 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781441159793 • £225.00 / $362.00 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean Great Shakespeareans Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett Edited by Peter Holland (University of Notre Great Shakespeareans Dame, UK) Edited by Adrian Poole (Trinity College, UK)

UK September 2014 • US November 2014 UK September 2014 • US November 2014 240 pages 248 pages PB 9781472517289 • £23.99 / $39.95 PB 9781472518507 • £23.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781472538994 • £74.99 / $115.99 Individual eBook 9781472557469 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781441162960 • £225.00 / $362.00 Library eBook 9781441139917 • £225.00 / $362.00 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Marx and Freud Scott, Dickens, Eliot, Hardy Great Shakespeareans Great Shakespeareans Edited by Crystal Bartolovich (Syracuse Edited by Adrian Poole (Trinity College, UK) University, USA), David Hillman (King's College, Cambridge, UK), Jean Howard UK September 2014 • US November 2014 224 pages (Columbia University, USA) PB 9781472517296 • £23.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781441107503 • £74.99 / $115.99 UK September 2014 • US November 2014 Library eBook 9781441119568 • £225.00 / $362.00 240 pages Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare PB 9781472517142 • £23.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781472578563 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781441128010 • £225.00 / $362.00

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Voltaire, Goethe, Schlegel, Great Shakespeareans Edited by Mark Thornton Burnett (Queen's Coleridge University, Belfast, UK), Courtney Lehmann Great Shakespeareans (University of the Pacific, USA), Marguerite Edited by Roger Paulin (University of Rippy (Marymount University, USA) & Ramona Cambridge, UK) Wray (Queen's University, Belfast, UK)

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 UK February 2015 • US April 2015 224 pages 216 pages PB 9781472577184 • £23.99 / $39.95 PB 9781472579584 • £23.99 / $39.95 Individual eBook 9781472539120 • £74.99 / $115.99 Individual eBook 9781472539472 • £74.99 / $115.99 Library eBook 9781441175427 • £75.00 / $140.00 Library eBook 9781472539489 • £225.00 / $362.00 Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Series: Great Shakespeareans • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 31 studying Shakespeare

Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries Series Editor: Sandra Clark, Institute of English Studies, University of London, UK The Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries provide authoritative guides to major subject areas covered by the poetry and plays. The dictionaries provide readers with a comprehensive guide to the topic under discussion, especially its contemporary meanings, and to its occurrence and significance in Shakespeare’s works. Comprehensive bibliographies accompany many of the items. Entries range from a few lines in length to mini-essays, providing the opportunity to explore an important literary or historical concept or idea in depth. hakespeare S

rden Shakespeare's Books Shakespeare's Political and A A Dictionary of Shakespeare Sources Economic Language

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T Shakespeare’s Books contains nearly 200 entries covering the Shakespeare's plays are pervaded by political and economic full range of literature Shakespeare was acquainted with, words and concepts, not only in the histories and tragedies but including classical, historical, religious and contemporary works. also in the comedies and romances. The lexicon of political and The dictionary covers works whose importance to Shakespeare economic language in Shakespeare does not consist merely of has emerged more clearly in recent years due to new research, arcane terms whose shifting meanings require exposition, but as well as explaining current thinking on long-recognized includes an enormous number of relatively simple words which sources such as Plutarch, Ovid, Holinshed, Ariosto and Montaigne. Entries for all possess a structural significance in the configuration of meanings. Often operating by major sources include surveys of the writer's place in Shakespeare's time, detailed such means as puns, they open up a surprising number of possibilities. The dictionary discussion of their relation to his work, and full bibliography. These are enhanced by reveals the conceptual nucleus of each term and explores the contexts in which it is sample passages from early modern England writers, together with reproductions of embedded. The overlap between the political and economic dimensions of a word in pages from the original texts. Now available in paperback with a new Preface bringing Shakespeare's drama is particularly exciting as he is highly attuned to the interactions the book up-to-date, this is an invaluable reference tool. of these two spheres of human activity and their centrality in human affairs. Stuart Gillespie is Reader in English Literature at the University of Glasgow, UK. Vivian Thomas is a freelance lecturer for the University of Warwick and the Shakespeare Birthplace Trust, UK. UK January 2015 • US March 2015 544 pages UK January 2015 • US March 2015 PB 9781472572929 • £25.99 / $44.95 416 pages Individual eBook 9781474216067 • £25.99 / $40.99 PB 9781472573384 • £25.99 / $44.95 Library eBook 9781441194534 • £95.00 / $190.00 Individual eBook 9781474216081 • £25.99 / $40.99 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Library eBook 9781441151674 • £150.00 / $240.00 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

Shakespeare's Religious Language Shakespeare and Religion A Dictionary Alison Shell R. Chris Hassel Jr. This book sets Shakespeare in the religious context of his times, presenting a balanced, up-to-date account of current Religious issues and discourse are key to an understanding of biographical and critical debates, and addressing the Shakespeare's plays and poems. This dictionary discusses over fascinating, under-studied topic of how Shakespeare's writing 1000 words and names in Shakespeare's works that have a was perceived by literary contemporaries, whose priorities were religious connotation. Its unique word-by-word approach allows more obviously religious than his own. It advances new readings equal consideration of the full nuance of each of these words, of several plays, including Hamlet, King Lear and The Winter's from 'abbess' to 'zeal'. It also gradually reveals the persistence, Tale, and draws on under-exploited contemporary analogues, ranging from conversion the variety, and the sophistication of Shakespeare's religious usage. Frequent narratives, books of devotion and polemical pamphlets to manuscript drama and attention is given to the prominence of Reformation controversy in these words, and emblems. to Shakespeare's often ingenious and playful metaphoric usage of them. Theological commonplaces assume a major place in the dictionary, as do overt references to This study describes a writer whose language is saturated in religious discourse but biblical figures, biblical stories and biblical place-names; biblical allusions; church whose invariable practice is to subordinate religious matter to the aesthetic demands figures and saints. of the work. For Shakespeare, as for few of his contemporaries, the Judaeo-Christian R. Chris Hassel Jr. is Emeritus Professor at Vanderbilt University, USA. story is something less than a master narrative. Alison Shell teaches at University College London, UK, and currently runs the English Department’s MA in English: Shakespeare in History, and sits on the steering committee for UK January 2015 • US March 2015 the UCL Centre for Early Modern Exchanges. She is an editor for the Pontifical Institute of 480 pages Medieval Studies’ series ‘Catholic and Recusant Texts in Early Modern England’. She reviews PB 9781472577269 • £25.99 / $44.95 for the Times Literary Supplement, the Church Times and a number of academic journals. Individual eBook 9781472577290 • £25.99 / $40.99 Library eBook 9781472577276 • £78.00 / $125.00 Series: Arden Shakespeare Dictionaries • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare UK January 2015 • US March 2015 312 pages PB 9781472568175 • £18.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781408143612 • £18.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781408143605 • £57.00 / $92.00 Series: Arden Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare

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rden Shakespeare and Costume Shakespeare in London Edited by Patricia Lennox & Bella Mirabella Hannah Crawforth, Sarah Dustagheer Shakespeare and Costume is a collection of newly written essays by & Jennifer Young S leading scholars and interviews with leading theatre practitioners Shakespeare in London offers a lively and engaging new reading (including Joan Greenwood, Desmond Heeleu, Robert Morgan and of some of Shakespeare's major work, informed by close hakespeare Jenny Tiramani) that analyzes the role and use of clothing and attention to the language of his drama. The focus of the book fashion in Shakespeare's plays from the perspective of cultural is on Shakespeare's London, how it influenced his drama and studies, drawing on social, political, and gender influences. The how he represents it on stage. Taking readers on an imaginative books considers costume and dress from literary, dramatic, design, journey through the city, the book moves both chronologically, performative, and theatrical perspectives. from beginning to end of Shakespeare's dramatic career, and also geographically, Patricia Lennox is a faculty member at NYU Gallatin, USA, and lectures in London, Florence traversing London from west to east. and New York. Each chapter focuses on one play and one key location, drawing out the thematic is Associate Professor at NYU Gallatin, USA. She specializes in Renaissance Bella Mirabella connections between that place and the drama it underwrites. Plays discussed in studies, with a focus on drama, theater, performance and gender. Since 1987, Professor detail include Hamlet, Measure for Measure, The Merchant of Venice, The Tempest, Mirabella has directed and taught Gallatin’s Renaissance Humanities Seminar in Florence, Italy. She has received Gallatin’s Adviser of Distinction Award as well as NYU’s Great Teacher Award. King Lear and Romeo and Juliet. Close textual readings accompany the wealth of contextual material, providing a fresh and exciting way into Shakespeare's work.

UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Hannah Crawforth is Lecturer in Shakespeare Studies at King's College London, UK. 240 pages • 20 illus Sarah Dustagheer is Lecturer in Early Modern Literature at the University of Kent, UK. HB 9781472525079 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781472532503 • £64.99 / $100.99 Jennifer Young is Research Fellow at Anglia Ruskin University, UK. Library eBook 9781472532459 • £195.00 / $313.00 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare UK February 2015 • US April 2015 224 pages • 6 bw illustrations

PB 9781408145968 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472573728 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781408151808 • £16.99 / $22.99 Shakespeare on the Global Stage Library eBook 9781408151792 • £51.00 / $69.00 Performance and Festivity in the Olympic Year Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Edited by Paul Prescott & Erin Sullivan

Long identified as Britain's 'national poet', Shakespeare’s role in the 2012 London Cultural Olympiad confirmed his expanded status as a modern global icon. From his prominent positioning Shakespeare's Theatres and the in the Olympic Games' Opening Ceremony, Closing Ceremony Effects of Performance and Paralympic Opening Ceremony, to his major presence in the cultural programme surrounding the Games (including the Royal Edited by Farrah Karim-Cooper Shakespeare Company's World Shakespeare Festival, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre's & Tiffany Stern 'Globe to Globe' Festival and the BBC's Shakespeare Unlocked Season), Shakespeare played a significant role in the way the UK presented itself to its own citizens and to How did Elizabethan and Jacobean acting companies create the world. This collection examines the cultural forces at play in the construction, their visual and aural effects? What materials were available use and reception of Shakespeare during the 2012 'Olympic Moment', exploring what to them and how did they influence staging and writing? What his presence says about culture, politics and identity in twenty-first-century British impact did the sensations of theatre have on early modern and global life. audiences? How did the construction of the playhouses contribute to technological Paul Prescott is Associate Professor at the University of Warwick, UK, a specialist in innovations in the theatre? What effect might these innovations have had on the Shakespeare theatre reviewing, and a teaching associate for The Royal Shakespeare Company. writing of plays? Shakespeare's Theatres and The Effects of Performance is a landmark collection of essays by leading international scholars addressing these and Erin Sullivan is a Lecturer, Fellow, and the Distance Learning Co-ordinator at The other questions to create a unique and comprehensive overview of the practicalities Shakespeare Institute, University of Birmingham, UK. and realities of the theatre in the early modern period. Farah Karim-Cooper is Head of Research at Shakespeare's Globe, London, UK and the author UK January 2015 • US March 2015 of several critical studies focussing on performance. 256 pages • 10 b/w illus PB 9781472520326 • £18.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781472520333 • £60.00 / $104.00 Tiffany Stern is Beaverbrook and Bouverie Fellow and Tutor in English, University College, Individual eBook 9781472520340 • £16.99 / $22.99 Oxford, UK. She is a General Editor of the New Mermaids series and the author of several critical studies. Library eBook 9781472520357 • £16.99 / $27.95 Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare UK October 2014 • US December 2014

320 pages • 12 bw in-text illus PB 9781472558596 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781408146927 • £55.00 / $85.00 Transforming the Teaching of Individual eBook 9781408157053 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781408174647 • £60.00 / $96.00 Shakespeare with the Royal Bloomsbury Arden Shakespeare Shakespeare Company Edited by Joe Winston In 2006 the Royal Shakespeare Company began its mission to transform the teaching of Shakespeare in schools. This book tells the story of this exciting project – describing the innovative classroom practice that the RSC has pioneered and explaining what impact this has had on children's experience of Shakespeare in primary and secondary schools. Authoritative but accessible, it is relevant to anyone with an interest in the teaching of Shakespeare, and in how a major cultural organisation can affect the education of young people from a wide range of social backgrounds. It also benefits from interviews from internationally influential figures, notably Jonathan Bate, Michael Boyd, Catherine Mallyo and Jacqui O' Hanlon. Joe Winston is Professor of Drama and Arts Education at the University of Warwick, UK.

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Replay: Classic The Theatre of Theatre and tudies Modern Drama the Absurd Adaptation

S Reimagined Martin Esslin Return, Rewrite, Toby Zinman The ‘Theatre of the Absurd’ Repeat has become a familiar term Replay: Classic Modern Drama to describe a group of radical Edited by Reimagined spans over a century European playwrights – writers Margherita Laera of great theatre to explore how such as Samuel Beckett, Eugène iconic plays have been adapted Ionesco, Jean Genet and Harold Contemporary theatrical heatre and versioned by later writers to reflect or dissect the Pinter – whose dark, funny and humane dramas productions as diverse in form as experimental

T contemporary zeitgeist. wrestled profoundly with the meaningless absurdity of performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals the human condition. It is a testament to the power and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with Starting with A Doll’s House, Ibsen’s much-reprised and insight of Martin Esslin’s landmark work, originally adapting existing works by other artists, writers, masterpiece of marital relations from 1879, Toby published in 1961, that its title should enter the English filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring Zinman explores what made the play so controversial language in the way that it has. seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned and shocking in its day before tracing how later theatre and performance artists, Theatre and reimaginings have reworked Ibsen’s original. The Now available in the Bloomsbury Revelations series Adaptation provides an exceptionally rich study of the spine of plays then includes such landmark works with a new preface by Marvin Carlson, The Theatre of variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand as Strindberg’s Miss Julie, Oscar Wilde’s comic The the Absurd remains to this day a clear-eyed work of accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to Importance of Being Earnest, Chekhov’s Three Sisters criticism on a compelling period of European writing. stage adaptation, ranging from playwriting to directing, and Uncle Vanya, Hansberry’s A Raisin in the Sun, the Javanese puppetry to British children’s theatre, and Rattigan centenary revivals, Thornton Wilder’s Our Martin Esslin OBE (1918-2002) was a prolific dramatist, feminist performance to Japanese Noh. producer and translator, as well as being one of the most Town, ultimately arriving at Beckett’s Waiting for perceptive theatre critics of the 20th century. Godot. Taking each modern play as the starting point, The transition of an existing source to the stage is not a Zinman explores the diverse renderings and reworkings smooth one: this collection examines the practices and by subsequent playwrights and artists –including UK October 2014 the complex set of negotiations each work of transition prominent directors and their controversial productions 432 pages and appropriation involves. Including interviews with as well as acknowledging reworkings in film, opera PB 9781472577023 • £16.99 Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Handspring Puppet Company, and ballet.Through the course of this groundbreaking Individual eBook 9781472577030 • £16.99 Katie Mitchell, Rimini Protokoll, Elevator Repair study we discover not only how theatrical styles have Library eBook 9781472577047 • £51.00 Service, Simon Stephens, Ong Keng Sen and Toneelgroep changed but how society’s attitude towards politics, Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Amsterdam, the volume reveals performance’s enduring religion, money, gender, sexuality and race have World All Languages (excluding USA/Canada) desire to return, rewrite and repeat. radically altered over the course of the century. Margherita Laera is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the Toby Zinman is Professor of English, University of the Arts, University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Philadelphia, USA. UK August 2014 • US October 2014 UK November 2014 • US January 2015 296 pages 272 pages PB 9781408184721 • £22.99 / $39.95 PB 9781408182697 • £16.99 / $29.95 HB 9781472533166 • £70.00 / $120.00 HB 9781408182680 • £55.00 / $94.00 Individual eBook 9781472522214 • £22.99 / $34.99 Individual eBook 9781408182703 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781472522412 • £69.00 / $111.00 Library eBook 9781408182710 • £51.00 / $82.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Theatre and Applied Theatre Adaptation Series Editors: Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia and Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK The Applied Theatre series is a major innovation in applied theatre scholarship, bringing together leading international scholars that engage with and advance the field of S Return, Rewrite, Applied Theatre. Each book presents new ways of seeing and critically reflecting on this dynamic and vibrant field.olumes V offer a theoretical framework and introductory

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Edited by Margherita Laera Applied Theatre: Aesthetics Applied Theatre: Development Contemporary theatrical Gareth White Tim Prentki productions as diverse in form as experimental performance, new writing, West End drama, musicals Applied Theatre: Aesthetics re-examines how the idea of At once both guide book and provocation, this is an and live art demonstrate a recurring fascination with 'the aesthetic' is relevant to performance in social settings. indispensable companion for students and practitioners of adapting existing works by other artists, writers, The disinterestedness that traditional aesthetics claims as applied theatre. It addresses all key aspects: principles, origins, filmmakers and stage practitioners. Featuring a key characteristic of art makes little sense when making politics and aesthetics in a concise and accessible style designed seventeen interviews with internationally-renowned performances with ordinary people, rooted in their lives and to appeal both to those who have recently discovered this sub- theatre and performance artists, Theatre and communities, and with personal and social change as its aim. discipline and to experienced practitioners and academics. Adaptation provides an exceptionally rich study of the Yet practitioners of applied arts know that their work is not variety of work developed in recent years. First-hand reducible to social work, therapy or education. Part 1 is divided into two chapters. The first introduces the sub-discipline of Theatre accounts illuminate a diverse range of approaches to for Development, covering its origins, principles and history, and providing an stage adaptation, ranging from playwriting to directing, Gareth White's introductory chapters review the field and propose an interdisciplinary overview of theatre for development in Western contexts as well as in Africa, Asia, Javanese puppetry to British children’s theatre, and approach that builds on new developments in evolutionary, cognitive and neuro- the Indian Subcontinent and Latin America. The second focuses upon theoretical and feminist performance to Japanese Noh. aesthetics alongside the politics of art. The second part of the book offers fresh philosophical issues confronting the discipline and its relationship to contemporary perspectives through contributed case studies focused on a range of practices in politics, as well as considering its future role. The transition of an existing source to the stage is not a places as diverse as the UK, South Africa, Cambodia, Rwanda, and Jamaica. smooth one: this collection examines the practices and Gareth White lectures in applied theatre and community performance at Central School of Part 2 consists of seven chapters contributed by leading figures and current the complex set of negotiations each work of transition Speech and Drama, University of London, UK. He is also a director, performer and facilitator, practitioners from around the orld and covering a diverse range of themes, and appropriation involves. Including interviews with with a particular interest in processes and theories of participation and collaborative methodologies and aesthetic approaches. One chapter offers a series of case studies Socìetas Raffaello Sanzio, Handspring Puppet Company, processes. concerned with sexual health education and HIV prevention, drawn from practitioners Katie Mitchell, Rimini Protokoll, Elevator Repair working in Vietnam, Papua New Guinea, Southern Africa, and China. Other chapters Service, Simon Stephens, Ong Keng Sen and Toneelgroep include studies of intercultural theatre in the Peruvian Amazon; a programme of UK February 2015 • US April 2015 Amsterdam, the volume reveals performance’s enduring applied theatre conducted in schools in Canterbury, New Zealand, following the 2010 288 pages • 7 bw illus desire to return, rewrite and repeat. earthquake; an attempt to reinvigorate a community theatre group in South Brazil; PB 9781472513557 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472513878 • £60.00 / $104.00 and an exchange between a Guatemalan arts collective and a Dutch youth theatre Margherita Laera is a lecturer in Drama and Theatre at the Individual eBook 9781472507594 • £18.99 / $27.99 company, besides others. University of Kent, Canterbury, UK. Library eBook 9781472511775 • £81.00 / $130.00 Series: Applied Theatre • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Tim Prentki is Professor of Theatre for Development at the University of Winchester, UK, UK August 2014 • US October 2014 where he ran the MA in Theatre and Media as Development for many years. He is co-editor of 296 pages The Applied Theatre Reader and author of The Fool in European Theatre. He writes regularly on Theatre for Development for academic journals throughout the world and is a member of PB 9781408184721 • £22.99 / $39.95 the editorial board of Research in Drama Education. 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indispensable resource for teachers and researchers in the area.

The first section of the book details the history of the relationship between applied Applied Theatre: Resettlement theatre and research, especially in the area of evaluation and impact assessment, and offering an examination of the literature surrounding applied theatre and Drama, Refugees and Resilience research. The book then explores how applied theatre as research (ATAR) works as Edited by Michael Balfour, Penny Bundy, a democratic and pro-social adjunct to community based research and explains its complex relationship to arts informed inquiry, Indigenous research methods and other Bruce Burton, Julie Dunn & Nina Woodrow research epistemologies. The book provides a rationale for this approach focusing on This edited volume provides a series of studies of drama its capacity for reciprocity within communities. The second part of the book provides projects with young refugees completed in Australia to examine a series of international case studies of effective practice which detail some of the strategies and their impact, and offers a framework that the key approaches in the method and based on work conducted in Australia, New contextualises the intersections of refugee studies, resilience Zealand, Singapore and the South Pacific. The case studies provide a range of cultural and trauma, and theatre and arts-based practice. contexts for the playing out of various forms of ATAR, and a concluding chapter considers the tensions and the possibilities inherent in ATAR. Applied Theatre: Resettlement includes rich analysis of three aesthetic case studies in Primary, Secondary and Further Education contexts with young refugees. The This is a groundbreaking book for all researchers who are working with communities authors detail how each group and educational context shaped diverse drama and who require a method that moves beyond current research practice. aesthetic responses: the Primary school case study uses process drama; the Secondary Peter O'Connor is Associate Professor and the Director of the Critical Research Unit in school project focuses on Forum Theatre and peer teaching with young people, and Applied Theatre at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. His research interests centre on the Further Education case study explores work with unaccompanied minors and the application of drama pedagogy within wider social justice or public education actions. employs integrated multi art forms. His most recent work includes the development of the Teaspoon of Light Theatre Company as Michael Balfour is the Chair of Applied and Social Theatre in the Faculty of Education at a response to the trauma of over 3000 earthquakes in Christchurch. Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Michael Anderson is Associate Professor, Associate Dean and Head of Drama Education at Penny Bundy works in the field of applied theatre and drama education in the School of the University of Sydney, Australia. His recent publications explore how aesthetic education Education and Professional Studies at Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. is changing in the 21st century. These publications include Masterclass in Drama Education: transforming teaching and learning, Teaching the Screen, Film Education for Generation Bruce Burton is Chair in Applied Theatre in the School of Education and Professional Studies, Next (with Miranda Jefferson), Drama with Digital Technology (with John Carroll and David Griffith University, Brisbane, Australia. Cameron, Continuum, 2009) and Real Players: Drama, Education and Technology (with John Julie Dunn is Associate Professor at Griffith University, Australia. Carroll and David Cameron Trentham, 2006). Nina Woodrow is a PhD candidate at Queensland Institute of Technology, Australia.

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Critical Companions

tudies Series Editors: Erin Hurley, McGill University, Montreal, Canada and Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, Galway

S Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original research each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. In addition, each book features several complementary scholarly essays and interviews with practitioners to provide alternative perspectives on the subject.

British Theatre and Performance Modern Asian Theatre and heatre

T 1900-1950 Performance 1900-2000 Rebecca D'Monte Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr., Siyuan Liu & Erin B. British theatre from 1900 to 1950 has recently been subject Mee to radical re-evaluation: with plays from the period setting Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900 – 2000 is a ground- theatres alight and gaining critical acclaim once again, this book breaking survey, tracking the advent of modern drama in Japan, explains why. D’Monte presents a comprehensive survey of the India, China, Korea and Southeast Asia. It considers the shaping theatre and how it shaped the work that followed, considering: power of realism and naturalism, the influence of Western • The Edwardian theatre culture, the relationship between theatrical modernisation and social modernisation, and how theatre operates in contemporary Asian society. • The theatre of the First World War, including propaganda and musicals • The interwar years, the rise of commercial theatre and influence of Modernism Organised by period, nation and region, each chapter provides:·a historical overview of the culture;·an outline of theatre history;·a survey of significant playwrights, • The theatre of the Second World War and post-war period actors, directors, companies, plays and productions. Essays from leading scholars Penny Farfan, Steve Nicholson and Claire Cochrane give further critical perspectives on the period’s theatre and demonstrate its relevance to With contributions from an international team of scholars, this authoritative the drama of today. For anyone studying 20th-century British Drama, this will prove introduction will uniquely equip students and scholars with a broad understanding of one of the foundational texts. the modern theatre histories of Asia. Rebecca D'Monte is Senior Lecturer in Drama at the University of the West of England, Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. is Associate Professor of Theatre Arts and Chair of the Theatre Arts Bristol, UK. Her publications include Cool Britannia? British Political Drama in the 1990s, program at Loyola Marymount University, Los Angeles, USA. co-edited with Graham Saunders. Siyuan Liu is an Assistant Professor of Theatre at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada, and is currently the President of the Association for Asian Performance. UK April 2015 • US June 2015 Erin B. Mee is Assistant Professor and Faculty Fellow of English, Drama, at New York 272 pages University, USA. She is author of The Theatre of Roots: Redirecting the Modern Indian Stage PB 9781408165652 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408174920 • £50.00 / $86.00 (2008). Individual eBook 9781408166017 • £16.99 / $22.09 Library eBook 9781408166031 • £51.00 / $82.00 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama UK May 2014 • US July 2014 312 pages PB 9781408177181 • £17.99 / $42.95 • HB 9781408177198 • £65.00 / $112.00 Individual eBook 9781408177204 • £17.99 / $27.99

Library eBook 9781408177211 • £54.00 / $87.00 The Irish Dramatic Revival Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 1899-1939 Anthony Roche

This is a fresh reassessment of the work of the principal playwrights associated with the Irish Dramatic Revival, a The Theatre and Films of movement that was to radically redefine Irish theatre and see the birth of the world's first national theatre, the Abbey, Martin McDonagh in 1904. The work of O'Casey and Synge has had a profound influence on generations of writers and remains key to the Patrick Lonergan study of modern drama, while work by Yeats and Lady Gregory has received renewed This is a highly readable and illuminating account of McDonagh's attention among theatre makers and scholars owing to their radical innovation and career to date that will appeal to the legions of fans of his range. work for the stage and of his films Six Shooter and In Bruges. As a resource for students and practitioners it is unrivalled, From a consideration of the twin strands of Irish drama prior to the revival, Anthony providing an authoritative and enquiring approach to his work Roche considers the work of Synge and his experimentation in the creation of a new that moves beyond the tired discussions of national identity to national drama that drew on native sources while developing a modern and prophetic offer a comprehensive critical exploration. form of theatre. He explores the role of Yeats as founder and playwright; the role of women and in particular Lady Gregory as producer and dramatist; and the playwrights Lonergan provides a detailed analysis of each of his plays and films, their original who emerged following independence. O'Casey's ground-breaking Dublin plays receive staging, critical reception, and the connections within and between the Leenane detailed consideration, and the new Irish modernism that followed in the 30s and Trilogy, the Aran Islands plays and more recent work. It includes interviews with which also witnessed the founding of the Gate Theatre in Dublin. directors, designers and actors associated with his work and material from Druid Theatre Company, the RSC and the National Theatre. The Companion also features a number of essays from other leading scholars and contemporary practioners offering a variety of critical perspectives on this period of Patrick Lonergan is a lecturer in English at National University of Ireland, Galway. He writes radical change and development in modern Irish theatre. about theatre for The Irish Times and Irish Theatre Magazine. His first book, Theatre and Globalization, was awarded the 2008 Theatre Book Prize. He has authored two Student Anthony Roche is an Associate Professor in the School of English, Drama and Film at Editions of plays by Martin McDonagh for Methuen Drama. University College Dublin, Ireland. He has published widely on Irish drama and theatre in both the 20th and 21st centuries. Recent book publications include Brian Friel: Theatre and Politics (2011). UK February 2012 • US April 2013 304 pages PB 9781408136119 • £14.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781408160596 • £55.00 / $100.00 UK March 2015 • US May 2015 Individual eBook 9781408136126 • £14.99 / $22.99 304 pages Library eBook 9781408136133 • £45.00 / $72.00 PB 9781408175286 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408175279 • £55.00 / $86.00 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408166000 • £16.99 / $22.09 Library eBook 9781408165997 • $51.00 / $82.00 Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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The Theatre of Brian Friel The Theatre of Caryl Churchill

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Christopher Murray The Theatre of Caryl Churchill documents and analyses the tudies major plays and productions of one of Britain’s greatest Brian Friel is Ireland's foremost living playwright, whose work and most innovative playwrights. Drawing on hundreds of spans fifty years and has won numerous awards. Christopher never-before-seen archival sources from the US and the UK, it Murray's Critical Companion is the definitive guide to Friel's provides an essential guide to Churchill’s groundbreaking work work, offering both a detailed study of individual plays and for students and theatregoers. a richly rewarding exploration of Friel's dual commitment to tradition and modernity across his oeuvre. Each chapter illuminates connections across plays and explores major scripts alongside unpublished and unfinished projects. Each considers the rehearsal room, Beginning with Friel's 1964 work Philadelphia, Here I Come!, Murray follows a broadly the stage, and the printed text. Each demonstrates how Churchill has pushed the chronological route through the principal plays, including Aristocrats, Faith Healer, boundaries of dramatic aesthetics while posing urgent political and theoretical Translations, Dancing at Lughnasa, Molly Sweeney and The Home Place. Along the questions. But since each maps Churchill’s work in a different way, each deploys a way it considers themes of exile, politics, fathers and sons, belief and ritual, history, different reading practice - for many approaches are necessary to characterise such memory, gender inequality, and loss, all set against the dialectic of tradition and a restlessly imaginative and prolific career. Through its five interlocking parts, The modernity. It is supplemented by essays from Shaun Richards, David Krause and Csilla Theatre of Caryl Churchill tells a story about the playwright, her work, and its place Bertha. in contemporary drama. Christopher Murray is Emeritus Professor of English and Drama at University College, Dublin, R. Darren Gobert specialises in comparative drama, dramatic and performance theory, and Ireland, where he was the founder member and first director of the UCD Drama Centre the philosophy of theatre at York University, Canada, where he is Associate Professor in the offering MA and PhD in Modern Drama Studies. His many publications include Twentieth- Department of English and the Graduate Programme in Theatre and Performance Studies. His Century Irish Drama: Mirror up to Nation. He is chair of the board of directors of the Gaiety publications include The Mind-Body Stage: Passion and Interaction in the Cartesian Theater. School of Acting, Dublin. He is incoming editor of the journal Modern Drama.

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The Theatre and Films of The Theatre of Tennessee Jez Butterworth Williams David Ian Rabey Brenda Murphy With Butterworth's play Jerusalem having been a smash hit The Theatre of Tennessee Williams provides a stimulating in the West End and on Broadway, this is the first book to analysis of the work of this giant of 20th-century American examine all of his writings for stage and film and to identify theatre whose work remains central to curriculums and theatre how and why his work appeals so widely and profoundly. It repertoires. It combines an analysis of all of his work by contains interviews with those who have worked on his plays in American scholar Brenda Murphy with interviews and a number production, and examines the way that he weaves suspenseful of critical essays. The book is perfectly tailored to the needs of stories of eccentric outsiders, whose adventures echo widespread contemporary students and provides an authoritative and highly readable companion to this major social anxieties and involve surprising expressions of both violence and generosity. writer. Brenda Murphy is the Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English at the University Through detailed study of each of his stage plays and film scripts, Rabey reveals how of Connecticut, USA. Besides her many books and articles on American theatre, she is the Butterworth unearths the strange forms of wildness and defiance lurking in the depths editor of the Student Edition of After the Fall by Arthur Miller (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, and edges of England. The volume includes essays by James Balestrieri, Elisabeth 2011). Angel-Perez and Mary Karen Dahl.

David Ian Rabey is Professor of Drama and Theatre Studies at Aberystwyth University, UK January 2014 • US March 2014 UK, and Artistic Director of Lurking Truth/Gwir sy’n Llechu Theatre Company. His critical 320 pages publications include Howard Barker: Politics and Desire (1989, 2009), David Rudkin: Sacred PB 9781408145432 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781780930251 • £50.00 / $90.00 Disobedience (1997), English Drama Since 1940 (2003), Howard Barker: Ecstasy and Death (2009), and the forthcoming, Theatre and Time (2016). He has co-edited two collections of Individual eBook 9781408145333 • £16.99 / $26.99 essays, Theatre of Catastrophe (2006) and Howard Barker's Art of Theatre (2013). His plays Library eBook 9781408145326 • £51.00 / $82.00 include two volumes, The Wye Plays (2004) and Lovefuries (2008). Series: Critical Companions • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Methuen Drama Engage

tudies Series Editors: Enoch Brater, University of Michigan, USA and Mark Taylor-Batty, University of Leeds, UK

S Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume seeks to challenge mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives to the body of work under examination. Contributions to volumes will challenge existing critical paradigms and do so in an engaging and accessible manner that will open up fresh approaches and suggest avenues for further exploration.

Brecht in Practice Ibsen in Practice

heatre Theatre, Theory and Performance Relational Readings of Performance, T David Barnett Cultural Encounters and Power Bertolt Brecht's reputation as a flawed, irrelevant or difficult Frode Helland thinker for the theatre can often go before him to such an Second only to Shakespeare in terms of performances, Ibsen extent that we run the risk of forgetting the achievements that is performed in almost every culture. Since Ibsen wrote his made him and his company, the Berliner Ensemble, famous plays about bourgeois family life in Northern Europe, they have around the world. become part of local theatre traditions in cultures as different as the Chinese and the Zimbabwean, the Indian and the Iranian. The result is that David Barnett examines both Brecht the theorist and Brecht the practitioner to today there are incredibly many and different 'Ibsens' around the world. A play like reveal the complementary relationship between the two.This book aims to sensitize Peer Gynt can be staged on the same continent and in the same year as a politically the reader to the approaches Brecht took to the world and the stage with a view to progressive piece of theatre for development in one place, and as a nationalistic and revealing just how carefully he thought about and realized his vision of a politicized, orientalistic piece of elite spectacle in another. This book charts differences across interventionist theatre. What emerges is a nuanced understanding of his concepts, his cultures and political boundaries, and attempts to understand them through an in- work with actors and his approaches to directing. The reader is encouraged to engage depth analysis of their relation to political, social, ideological and economic forces with Brecht's method that sought to 'make theatre politically' in order to locate the within and outside of the performances themselves. innovations he introduced into his stagecraft. There are many examples given of how Brecht's ideas can be staged, and the final chapter takes two very different plays Through the discussion of productions of Ibsen plays on three continents, this and asks how a Brechtian approach can enliven and illuminate their production. book explores how Ibsen is created through practice and his work and reputation Ultimately, the book invites readers, students and theatre-makers to discover new maintained as a classics central to the theatrical repertoire. ways of apprehending and making use of Brecht. Frode Helland is Director of the Centre of Ibsen Studies, and professor of literature at the David Barnett is Reader in Drama, Theatre and Performance at the University of Sussex, UK. University of Oslo, Norway. He is in charge of the international research projects 'Ibsen between Cultures' and 'Ibsen in Use'. UK November 2014 • US January 2015 256 pages • 10 illustrations UK March 2015 • US May 2015 PB 9781408185032 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408183663 • £60.00 / $104.00 240 pages Individual eBook 9781408186022 • £16.99 / $26.99 PB 9781472513694 • £18.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408184974 • £60.00 / $104.00 Library eBook 9781408184387 • £51.00 / $82.00 Individual eBook 9781472514967 • £18.99 / $29.99 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472505002 • £60.00 / $110.00 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

Postdramatic Theatre and the Theatre in the Expanded Field Political Seven Approaches to Performance International Perspectives on Contemporary Alan Read Performance Theatre in the Expanded Field is a fiercely original, bold and Edited by Karen Jürs-Munby, Jerome Carroll daring exploration of the fields of theatre and performance studies and the received narratives and histories that underpin & Steve Giles them. Rich with interdisciplinary reference, international, eclectic and broad-ranging in its examples, it offers readers a compelling and provocative reassessment of the disciplines, one Is postdramatic theatre political and if so how? How does it relate to Brecht's ideas that spans pre-history to the present day. of political theatre, for example? How can we account for the relationship between aesthetics and politics in new forms of theatre, playwriting, and performance? Sixty years ago, in 1962, Richard Southern wrote a remarkable book called The Seven Ages of the Theatre. It was unusual in its time for taking a trans-disciplinary, The chapters in this book discuss crucial aspects of the issues raised by the new-historical and avowedly internationalist approach to its subject - nothing less postdramatic turn in theatre in the late 20th and early 21st century: the status of the than a totalizing view of its field. Theatre in the Expanded Field does not attempt audience and modes of spectatorship in postdramatic theatre; the political claims to mimic Southern's work but rather takes his spirit of adventure and ambition as its of postdramatic theatre; its ongoing relationship with the dramatic tradition; its frame for the contemporary moment of performance and its diverse pasts. Identifying dialectical qualities, or its eschewing of the dialectic; questions of representation seven ways of exploring the performance field, from pre-history to postdramatic and the real in theatre; the role of bodies, perception, appearance and theatricality theatre the book presents studies of both contemporary and historical works not as in postdramatic theatre; as well as subjectivity and agency in postdramatic theatre, a chronological succession, but in keeping with their coeval qualities, as movements dance and performance. or 'generations' of connection and interaction, dissensus and interruption. It does Karen Jürs-Munby is a lecturer in Theatre Studies at the University of Lancaster, UK. She this with the same purpose as Richard Southern's original work: to provide for the translated and wrote a critical introduction for Hans-Thies Lehmann's Postdramatic Theatre planning of responsive performance spaces 'now'. (2006). Illustrated throughout with line-drawings, Theatre in the Expanded Field is as richly Jerome Carroll is lecturer in German Studies at the University of Nottingham, UK. rewarding as it is ambitious and expansive in it vision. Steven Giles is Professor Emeritus of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of Alan Read is Professor of Theatre at King's College, London, UK. He was Director of the Nottingham, UK. He has contributed to Brecht on Art and Politics (Methuen Drama, 2003) as Council of Europe Workshop on Theatre and Communities, and Rotherhithe Theatre Workshop well as authoring books on Modern European Drama and Critical Theory. in the Docklands area of South East London.

UK December 2013 • US February 2014 UK December 2013 • US January 2014 336 pages • 5 halftones 296 pages • 50 illustrations PB 9781408184868 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408185704 • £65.00 / $120.00 PB 9781408184950 • £24.99 / $44.95 • HB 9781408185483 • £75.00 / $140.00 Individual eBook 9781408185162 • £19.99 / $27.99 Individual eBook 9781408183410 • £24.99 / $36.99 Library eBook 9781408185889 • £65.00 / $96.00 Library eBook 9781408185643 • £75.00 / $120.00 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Brecht On Theatre Brecht on Performance

Bertolt Brecht Messingkauf and Modelbooks S

Edited by Tom Kuhn, Marc Silberman Bertolt Brecht tudies & Steve Giles Edited & Translated by Marc Silberman, First published in 1964 and on reading lists ever since, this Steve Giles & Tom Kuhn edition of the seminal text Brecht on Theatre has been wholly revised, re-edited and expanded with additional texts, editorial Brecht on Performance: Messingkauf and Modelbooks presents material, and new translations. a selection of Brecht's principal writings for directors and theatre practitioners. The volume is in two parts. The first features an entirely Expertly edited by an international team of Brecht scholars, this updated third new commentated edition of Brecht’s dialogues and essays about the practice of edition provides readers with a clearer and more rewarding understanding of Brecht's theatre, known as the Messingkauf, or Buying Brass, including the ‘Practice Pieces’ work and writings, charting the development of his thinking on theatre and aesthetics for actors (rehearsal scenes for classics by Shakespeare and Schiller). The second over four decades. New features include over 40 new, previously untranslated essays, contains rehearsal and production records from Brecht's work on productions of Life new translations of many of the Brechtian texts featured, a clearer layout and of Galileo, Antigone, Mother Courage and others.Edited by an international team organisation of the text to facilitate study, and a revised selection of illustrations.. of scholars and including an essay by director and teacher Di Trevis examining the practical application of these texts for theatres and actors today, it is a wonderfully Tom Kuhn is Professor of 20th century German Literature at St Hugh's College, University of rich resource. The text is illustrated with over 30 photographs from the Modelbooks. Oxford, UK, and General Editor of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama's Brecht publications. Marc Silberman is Professor of German at University of Wisconsin - Madison, USA. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is acknowledged as one of the great dramatists whose plays, Steve Giles is Emeritus Professor of German Studies and Critical Theory at the University of work with the Berliner Ensemble and writing have had a considerable influence on the Nottingham, UK. theatre. His landmark plays include The Threepenny Opera and, while exiled from Germany and living in the USA, such masterpieces as The Life of Galileo, Mother Courage and The Caucasian Chalk Circle. UK November 2014 384 pages • 32 pages of B&W photos PB 9781408145456 • £18.99 • HB 9781472558619 • £60.00 UK November 2014 • US January 2015 Individual eBook 9781472558626 • £18.99 336 pages • 50 bw illus Library eBook 9781472558633 • £57.00 PB 9781408154557 • £21.99 / $37.95 • HB 9781472558602 • £65.00 / $112.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408159507 • £21.99 / $28.59 World English (excluding USA) Library eBook 9781472515438 • £66.00 / $106.00 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

Collected Short Stories of Brecht, Music and Culture Bertolt Brecht Hanns Eisler in Conversation with Hans Bunge Bertolt Brecht Hans Bunge Translated by John Willett & Ralph Manheim Translated by Sabine Berendse & Paul Clements Everyone knows that Bertolt Brecht was one of the great 20th- The Austrian composer Hanns Eisler was Bertolt Brecht's closest century innovators in theatre - the literary-theatrical equivalent friend and most politically committed collaborator. In these of a Picasso or Stravinsky - and Germany's greatest poet of the conversations with Hans Bunge which took place over a period last century, but the playwright was also a dazzling writer of of four years, from 1958 until his death in 1962, Eisler offers a stories. Storytelling permeated his art as a dramatist; fundamentally in his plays he compelling and absorbing account of his and Brecht's period of exile in Europe and was a storyteller. This volume collects the complete short stories written by Brecht, the USA between 1933 and 1947, and of the quality of artistic, social and intellectual including the prize-winning 'The Monster', and the fragmentary memoir ghost-written life in post-war East Germany. by Brecht, 'Life Story of the boxer Samson-Körner'. Brecht scholars Marc Silberman Brecht, Music and Culture includes a discussion of a number of Brecht's principal and Shuhsi Kao provide an introduction and editorial notes. plays, including Life of Galileo and The Caucasian Chalk Circle, considers the place of music in Brecht's work and discusses the time that Brecht was brought before The UK January 2015 • US March 2015 House of Un-American Activities Committee. It includes lively accounts of Brecht's 256 pages meetings with key cultural figures, including Arnold Schönberg, Charlie Chaplin and PB 9781472577511 • £14.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781472578204 • £45.00 / $78.00 Thomas Mann, and offers throughout a sustained response to the question of the Individual eBook 9781472577528 • £14.99 / $22.99 purpose of art in a time of political turmoil. Library eBook 9781472577535 • £45.00 / $72.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Throughout the conversations, Eisler provides illuminating and original insights World English into Brecht's work and ideas and gives a highly entertaining first-hand account of his friend's personality and attitudes. First published in Germany in 1975, and now published in English for the first time, the conversations provide a fascinating account of the lives and work of two of the twentieth century's greatest artists. Hans Bunge was assistant director and dramaturg at the Berliner Ensemble in Germany in

the 1950s and later became first director of the Brecht Archive. Sabine Berendse, the daughter of the late Hans Bunge, is a Librarian and Information Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life Specialist in Cardiff, Wales, and a freelance translator. Paul Clements was Principal of Mountview Academy of Theatre Arts in London, UK, for Stephen Parker twelve years until his retirement in July 2008. He has taught, acted and directed in the UK, Canada and Scandinavia. Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life is the critically acclaimed biography of one of the iconic cultural figures of the 20th century. Offering a fresh reassessment of the man and the UK October 2014 • US December 2014 artist, it masterfully reveals the complex strands of Brecht's life 312 pages • 5 b&w integrated against the backdrop of the tumultous events of his times. PB 9781472528414 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472524355 • £50.00 / $86.00 Individual eBook 9781472531599 • £16.99 / $26.99 Stephen Parker is Henry Simon Professor of German at the University Library eBook 9781472534415 • £51.00 / $82.00 of Manchester, UK. Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English UK February 2014 • US April 2014 704 pages • 2x8-page b&w plate sections HB 9781408155622 • £30.00 / $39.99 Individual eBook 9781408155646 • £29.99 / $45.99 Library eBook 9781408155639 • £90.00 / $145.00 Series: Biography and Autobiography • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 39 British Theatre

tudies British Theatre Companies: British Theatre Companies:

S 1965-1979 1980-1994 John Bull Graham Saunders Each volume in this series provides a survey of the political and Volume Two, 1980–1994, of the groundbreaking series Modern cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre British Theatre Companies surveys the period when Tory companies from the period, and detailed case studies of some cuts changed the landscape for theatre, but also when many of the major companies. companies made feminism central to their work, and new black heatre and Asian companies were established.

T Volume One: 1965–1979, covers the period often accepted as the ‘golden age’ of Following a socio-political analysis of the period, and a survey of its variety of theatre British Fringe companies, looking at the birth of companies concerned with touring companies, leading academics provide case studies of six of the most innovative and their work to an ever-expanding circuit of ‘alternative’ performance venues. important, including: Leading academics provide case studies of five of the most important companies, • Monstrous Regiment, by Kate Dorney including: • Forced Entertainment, by Sarah Gorman (University of Roehampton, London, UK) • 7.84, by David Pattie (University of Chester, UK) • Gay Sweatshop, by Sara Freeman (University of Puget Sound, USA) • Welfare State International, by Gillian Whitely (Loughborough University, UK) • Joint Stock, by Jaqueline Bolton (University of Lincoln, UK) • CAST, by Bill McDonnell (University of Sheffield, UK) • Theatre de Complicite, by Michael Fry • Portable Theatre Company, by Chris Megson (Royal Holloway, University of London, UK) • Talawa, by Kene Igweonu (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) • The People Show, by Grant Tyler Peterson Graham Saunders is Reader in Theatre Studies at the University of Reading, UK.

John Bull is Professor of Film and Theatre at the University of Reading, UK. UK March 2015 • US May 2015 400 pages UK March 2015 • US May 2015 PB 9781408175484 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408175491 • £60.00 / $110.00 400 pages Individual eBook 9781408175507 • £19.99 / $27.99 PB 9781408175439 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408175446 • £60.00 / $110.00 Library eBook 9781408175514 • £60.00 / $96.00 Individual eBook 9781408175453 • £19.99 / $27.99 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781408175460 • £60.00 / $96.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

British Theatre Companies: Played in Britain 1995-2014 Modern Theatre in 100 Plays Liz Tomlin Kate Dorney & Frances Gray This series of three volumes provides a groundbreaking study of Winner of the TaPRA David Bradby Research Award 2014, Played the work of many of the most innovative and important British in Britain: Modern Theatre in 100 Plays explores the best and theatre companies from 1965 to 2014. Each volume provides most influential plays from 1945 to date. a survey of the political and cultural context, an extensive survey of the variety of theatre companies from the period, and An essay on each period sets the context, while the commentary detailed case studies of six of the most important companies. accompanying each play illuminates the plot and themes, Volume Three, 1995–2014, charts the break up of many of the companies from the considers its original reception and subsequent afterlife, and finishes by suggesting '70s and '80s and details the emergence of new companies formed less on ideological other plays to explore. A rich selection of production photographs provide insight into grounds than aesthetic ones. stage and costume designs, and include iconic images from the premieres of plays such as Waiting for Godot and Look Back in Anger. Leading academics provide case studies of six of the most important companies, including: Published in collaboration with the Victoria & Albert Museum, fully illustrated with photographs from the V&A’s extensive collections and featuring a foreword by the • Graeae, by Colette Conroy (University of Hull, UK) late Richard Griffiths O.B.E., this book provides a sumptuous treat for theatre-lovers. • Blast Theory, by Maria Chatzichristodoulou (University of Hull, UK) Kate Dorney is Curator of Modern and Contemporary Performance at the Victoria & Albert • Suspect Culture, by Clare Wallace (Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic) Theatre Collections, London, UK. She has authored books on modern British theatre and the arts. • Punchdrunk, by Josephine Machon (Brunel University, UK) Frances Gray is former Reader in Drama at the University of Sheffield, UK. • Kneehigh, by Duška Radosavljevic (University of Kent, UK) • Stans Cafe, by Marissia Fragkou (Canterbury Christ Church University, UK) UK November 2014 • US January 2015 224 pages • 200 b&w and colour illus Liz Tomlin is senior lecturer in the Department of Drama and Theatre Arts at the University PB 9781472568670 • £16.99 /$29.95 • HB 9781408164808 • £25.00 / $40.00 of Birmingham, UK. Individual eBook 9781408177921 • £24.99 / $36.99 Library eBook 9781408189634 • £75.00 / $120.00 UK March 2015 • US May 2015 Series: Plays and Playwrights • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 400 pages PB 9781408177273 • £19.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408177280 • £60.00 / $110.00 Individual eBook 9781408177297 • £19.99 / $27.99 Library eBook 9781408177303 • £60.00 / $96.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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Stephen Joseph: Theatre Pioneer A Student Handbook to the Plays

and Provocateur of Arthur Miller S

Paul Elsam All My Sons, Death of a Salesman, The tudies A 1967 obituary in The Times labelled Stephen Joseph ‘the Crucible, A View from the Bridge, Broken most successful missionary to work in the English theatre since Glass the second world war’. This radical man brought theatre-in- the-round to Britain, provoked Ayckbourn, Pinter and verbatim Edited by Enoch Brater theatre creator Peter Cheeseman to write and direct, and democratised theatre-going. Now available in paperback, and This is the essential guide to Miller's most studied and revived dramas. Authored by with a foreword by Sir Alan Ayckbourn, this book investigates his forgotten legacy. a team of leading American scholars, it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on five of Miller's plays: Death of a Salesman, The Crucible, A View from Drawing on archival material (including letters from Harold Pinter, J. B. Priestley, the Bridge, All My Sons and Broken Glass. Peggy Ramsay and others), and on new interviews with figures including Sir Alan Ayckbourn, Trevor Griffiths and Sir Ben Kingsley, Paul Elsam demonstrates how the For each play the author provides a summary of the plot, followed by commentary on impact on theatre in Britain of manager, director and ‘missionary’ Stephen Joseph the context, themes, characters, structure and language, and the play in production has been far greater than is currently acknowledged within traditional theatre history - both on stage and screen adaptations; there are questions for further study narratives. and detailed notes on words and phrases in the text. With further questions that Paul Elsam trained as an actor at the former Manchester Polytechnic School of Theatre, UK, encourage comparison across Miller's work and related plays by other leading writers, and has worked widely as a performer in theatre, radio, film and television, including in this is the clearest and fullest guide to Miller's greatest plays. BAFTA and Olivier-nominated productions on stage and screen. He has directed professional actors and students in both the UK and the USA, often working ‘in the round’. He has held Enoch Brater is Kenneth T. Rowe Collegiate Professor of Dramatic Literature & Professor of teaching posts at the universities of Hull and Teesside, and at the Academy of Live and English and Theater University of Michigan, USA. Recorded Arts. He maintains a strong research interest in post-war theatre historiography, and in the praxis of actor training. UK September 2013 • US November 2013 272 pages UK September 2014 • US November 2014 PB 9781408184875 • £16.99 / $27.95 • HB 9781472514974 • £50.00 / $90.00 224 pages • 6 b&w integrated Individual eBook 9781408185681 • £16.99 / $24.99 PB 9781472586711 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781408185674 • £65.00 / $112.00 Library eBook 9781472514370 • £50.00 / $90.00 Individual eBook 9781408185377 • £18.99 / $27.99 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781472515506 • £57.00 / $92.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

A Student Handbook to the Plays The Methuen Drama Guide of Tennessee Williams to Contemporary American The Glass Menagerie; A Streetcar Named Playwrights Desire; Cat on a Hot Tin Roof; Sweet Bird of Edited by Martin Middeke, Youth Peter Paul Schnierer, Christopher Innes Edited by Katherine Weiss & Matthew C. Roudané

A Student Handbook to the Plays of Tennessee Williams provides the essential guide to Williams' most studied and revived dramas. Authored by a team of leading scholars, Unrivalled in its coverage of recent work and writers, The Methuen Drama Guide to it offers students a clear analysis and detailed commentary on four of Williams' plays: Contemporary American Playwrights surveys and analyses the breadth, vitality and The Glass Menagerie, A Streetcar Named Desire, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof and Sweet development of theatrical work to emerge from America over the last fifty years. Bird of Youth. A consistent framework of analysis ensures that whether readers want It covers the work of 25 major contemporary American playwrights, discussing more a summary of the play, a commentary on the themes or characters, or a discussion than 140 plays in detail. Written by a team of 25 eminent international scholars, each of the work in performance, they can readily find what they need to develop their chapter provides: understanding and aid their appreciation of Williams' artistry. • A biographical introduction to the playwright’s work Katherine Weiss is Associate Professor of English in the Department of Literature and Language, East Tennessee State University, USA. • A survey and concise analysis of the writer's most important plays • A discussion of their style, dramaturgical concerns and critical reception UK September 2014 • US November 2014 296 pages • A bibliography of published plays and a select list of critical works.Among the PB 9781472521866 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472521828 • £50.00 / $86.00 many prize-winning playwrights included are Sam Shepard, Tony Kushner, Individual eBook 9781472528728 • £16.99 / $26.99 Suzan-Lori Parks, August Wilson, Paula Vogel and Neil LaBute. Library eBook 9781472532442 • £51.00 / $82.00 Martin Middeke is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Augsburg, Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Germany. Peter Paul Schnierer is Professor and Chair of English Literature at the University of Heidelberg, Germany. Christopher Innes is a Professor of English at York University, Canada, and holds the Canada Research Chair in Performance and Culture. Matthew Roudané is Professor and Chair of English at Georgia State University, USA.

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turgy Affective Performance and Justice Performed Cognitive Science Courtroom TV Shows and the Theaters of Body, Brain and Being Popular Law

rama Edited by Nicola Shaughnessy Sarah Kozinn This is the first study of the reality TV genre of courtroom

D This book explores new developments in the dialogues between science and theatre and offers an introduction to a drama that traces its theatrical legacy, connecting the fast-expanding area of research and practice. The cognitive phenomenon of the daytime TV shows to a long history of revolution in the humanities is creating new insights into the theatrical trials staged to educate audiences in pedagogies of audience experience, performance processes and training. Scientists are collaborating citizenship. It examines how judge TV fulfills part of law's performative function: that and of providing a participatory spectacle the public can recognize as justice. with artists to investigate how our brains and bodies engage with performance to create new understanding of perception, emotion, imagination and empathy. Drawing on interviews with judge TV judges, producers and production staff, as well Divided into four parts, each introduced by an expert editorial from leading as the author's experience as a studio audience member, the book scrutinizes the researchers in the field, this edited volume offers readers an understanding of some performativity of the genre, the needs it meets, and the inherent ideological biases of the main areas of collaboration and research and charts new directions in the about race, gender and civic instruction that it exposes. relations between disciplines: 1. Dances with Science 2. Touching Texts and Embodied Sarah Kozinn is a Mellon postdoctoral fellow in the Department of Theater at Occidental Performance 3. The Multimodal Actor 4. Affecting Audiences College in Los Angeles, California, USA. She is a scholar of law and performance, develops tudies new works for film, TV and the web, and acts professionally in film, theater and television. Nicola Shaughnessy is Professor of Performance at the University of Kent, UK. She is Director

S of the Research Centre for Cognition, Kinesthetics and Performance and is leading the AHRC funded project 'Imagining Autism'. She is the author of Applying Performance (2012), UK January 2015 • US March 2015 Gertrude Stein (2007) and co-editor of Margaret Woffington (2008). 272 pages • 8 bw illus PB 9781472527844 • £19.99 / $34.95 • HB 9781472532343 • £65.00 / $112.00 UK December 2013 • US January 2014 Individual eBook 9781472526007 • £19.99 / $27.99 320 pages • 2 halftones Library eBook 9781472533838 • £60.00 / $96.00 PB 9781408185773 • £24.99 / $42.95 • HB 9781408183984 • £75.00 / $140.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408183694 • £29.99 / $45.99 Library eBook 9781408193150 • £95.00 / $145.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

erformance Performance Dramaturgy P Studies in Motion International Dramaturgy in New Dramaturgy Perspectives and the Making International Practices in the A User's Guide for Perspectives on Theory Twenty-First Century Theatre Practitioners and Practice Edited by Atay Citron, Katalin Trencsényi Edited by Sharon Aronson-Lehavi & David Zerbib Katalin Trencsényi & Performance Studies in Motion offers multiple Bernadette Cochrane perspectives on the current field of performance studies and suggests its future directions. Featuring Dramaturgy in the Making maps contemporary Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had new essays by pioneers Richard Schechner and Barbara dramaturgical practices in various settings of theatre- corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, and by international scholars making and dance to reveal the different ways that way we think about theatre and performance today and practitioners, it showcases the vitality and breadth dramaturgs work today. It provides a thorough survey has changed our approaches to theatre making and of the field today. of three major areas of practice - institutional, composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas production and dance dramaturgy - with each of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and Beginning with an overview of the development of illustrated by case studies that illuminate methodology physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance performance studies, the essays offer new insights into: and which will assist practitioners in developing their demand new approaches and sensibilities. contemporary experimental and postdramatic theatre; own ‘dramaturgical toolbox’. The volume features participatory performance and museum exhibitions; material from fifty interviews with experts such as New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on the performance of politicians, political institutions Robert Blacker, Jack Bradley, DD Kugler, Ruth Little Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new and grassroots protest movements; theatricality at war and Hildegard De Vuyst. Through these, a detailed and dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking and in contemporary religious rituals, and performative precise insight is provided into dramaturgical processes about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has practices in therapy, education and life sciences. at organisations including the Akram Khan Company, les been transformed. ballets C de la B (Gent), the National Theatre and the Included are studies from and about places as diverse Royal Court (London), the Schaubühne (Berlin) and The Edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane, as Austria, Belgium, China, France, Germany, Israel, Sundance Institute Theatre Lab (Utah). New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory Korea, Palestine, the Philippines, Poland, Rwanda and and Practice provides an unrivalled resource for Katalin Trencsényi is a London-based dramaturg. She was practitioners, scholars, and students. the USA. trained at the Academy of Drama and Film, Budapest, the is a London based dramaturg. She gained Atay Citron is Associate Professor, Department of Theatre, Guildhall School of Music and Drama, London, and the Katalin Trencsényi University of Haifa, Israel. EötvösLoránd University, Budapest. her PhD at the EötvösLoránd University, Budapest. is a lecturer, dramaturg and director Sharon Aronson-Lehavi is Senior Lecturer of theatre Bernadette Cochrane and performance studies, Department of Comparative UK January 2015 • US March 2015 based in Australia and the United Kingdom. She completed Literature, Bar-Ilan University, Israel. 288 pages her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. She PB 9781408155653 • £19.99 / $29.95 co-convenes the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy David Zerbib is Professor in the Philosophy of Art, Geneva Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre HB 9781472576750 • £60.00 / $130.00 University of Art and Design, Switzerland; Lecturer, Research. University of Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne, France. Individual eBook 9781408155677 • £19.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408155660 • £60.00 / $81.00 Series: Performance Books UK April 2014 • US June 2014 UK February 2014 • US April 2014 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 304 pages • 10 halftones 416 pages • 23 halftones PB 9781408177082 • £19.99 / $34.95 PB 9781408184073 • £22.99 / $39.95 HB 9781408177099 • £65.00 / $112.00 HB 9781408183168 • £70.00 / $130.00 Individual eBook 9781408177105 • £19.99 / $27.99 Individual eBook 9781408184134 • £22.99 / $34.99 Library eBook 9781408177112 • £60.00 / $96.00 Library eBook 9781408185759 • £70.00 / $130.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Bloomsbury Methuen Drama World English

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Acting Stanislavski Acting with Passion A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach A Performer's Guide to Emotions on Cue and legacy Niki Flacks John Gillett Acting with Passion draws heavily on the theories of mind-body psychology – that the release of chronic muscular tension can This is an inspiring and technically thorough practical book be accompanied by the release of emotions – offering actors

for actors. It sets down a systematic and coherent process for and the keys to demonstrating emotion on cue. Through a series of organic (from the inside-out/experienced emotion) acting. The physical exercises, actors learn to access feelings through the author offers a step-by-step, Stanislavski-based approach to body rather than the mind. text, role, and performance to be used in everyday work and gathers together the

essential tools that serve to recreate human experience. The book contains practical Beginning with the body as 'the instrument', Acting with Passion leads actors through exercises for the actor to work through sequentially. T a series of physical exercises combining movement, tactile exploration and vocal

John Gillett trained as an actor in the Stanislavski and Michael Chekhov techniques between release. Once physical blocks are removed, the actor then uses memorized text to echnique 1969 and 1971 and has worked widely as an actor in repertory, touring, small-scale and place the feelings where they belong. London theatre, radio, film and television. He has directed and taught acting in drama schools, was Head of the Post Graduate Acting Course at East 15 Acting School, UK, helped Written with her characteristic verve and accessibility, and using practical exercises to run two theatre companies and teaches acting training for professional actors. He is a to guide the actor through each stage, Acting With Passion is the result of Niki Flaks's member of Equity, and his website is www.gillettweb.co.uk. popular acting workshops. Niki Flaks is a director, actor, teacher and psychologist, whose career spans both sides of UK February 2014 • US April 2014 the Atlantic. Flaks is a frequent tutor at the Actors Centre in London’s West End and at the 344 pages • 20 illustrations Algonquin Theater in New York. Her very popular workshops in Paris led to her invitation to PB 9781408184981 • £16.99 / $29.95 be part of the prestigious faculty of European A.C.T. teaching actors in London, Paris and Individual eBook 9781408185735 • £16.99 / $26.99 Berlin. She has been an assistant professor of theatre at Southern Methodist University, USA, Library eBook 9781472517487 • £16.99 / $27.95 and holds a B.S. from Northwestern University, USA, and an M.S.W. from The University of Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Texas at Arlington, USA.

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New Dramaturgy International Actor Movement Voice into Acting Perspectives on Theory Expression of the Physical Being Integrating voice and the Stanislavski and Practice Vanessa Ewan & Debbie Green approach Edited by Written by specialist movement teachers, Actor Movement Christina Gutekunst & John Gillett Katalin Trencsényi & offers analysed practice and the precise detailing of the Offering a unique Stanislavski-based approach and combining movement experience: questions; examples and a breakdown Bernadette Cochrane the skills, experience and understanding of the authors, this of exercises, all supported by online video material and by a book describes how we can arrive at vocal production that is Recent shifts in the theatrical landscape have had glossary of terms, further reading and an appendix of source fully integrated within the acting process. corresponding implications for dramaturgy. The material. It provides actors' and practitioners' quotations, shares way we think about theatre and performance today images and diagrams and provides examples of practice. has changed our approaches to theatre making and Features over 50 illustrations of vocal anatomy and exercises by German artist, Dany Heck. composition. Emerging new aesthetics and new areas Actor Movement will inspire confidence in the actor to make fully owned physical of dramaturgical work such as live art, devised and choices and develop a love of movement. It provides the tools and the craft for Christina Gutekunst is currently Head of Voice at East 15 Acting School, UK. physical theatre, experimental performance, and dance the reader to interrogate these techniques and practices, and offers the actor John Gillett is an actor, director, teacher and the author of Acting on Impulse, revised in a demand new approaches and sensibilities. and movement practitioner ways of using their past practice fruitfully. It is also an new edition as Acting Stanislavski: A practical guide to Stanislavski’s approach and legacy essential new reference work to help establish an articulation of movement as a (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2014). New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on subject, translating the languages of other movement and dance practices to an Theory and Practice is the first book to explore new actor's language, and offering new vocabulary for movement and the actor. dramaturgy in depth, and considers how our thinking UK January 2014 • US March 2014 about dramaturgy and the role of the dramaturg has Vanessa Ewan is Senior Lecturer and Course Leader in Movement at the Central School of 408 pages • 52 line drawings been transformed. Speech & Drama, London. PB 9781408183564 • £16.99 / $29.95 Debbie Green is Senior Lecturer in Movement at the Central School of Speech & Drama, Individual eBook 9781408184509 • £16.99 / $26.99 Edited by Katalin Trencsényi and Bernadette Cochrane, London. Library eBook 9781408185445 • £14.99 / $24.95 New Dramaturgy: International Perspectives on Theory Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama and Practice provides an unrivalled resource for UK November 2014 • US January 2015 practitioners, scholars, and students. 320 pages • line art Katalin Trencsényi is a London based dramaturg. She gained PB 9781408134412 • £24.99 / $42.95 her PhD at the EötvösLoránd University, Budapest. Individual eBook 9781408166130 • £24.99 / $32.99 Bernadette Cochrane is a lecturer, dramaturg and director Library eBook 9781408166123 • £75.00 / $120.00 based in Australia and the United Kingdom. She completed Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama her PhD at the University of Queensland, Australia. She co-convenes the Translation, Adaptation, and Dramaturgy Working Group of the International Federation of Theatre Research.

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Actors and Performers Yearbook 2015 echnique

T Lloyd Trott

Actors and Performers Yearbook is an established and respected directory that enables actors to find work in stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on how to approach companies and

and individuals, saving hours of further research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies and photographers, Actors and Performers Yearbook editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable contacts for the actor.

Formerly known as Actors' Yearbook, Actors and Performers Yearbook features articles and commentaries, providing valuable insight into the profession: auditions, interviews and securing work alongside a casting calendar and advice on contracts and finance. This is an incredibly useful professional tool in an industry where contacts and networking are key to career survival.

The listings detailed in this edition have been thoroughly updated alongside fresh advice from industry experts.

erformance Lloyd Trott is the academy dramaturg at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA), London, UK. P

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Anatomy of Performance Training Encountering Ensemble John Matthews Edited by John Britton We train because we are human and we become human Encountering Ensemble, is a text for students, teachers, because we train. This is the surprising and original conclusion researchers and practitioners who wish to develop a deeper of Anatomy of Performance Training, in which John Matthews understanding of the history, conceptual foundations and shows how training is a very human response to the problems of practicalities of the world of ensemble theatre. It is the first having a body and living in the world. book to draw together definitions and practitioner examples, and combining historical and contemporary case studies with a wide Using illustrative case-studies of professional practice, each range of approaches and perspectives. chapter addresses a specific body part, offering a self-contained John Britton is Senior Lecturer in Performance at the University of Huddersfield, UK, Course discussion of its symbolic and practical significance in the artistic, and commercial,

Leader for the MA Ensemble Theatre: Training & Performance (a postgraduate degree based activities of training. round his unique training processes) and Artistic Director of DUENDE, an international T performance ensemble dedicated to developing interdisciplinary and intergenerational new echnique Ideal for readers seeking to understand the relationship the body has with the theatre work. John trains ensemble groups worldwide through his workshops in Mexico, Slovenia, and training, or for teachers looking for a new, innovative approach to performance, France, Germany, Greece, China, Portugal, Australia, India and the UK. John has extensive Anatomy of Performance Training – and its complementary video content – is an experience as a director, performer and writer of physical, interdisciplinary and text-based accessible, original contribution to the philosophy of training for performance. work. John Matthews is a performer and theatre-maker, and author of Training for Performance (2011). As Research Fellow of The Stanislavski Centre he taught at Rose Bruford College, UK UK August 2013 • US October 2013 and he now teaches students of theatre and dance at Plymouth University, UK. 472 pages PB 9781408152003 • £16.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781472538871 • £70.00 / $120.00 UK September 2014 • US November 2014 Individual eBook 9781408155172 • £14.99 / $22.99 224 pages Library eBook 9781408155189 • £45.00 / $72.00 PB 9781408184059 • £24.99 / $42.95 • HB 9781408184103 • £120.00 / $206.00 Series: Performance Books • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781408185957 • £16.99 / $26.99 Library eBook 9781408185056 • £60.00 / $96.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

From Stage to Screen Physical Expression on Stage and Bill Britten Screen The camera enables us to see right into a character’s soul, Using the Alexander Technique to Create revealing their innermost thoughts and emotions. Screen acting requires a more rigorously truthful and spontaneous Unforgettable Performances performance than the stage, as well as very different Bill Connington technical expertise. From Stage to Screen is a handbook for the professional actor packed with advice on how to make the In this book, Bill Connington shows the reader how the transition from their stage training and career and fully prepare Alexander technique will allow them to perform more easily for a TV or film role. and more naturally: from breathing more freely, and speaking more fluidly to moving more lightly and gracefully, releasing the best possible performance from your body Written by Bill Britten, the Head of Screen Acting and Directing at the Drama Centre, and mind. This is a straightforward, easy-to-read and easy-to-understand handbook London, UK, From Stage to Screen examines the actors’ internal resources – the for the student actor and the working actor. skills and abilities the trained stage actor already has – allowing them to successfully transfer their skills from the stage to the screen. Bill Connington has devoted his career to helping performers—including Broadway actors, Metropolitan Opera singers, and renowned instrumentalists—manage their art through Bill Britten is Head of Screen Acting and Directing at the Drama Centre, London, UK. Outside managing themselves. The former chairman of the board of the American Center for the the Drama Centre he coaches performers from other disciplines wanting to move into acting. Alexander Technique, Bill is currently a lecturer in acting at the Yale School of Drama and He also regularly runs development classes for professional actors at the Actors Centre. has taught performers at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, the Juilliard School, and the Actors Studio MFA Program, all in the USA. UK November 2014 • US January 2015 256 pages UK June 2014 • US August 2014 PB 9781408185469 • £14.99 / £25.95 200 pages Individual eBook 9781408184905 • £14.99 / $22.99 PB 9781408182642 • £14.99 / $25.95 Library eBook 9781472522641 • £14.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781408182666 • £14.99 / $22.99 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781408182659 • £45.00 / $72.00 Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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The Actor Speaks Popular Singing and Style Voice and the Performer 2nd edition echnique

T Patsy Rodenburg Donna Soto-Morettini

Beginning with what every first-year acting student faces in This second edition of the highly successful Popular Singing class and ending with what leading professional actors must serves as a practical guide to exploring the singing voice while achieve every night on the three stages of the Royal National helping to enhance vocal confidence in a range of popular Theatre, Patsy Rodenburg's celebrated work as one of the styles. The book provides effective alternatives to traditional and

world's foremost voice and acting coaches is fully revealed voice training methods, and demonstrates how these methods in this thoughtful and inspirational book about the process of can be used to create a flexible and unique sound. acting. Through a seven-step process, she takes the actor through an intensive voice and speech workshop tackling the vexing problems faced in rehearsal and on stage: This updated and thoroughly revised edition features a new chapter on training for breathing and relaxation; vocal range and power, communication with other actors popular singing, which incorporates recent movements in teaching the discipline and the audience; integrating movement, singing and speaking; deciphering and across the globe, taking into account recent developments in the area. The book also animating a text; adjusting voice to different size stages and auditoria; working in features a new section on 'bridging' - ie. using all the technical elements outlined mediums beyond the stage; sustaining a performance through an entire evening and in the book to help the singer find their own particular expressive style to inspire a long run and identifying and overcoming the countless potential problems that face more playfulness and creativity, both for the individual singer and for the teacher in every performer who works in front of an audience. practice and performance. Patsy Rodenburg is Director of Voice at London's Royal National Theatre and Guildhall School Donna Soto-Morettini has been auditioning and training performers for over two decades. of Music, UK. She has served as Director of Drama for the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama, UK, Head of Acting and Dance for Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts, UK, and Head of Acting at the Central School of Speech and Drama, UK. She also has extensive television erformance UK 1997 • US April 2014 experience, having worked as a Casting Director and Performance Coach for How Do You P 416 pages Solve a Problem like Maria, Any Dream Will Do, I'd Do Anything, and Over the Rainbow for PB 9780413700308 • £14.99 / $29.95 BBC; as Performance Coach for ITV's Pop Star to Opera Star and as Casting Director for BBC's Bloomsbury Methuen Drama The Voice.

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RADA Guides RADA Guides provide students and teachers with practical workbooks on all aspects of drama training, from movement to narrative, from voice to dance. Drawing on the expertise of the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art's world-class teachers, each volume provides students with the essence of one facet of learning to be an actor. In addition, volumes are often supplemented with illustrations and video content to further enhance the learning experience both in the classroom and in private study.

Dramatic Dance Singing on Stage Genre: A Guide to and An Actor's Approach to An Actor's Guide Writing for Stage Dance as a Dramatic Jane Streeton and Screen Art & Philip Raymond Andrew Tidmarsh T

Darren Royston Singing on Stage, by two echnique Genre is a practical guide experienced singing tutors at Dramatic Dance sets a programme exploring the ingredients and the Royal Academy of Dramatic for actors to perform dance history of the basic elements of Arts, helps the actor to develop as part of the drama, offering all dramatic narrative. It deals in singing skills both musically and vocally for the purpose several approaches which can contribute to developing turn with the fundamental building blocks of different of acting. It is packed with practical exercises to this understanding, to training this skill, and always types of story, giving readers a complete picture, develop the actor's skills and aid practice including ensuring that the whole active and thinking body and rather than a narrow focus on one genre or another. investigations into and overviews of the process mind are fully engaged with the task of making dance Attractively presented and easy to read, this is sure to of singing theatrically, the elements of technique, an integral and vital part of theatre. Author Darren be a hit with budding writers, or those adapting to a musicianship, how to learn a song, practical techniques Royston shows that to study dance in this way allows new style of writing. and choosing your repertoire. students to develop further their understanding of logic Andrew Tidmarsh is a writer, theatre director Jane Streeton studied at the Royal College of Music, UK, and structure in a dramatic text. and awardwinning film-maker. He has worked with and is a soprano soloist in opera and concert internationally. undergraduate and postgraduate writers for nearly 20 years Darren Royston is a Dance and Movement Tutor and Jane has worked as singing coach and vocal adviser for for various institutions in the UK: Goldsmiths, University Choreographer at RADA, UK, and the Artistic Director and film and with the BBC, in West End Musicals, at the RSC, of London, Drama Centre, University of the Arts, and the Choreographer for Nonsuch History and Dance. He is council the National Theatre and Shakespeare’s Globe. She is Co- Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He has also worked in the member of many professional organizations including ordinator of the Singing Team and Course Leader for the Philippines, Germany and Canada. He currently teaches and The Laban Guild for Movement and Dance, The European Musical Theatre Short Courses at RADA. Association of Dance Historians, DANCE UK Choreographers’ directs at RADA. Forum and the Early Dance Circle (UK) and a member of Philip Raymond studied at the Royal College of Music, UK. He has been a tenor soloist in recital, oratorio and opera UNESCO International Council for Dance. UK May 2014 • US July 2014 in the UK and abroad. He was Head of Music at the Webber Douglas Academy of Dramatic Art and currently teaches 112 pages UK April 2014 • US June 2014 singing on the BA, MA Theatre Lab and Foundation Courses PB 9781408185827 • £12.99 / $22.95 168 pages at RADA. Individual eBook 9781472535122 • £12.99 / $20.99 PB 9781408173817 • £14.99 / $25.95 Library eBook 9781408184936 • £19.99 / $29.95 Individual eBook 9781780933153 • £14.99 / $22.99 Series: RADA Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781780933146 • £45.00 / $72.00 UK May 2014 • US July 2014 Series: RADA Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama 176 pages • 25 halftones PB 9781408145470 • £14.99 / $25.95 Individual eBook 9781408145340 • £14.99 / $22.99 Library eBook 9781472520678 • £45.00 / $72.00 Series: RADA Guides • Bloomsbury Methuen Drama

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index Brecht on Performance...... 39 Cripple of Inishmaan, The...... 14 A Brecht On Theatre...... 39 Curious Directive...... 15 Acting Stanislavski...... 43 Brecht, Bertolt ...... 3, 15, 22, 39 Acting with Passion ...... 43 Brecht, Music and Culture...... 39 D Actor Movement ...... 43 Brenton, Howard ...... 17, 18 Dark Vanilla Jungle and other monologues...... 6 Actor Speaks, The ...... 46 Brief Encounter...... 4 De-lahay, Rachel ...... 5, 12, 21 Actors and Performers Yearbook 2015 ...... 44 Brilliant Adventures...... 5 Delaney, Shelagh ...... 3 Advice for the Young at Heart ...... 3 British Theatre and Performance 1900-1950...... 36 Desolate Heaven ...... 6 Aeschylus...... 16 British Theatre Companies: 1965-1979...... 40 Di and Viv and Rose ...... 6 Affective Performance and Cognitive Science. . . . . 42 British Theatre Companies: 1980-1994...... 40 Dirty Great Love Story ...... 6 Akhtar, Ayad ...... 6 British Theatre Companies: 1995-2014...... 40 Disgraced...... 6 Al Bassam, Sulayman ...... 22 Britten, Bill ...... 45 Ditch...... 7 Albright, Daniel ...... 31 Britton, John ...... 45 D'Monte, Rebecca ...... 36 Alice's Adventures in Wonderland...... 3 Bruce, Deborah ...... 20 Doll's House, A...... 3 al-Shaykh, Hanan ...... 10 Bull, John ...... 40 Donoghue, Vickie ...... 14 An August Bank Holiday Lark ...... 3 Bullmore, Amelia ...... 6 Dormer, Richard ...... 7, 21 Anatomy of Performance Training...... 45 Bundy, Penny ...... 35 Dorney, Kate ...... 40 Ancient Lights...... 3 Bunge, Hans ...... 39 Dramatic Dance...... 47 Anderson, Michael ...... 35 Burning Monkey...... 5 Dramaturgy in the Making...... 42 Applied Theatre: Aesthetics...... 35 Burns, Sam ...... 10 Drum Belly...... 7 Applied Theatre: Development...... 35 Burton, Bruce ...... 35 Drummond, Rob ...... 11, 21 Applied Theatre: Research...... 35 Duchess of Malfi, The...... 25 Applied Theatre: Resettlement ...... 35 C Dungan, Ross ...... 15 Arab Shakespeare Trilogy, The ...... 22 Callaghan, Dympna...... 30 Dunn, Julie ...... 35 Aronson-Lehavi, Sharon ...... 42 Cameron, Mark ...... 13 Dustagheer, Sarah ...... 33 Arrival, The ...... 14 Candide...... 5 Cannibals...... 5 E B Can't Forget About You...... 5 E. Brown, Carolyn ...... 30 Balfour, Michael ...... 35 Captain Amazing ...... 5 Edward II Revised...... 25 Banks, Anthony ...... 20 Carroll, Jerome ...... 38 Eisler, Hanns ...... 39 Bano, Alia ...... 21 Carroll, Lewis ...... 3 Elsam, Paul ...... 41 Barking in Essex...... 3 Casualties...... 5 Emerson, Melville, James, Berryman...... 31 Barnett, David ...... 22, 38 Cement Garden, The...... 14 Encountering Ensemble...... 45 Bartlett, Mike ...... 16, 17 Chakrabarti, Lolita ...... 12 Enron...... 23 Bartolovich, Crystal ...... 31 Cheviot, the Stag and the Black, Black Oil, The. . . . .23 Entertaining Mr Sloane...... 7 Beaton, Alistair ...... 15, 21 Chikura, Denton ...... 14 Epic Adventure of Nhamo the Manyika Warrior and his Sexy Wife Chipo, The...... 14 Belling, Larry ...... 13 Children & Have I None, The ...... 14 Ericson, Ross ...... 5 Ben Jonson: Four Plays...... 25 Circles...... 5 Esslin, Martin ...... 34 Berendse, Sabine ...... 39 Citizenship...... 17 Europa...... 7 Berliner Ensemble Adaptations...... 22 Citron, Atay ...... 42 Even Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Wall. . . . 7 Berlioz, Verdi, Wagner, Britten...... 31 City Love ...... 6 Ewan, Vanessa ...... 43 Bertolt Brecht: A Literary Life...... 39 Clare, Janet ...... 25 Exton, Clive ...... 3 Best Man ...... 4 Clark, Sandra ...... 28 Bhuchar, Sudha ...... 10 Clean Collection: Plays and Poems, The...... 14 F Billy the Girl...... 4 Clements, Paul ...... 39 Fairbanks, Tash ...... 7 Birch, Brad ...... 7 Clements, Rachel ...... 23 First World War Plays...... 22 Birdland...... 4 Cochrane, Bernadette...... 42 Flacks, Niki ...... 43 Black Jesus...... 4 Collected Short Stories of Bertolt Brecht...... 39 Fog ...... 7 Blindsided...... 4 Connington, Bill...... 45 For Once...... 7 Blithe Spirit ...... 4 Conservatory...... 6 Ford, John ...... 25 Bluebeard...... 4 Contemporary English Plays...... 21 Four Revenge Tragedies...... 25 Bond Plays: 7...... 19 Contemporary Irish Plays...... 21 Franceschild, Donna ...... 13 Bond Plays: 9...... 19 Contemporary Scottish Plays ...... 21 French, Robin ...... 8 Bond, Edward ...... 14, 19 Contemporary Welsh Plays...... 21 From Stage to Screen...... 45 Bond, Jez ...... 13 Cooper, Farah Karim ...... 33 Bonna, Katie ...... 6 Coriolanus ...... 6 G Boyd, William ...... 9 Corrie, Joe ...... 9 Garrick, Kemble, Siddons, Kean ...... 31 Brahmachari, Sita ...... 14 Cow Play, The...... 14 Genre: A Guide to Writing for Stage and Screen...... 47 Brater, Enoch ...... 41 Coward, Noël ...... 4, 11, 16 Gibbons, Brian ...... 25 Brayman Hackel, Heidi ...... 30 Cowhig, Frances Ya-Chu ...... 16 Giles, Steve ...... 38, 39

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Gillespie, Stuart ...... 32 Jonathan Sayer ...... 11, 15 McGrath, John ...... 23 Gillett, John ...... 43 Jonson, Ben ...... 25 McLynn, Pauline ...... 20 Gionfriddo, Gina ...... 11 Josephine and I...... 9 Mee, Erin B...... 36 Gobert, R. Darren ...... 37 Joyce, T. S. Eliot, Auden, Beckett...... 31 Melling, Harry ...... 11 Graham, James ...... 16, 18, 21 Jumbo, Cush ...... 9 Melody Loses Her Mojo...... 9 Grand Gesture, The ...... 15 Jürs-Munby, Karen ...... 38 Methuen Drama Anthology of Modern Asian Plays, The. . 22 Grauls, Carla ...... 10 Justice Performed ...... 42 Methuen Drama Guide to Contemporary American Playwrights, The...... 41 Gray, Frances ...... 40 Middeke, Martin ...... 41 Green, Debbie ...... 43 K Midsummer Night's Dream: Language and Writing, A. . . 30 Gutekunst, Christina ...... 43 Kanaber, Daniel ...... 13 Mirabella, Bella...... 33 Guy-Bray, Stephen ...... 25 Kane, Colette ...... 8 Kastner, Martin ...... 22 Misanthrope, The...... 15 H Kastner, Rose ...... 22 Modern Asian Theatre and Performance 1900-2000...... 36 Hall, Katori ...... 18 Kidnie, M.J...... 27 Mongrel Island...... 10 Hamilton, Hugo ...... 15 Kindness of Strangers, The...... 15 Moore Williams, Sera ...... 5 Hamlet: Language and Writing...... 30 Kinevane, Pat ...... 21 Moore, D.C...... 21 Hard Feelings ...... 7 Kingston 14...... 9 Mountaintop, The ...... 18 Hare, David ...... 17 Knives in Hens...... 17 Much Ado About Nothing: Revised Edition...... 28 Harper Regan ...... 17 Kozinn, Sarah ...... 42 Mullarkey, Rory ...... 5 Harris, Ed ...... 10, 14 Kuhn, Tom ...... 39 Murphy, Brenda ...... 37 Harrower, David ...... 17 Kyd, Thomas ...... 25 Murray, Christopher ...... 37 Hartley, Matt ...... 20 My Name Is ...... 10 Hassel Jr., R. Chris ...... 32 L Hastie, Rob...... 6 Laera, Margherita ...... 34 N National Theatre Connections 2014...... 20 Haunted Child...... 8 Land of Our Fathers...... 9 Nativity Goes Wrong, The ...... 15 Hawkes, David ...... 30 Landon-Smith, Kristine ...... 14 Naylor, Hattie ...... 4 Heather Gardner...... 8 Lee, Chris ...... 13 Neilson, Anthony ...... 18, 21 Helland, Frode ...... 38 Lehmann, Courtney ...... 31 New Dramaturgy ...... 42 Henderson, Gary ...... 13 Lennox, Patricia ...... 33 Norris, Luke ...... 20 Heywood, Thomas ...... 27 Lewis, Henry ...... 11, 15 Not The Worst Place...... 10 Hidden in the Sand...... 8 Life and Sort of Death of Eric Argyle, The ...... 15 Life of Galileo, A...... 3 Hillman, David ...... 31 O Himberg, Philip ...... 10 Little Thing, Big Thing ...... 9 Occupied ...... 10 Hims, Katie ...... 4 Littlewood, Joan ...... 10 O'Connor, Peter ...... 35 Holcroft, Sam ...... 20 Liu, Siyuan ...... 22, 36 Oh My Sweet Land ...... 10 Holderness, Graham ...... 22 Lonergan, Patrick ...... 21, 36 Oh What A Lovely War...... 10 Holland, Peter ...... 31 Longing ...... 9 O'Kelly, Donal ...... 9 Home...... 8 Love, Love, Love ...... 17 One Thousand and One Nights ...... 10 Howard, Jean E...... 31 Lowe, Louise ...... 21 Orton, Joe ...... 7 Hübner, Lutz ...... 7 Lucie, Doug...... 7 Hurley, Kieran ...... 21 Lustgarten, Anders...... 4, 8, 21 P Hysteria...... 8 M Paper Dolls...... 10 Parker, Stephen ...... 39 Macbeth...... 28 I Patel, Vinay ...... 16 I Know How I Feel About Eve ...... 8 Macdonald, Graeme ...... 23 Patterson, Hannah ...... 11 Ibsen in Practice ...... 38 Mahfouz, Sabrina ...... 14, 20 Paulin, Roger ...... 31 Ibsen, Henrik ...... 3 Mamet, David ...... 11 Pearson, Morna ...... 21 If You Don't Let Us Dream, We Won't Let You Sleep. . . . 8 Manheim, Ralph...... 22, 39 peddling...... 11 I'm With the Band...... 8 Margaret Thatcher Queen of Soho...... 9 Penhall, Joe ...... 8 In Time O' Strife...... 9 Marlowe, Christopher ...... 25 Performance Studies in Motion...... 42 Innes, Christopher ...... 41 Marsh, Richard ...... 6 Peter Pan Goes Wrong...... 11 Ireland, David ...... 5 Marx and Freud...... 31 Phillips, James ...... 8 Irish Dramatic Revival 1899-1939, The...... 36 Mason, Pamela ...... 28 Physical Expression on Stage and Screen...... 45 Matthews, John ...... 45 Pitchfork Disney, The ...... 18 J McAndrew, Deborah ...... 3, 15 Placey, Evan ...... 20 James, Dafydd ...... 20 McCann, John ...... 13 Play That Goes Wrong, The ...... 15 Jandrell, Gareth ...... 16 McDonagh, Martin ...... 14 Played in Britain ...... 40 Jenkinson, Rosemary ...... 21 McDowall, Alistair ...... 5 Playing with Grown Ups...... 11 Jester, Caroline ...... 7 McEachern, Claire ...... 28 Poole, Adrian...... 31 Johnson, Catherine ...... 20 McEwan, Ian ...... 14 Popular Singing and Style ...... 46 Johnson, Terry ...... 8 McGough, Molière ...... 15 Postdramatic Theatre and the Political ...... 38 Jon Brittain...... 9 McGough, Roger ...... 15

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