PAGE 11

PAGE 48

PAGE 27 DRAMA, PERFORMANCE & LITERARY STUDIES

PAGE 55 NEW BOOKS CATALOGUE 2018-19

9 781350 093317

AcademicCat_2018_covers_Drama.indd 1-2 01/08/2018 13:34 ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS Taking you from page to stage Arden Performance Editions are designed with the practical All needs of actors and drama students in mind, while providing £6.99/ the trustworthy scholarship of the Arden Shakespeare. $9.95

9781474253888 9781474280143 9781474245197 9781474272094 9781474272346 432pp • 216x138mm 360pp • 216x138mm 264pp • 216x138mm 344pp • 216x138mm 408pp • 216x138mm

PLAYTEXT

“The Arden Performance Editions so far represent a much-needed and important contribution. In such a crowded market, it is remarkable to see editions that feel so fresh, relevant, and necessary.” Studies in Theatre and Performance

FACING-PAGE NOTES

Watch the series editors introduce the series at bloomsbury.com/ardenperformanceeditions

www.bloomsbury.com/arden

Arden_PE_catalogue advert_1.0.indd 1 31/05/2018 17:42 This year, Bloomsbury Academic celebrates ARDEN PERFORMANCE EDITIONS Contents our 10th anniversary In our short history, we’ve become an award-winning publisher across the humanities, social sciences and visual arts and combined Drama and Performance Studies the incredible publishing histories of Methuen Drama, The Arden Shakespeare, T&T Clark and Fairchild Books in one place. And we’re still growing: I.B. Tauris, a leading publisher in Middle East Studies, Theatre Studies...... 2 International Studies, History, Politics and Visual Culture joined Taking you from page to stage Bloomsbury in 2018! Performance Studies...... 8 EBooks Arden Performance Editions are designed with the practical All Individual eBook: available for your e-reader Performance Practice...... 10 Library eBook: available for institution-wide access and also for pdf needs of actors and drama students in mind, while providing £6.99/ sale to individuals See the website for details of vendors, or to purchase individual the trustworthy scholarship of the Arden Shakespeare. $9.95 Theatre Practice...... 13 eBooks direct. Library eBook prices are available from your supplier.

Modern Drama - Modern Plays...... 17 Review Copies For copies of books for review in journals, please email Modern Drama - Play Collections...... 24 [email protected] in North and South America and [email protected] in the UK and rest of world.

Shakespeare and Early Modern Drama...... 26 Standing Orders Many of our series are available on a standing order basis. For further information contact our trade ordering departments listed Literary Studies on pages 71 and 72. Translation Rights Contemporary Literature...... 35 Translation rights for all titles are available unless otherwise indicated.

Pricing and Availability 9781474253888 9781474280143 9781474245197 9781474272094 9781474272346 Modernism...... 39 Whilst we endeavour to ensure that prices, publication dates and 432pp • 216x138mm 360pp • 216x138mm 264pp • 216x138mm 344pp • 216x138mm 408pp • 216x138mm other details in this catalogue are correct on going to press, they are Twentieth-Century Literature...... 46 subject to change without further notice. PLAYTEXT Proposals Literary Theory...... 48 If you have a book proposal, please contact one of the editors listed on page 72 or submit your proposal using forms available at www.bloomsbury.com/academic/forauthors “The Arden Comparative Literature...... 51 Performance Editions Inspection / Exam Copies Poetry...... 55 so far represent a much-needed Books with this symbol are available on inspection / as exam copies and important contribution. In such You can request these online at www.bloomsbury.com via the Request Literature and Culture...... 56 Inspection / Examination Copy button on the paperback or eBook a crowded market, it is remarkable record. To request any other paperback or eBook on inspection, please contact us at [email protected] (North and South to see editions that feel so fresh, Environmental Literature...... 59 America) or [email protected] (UK and rest of world). relevant, and necessary.” Books with these symbols also have a companion website or online Studies in Theatre and Children's Literature...... 60 resources. Please see the website for our full inspection/exam/desk Performance copy policy. Creative Writing...... 61 Books with this symbol are available for institutions to purchase on Bloomsbury Collections. www.bloomsburycollections.com. Major Reference Works...... 63 Open Access Index...... 66 Selected research publications are available to read for free online on FACING-PAGE NOTES Bloomsbury Collections. For more information, please refer to www.bloomsbury.com/openaccess. Representatives and Agents...... 71 Your Data For information on how we process your personal data please read our Watch the series editors introduce the series at Editorial Contacts...... 72 Privacy Policy located at www.bloomsbury.com/privacy-policy. You can unsubscribe or manage your preferences at any time via bloomsbury.com/ardenperformanceeditions www.bloomsbury.com/newsletter or by emailing us at [email protected].

Bloomsbury Academic is a division of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc. Registered in England No. 01984336. www.bloomsbury.com/arden www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 1

Arden_PE_catalogue advert_1.0.indd 1 31/05/2018 17:42 Bloomsbury Revelations Bringing together books and thinkers that have opened up startling new ways of looking at the world, the Bloomsbury Revelations series celebrates the originality and excellence of Bloomsbury's non-fiction publishing. Including books by the likes of Winston Churchill, Slavoj Zizek, Ferdinand de Saussure, Ronald Dworkin, Constantin Stanislavski and Gilles Deleuze, this is an essential library of the thinkers who have fundamentally shaped the way we see the modern world.

Brecht on Performance Brecht On Theatre Messingkauf and Modelbooks Bertolt Brecht Bertolt Brecht Edited by Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA, Steve Giles, University Edited by Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's College, of Nottingham, UK & Tom Kuhn, St Hugh's Oxford University, UK, Steve Giles, University of

THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE College, Oxford University, UK Nottingham, UK & Marc Silberman, University of Wisconsin, Madison, USA "The new Brecht on Theatre improves on John Willett’s original version, introducing some "Brecht on Performance is a vital aid to English enlightening texts that were not previously accessible to an speakers in understanding Brecht as a theatre practitioner as well English-speaking readership ... Finely conceived and beautifully as what constitutes Brechtian performance. For the first time, a edited." Modern Language Review full edition of the unfinished Messingkauf"— translated as Buying Brass — is available in English. [This book] will allow Anglophone Charting the development of Brecht’s thinking over four decades, scholars and performance practitioners to revisit Brecht’s influence the volume demonstrates how the theories of Epic Theatre and as a writer, theoretician, and theatre maker specifically, but also — Verfremdung evolved, and contains notes and essays on the staging more generally — the relationship between political thought and of The Threepenny Opera, Mahagonny, Mother Courage, Puntila, aesthetics, and between the theory and the practice of making Galileo, and many other plays. art." TDR: The Drama Review UK October 2018 • 392 pages • 39 bw illus PB 9781350068902 • £19.99 UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 328 pages • 50 bw illus Individual eBook 9781350068919 PB 9781350077065 • £19.99 / $26.95 Library eBook 9781350068926 Individual eBook 9781350077072 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350077089 World English (excluding USA) Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic World English

The Shifting Point Impro Forty Years of Theatrical Exploration, Improvisation and the Theatre 1946–87 Keith Johnstone Peter Brook In this landmark work, now available in the Brook's account covers many of the groundbreaking Bloomsbury Revelations series, Keith Johnstone productions that cemented his reputation as 'one provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and of the artistic geniuses of our time' (San Franciso unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity Herald): his controversial productions of King Lear and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and and Romeo and Juliet; the 3-month period in Africa which culminated exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. in The Conference of the Birds; Marat/Sade; filming King Lear and Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' Lord of the Flies, and the epic The Mahabharata. With Brook's and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group reflections on the problems of Shakespeare and opera, and on a might approach them, the book sets out the specific approaches range of modern theatre artists including Grotowski, Gordon Craig which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. and Samuel Beckett, The Shifting Point provides a uniquely revealing The result is a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous account of 4 decades of artistic exploration. creativity. UK October 2018 • 232 pages PB 9781350069428 • £18.99 UK October 2018 • 208 pages Individual eBook 9781350069435 PB 9781350069039 • £14.99 Library eBook 9781350069442 Individual eBook 9781350069046 Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic Library eBook 9781350069053 World All Languages (excluding USA) Series: Bloomsbury Revelations • Bloomsbury Academic World English (excluding USA)

2 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] THEATRE STUDIES

Rise Up! Reader in Tragedy Broadway and American Society from An Anthology of Classical Criticism to 'Angels in America’ to ‘Hamilton’ Contemporary Theory Chris Jones, Chicago Tribune, USA Edited by Marcus Nevitt, University of Sheffield, Organized chronologically, this lively and readable UK & Tanya Pollard, Brooklyn College, The City work tells the story of Broadway’s renaissance from University of New York, USA the darkest days of the AIDS crisis, via the disaster This unique anthology presents the most important that was Spiderman: Turn Off the Dark through historical essays on tragedy, ranging from the unparalleled financial, artistic and political success of Lin-Manuel antiquity to the present, divided into historical periods and arranged Miranda’s Hamilton. Chris Jones was in the theatres when and where chronologically. Across its span it traces the development of theories it mattered. He takes readers from the moment when Tony Kushner’s and philosophies of tragedy, enabling readers to consider the ways angel crashed (quite literally) through the ceiling of prejudice and in which different varieties of environmentalist, feminist, leftist and religious intolerance to the triumph of Hamilton, with the coda of the postcolonial thought have transformed the status of tragedy, and the Broadway cast addressing a new Republican vice-president from the idea of the tragic, for recent generations of artists, critics and thinkers. stage. Students of literature and theatre will find this collection an invaluable and accessible guide to writing from Plato and Aristotle through to UK November 2018 • US November 2018 • 240 pages 21st-century theorists. PB 9781350071933 • £17.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781350071940 Library eBook 9781350071957 UK February 2019 • US March 2019 • 336 pages Methuen Drama PB 9781474270427 • £28.99 / $39.95 • HB 9781474270434 • £90.00 / $122.00 Individual eBook 9781474270441 Library eBook 9781474270458 Methuen Drama World English

Theory for Theatre Studies Series Editors: Kim Solga, Western University, Canada & Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Theory for Theatre Studies meets the need for accessible, mid-length volumes that unpack key words that lie at the core of the discipline. Aimed primarily at undergraduate students and secondarily at postgraduates and researchers, these volumes feature both background material historicizing the term, and forward-looking research into intersecting theoretical trends in the field. Case studies ground volumes in praxis, and additional online resources ensure readers are equipped with the necessary skills and understanding to move deeper into the discipline.

Theory for Theatre Studies: Theory for Theatre Studies: Sound Space Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Canada Kim Solga, Western University, Canada Sound provides the first overview of relevant critical This book provides the first overview for students theory for students and researchers in theatre and researchers of relevant critical theory relating to and performance studies. Exploring areas such as this fundamental aspect of theatre and performance. music, speech and soundscape, this volume will It examines the 'spatial turn' in 20th-century theatre open up the study of theatrical production and live and performance making – and criticism – and performance to engage more effectively its aural dimensions. By way establishes 5 frameworks for thinking through the spatial turn. A of developed case studies, readers will access new methodologies range of case studies from the contemporary world of theatre and and approaches for their own exploration of 'sound' as a performance performance demonstrate how these frameworks continue to shape component. In an engagement with the burgeoning interdisciplinary and impact the ways in which space emerges as a topic of critical field of sound studies, this book will alert theatre and performance discussion today. The volume also explores new trends and theatre's studies scholars and students to new work important to our fields. engagement with the spaces of work, labour and capital.

UK May 2019 • US May 2019 • 144 pages UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 208 pages PB 9781474246477 • £12.99 / $19.95 • HB 9781474246460 • £45.00 / $60.00 PB 9781350006065 • £12.99 / $17.95 • HB 9781350006072 • £45.00 / $60.00 Individual eBook 9781474246484 Individual eBook 9781350006089 Library eBook 9781474246453 Library eBook 9781350006096 Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama Series: Theory for Theatre Studies • Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 3 Critical Companions

Series Editors: Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland Galway, Ireland & Kevin J. Wetmore, Loyola Marymount The Theatre of Tom Murphy University, USA Playwright Adventurer Ranging across the 20th and 21st centuries, Methuen Drama's Critical Nicholas Grene, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland Companions series covers playwrights, theatre makers, movements and "The best and most complete [book on Murphy] periods of international theatre and performance. Drawing on original that anyone has yet produced and all future research, each volume provides a critical survey and analysis of a body scholars and critics will use it as a diving board of work by one author, giving attention to both text and performance. from which to plunge into Murphy's deep and turbulent waters." Fintan O’Toole, The Irish Times Tom Murphy shot to fame with the London production of A Whistle in the Dark in 1961, establishing him as the outstanding Irish playwright Irish Drama and Theatre Since of his generation. The international success of DruidMurphy in THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE 2012–13 served to underline his continuing appeal and importance. 1950 This provides an overview of all his work and a detailed reading of his Patrick Lonergan, National University of Ireland, most significant texts. Galway, Ireland Drawing on major new archival discoveries and UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 272 pages PB 9781472568106 • £21.99 / $29.95 recent research, Patrick Lonergan presents an Previously published in HB 9781472568113 innovative, highly readable and informative account Individual eBook 9781472568120 of Irish drama and theatre since 1950. The book Library eBook 9781472568137 Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama focuses on the many Irish dramatists who have achieved international prominence during that period, starting with Beckett and Brendan Behan in the 1950s, continuing with Brian Friel and Tom Murphy in the 1960s, and concluding with the many great dramatists who emerged in the late 1990s – including Martin McDonagh, Enda Walsh, Conor The Drama and Theatre of Sarah McPherson and Marina Carr. Ruhl

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 15 bw illus Amy Muse, University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, PB 9781474262651 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474262644 • £65.00 / $88.00 Minnesota, USA Individual eBook 9781474262668 Library eBook 9781474262675 This study provides a clear and accessible analysis of Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Sarah Ruhl's ouevre, giving readers an experience of her plays, not just an explanation of them. Through a finely-grained, dimensional account of each play, readers are immersed in Ruhl’s unique idiom; in themes of love and death, mourning and loss, intimacy and faith, and in inventive The Theatre of Anthony Neilson stagecraft to articulate consciousness onstage. Enriched by engaging Trish Reid, Kingston University, London, UK essays by three scholars, a roundtable discussion with female directors of her generation, this is a companionable guide for students of "Significant to the field of theatre and American literature and theatre studies. performance because of its status as the first full-

length study of the playwright, but its importance UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 232 pages is intensified by its deep thought, rigorous HB 9781350007819 • £75.00 / $102.00 research and superb prose." Studies in Theatre and Individual eBook 9781350007826 Library eBook 9781350007802 Performance Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama This volume provides the first full-length study of both Neilson’s plays and his innovative rehearsal methodology. As well as providing a

detailed account of each play Trish Reid includes an extensive new interview with Neilson and with many of his key collaborators. The Theatre and Films of Conor UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 224 pages McPherson PB 9781472570291 • £28.99 / $39.95 Previously published in HB 9781472570307 Conspicuous Communities Individual eBook 9781472570314 Library eBook 9781472570321 Eamonn Jordan, University College Dublin, Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama Ireland This book offers a vibrant and detailed critical analysis of the plays and films of Conor McPherson. It considers issues of gender, class, violence, wealth and the supernatural in relation to the conditions and expressions of agency in the cultural, political and contexts in which the work is written and performed. Supplemented by a number of contributed critical and performance perspectives, including an interview with Conor McPherson, the volume provides readers with a clear analysis of the work and accounts for its popular and critical success.

UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 256 pages HB 9781350051218 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350051225 Library eBook 9781350051232 Series: Critical Companions • Methuen Drama

4 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Applied Theatre THEATRE STUDIES Series Editors: Michael Balfour, Griffith University, Australia & Sheila Preston, University of East London, UK The Applied Theatre series brings together leading international scholars who engage with and advance the field. Volumes offer a theoretical framework and introductory survey of the field addressed, combined with a range of case studies illustrating, and critically engaging with, practice.

Applied Theatre: Creative Applied Theatre: Economies Ageing Edited by Molly Mullen, University of Auckland, Sheila McCormick, University of Salford, UK New Zealand Applied Theatre: Economies addresses a notoriously Applied Theatre: Creative Ageing examines the problematic area of applied theatre, asking: Is it all complex social, political and cultural needs of older about the money? Are the aims and forms of applied adults and asks how contemporary applied theatre theatre inevitably determined by the economic responds to those needs. This publication allows an conditions in which it is produced? Will applied examination of innovative national and international theatre makers always, ultimately, align with the agendas of the donors practice in applied theatre that responds to the needs of older adults on which they depend? Are there sustainable ways to finance or to encourage outcomes such as wellbeing and social inclusion. The resource applied theatre that do not undermine its social and artistic volume also questions how we, as a society, wish to respond to the values or conflict with the interests of participants? complex needs of older adults and the process of ageing and how applied theatre practices can help us do so in a way that is both UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 280 pages positive and inclusive. HB 9781350001701 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350001718 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 272 pages • 6 bw illus Library eBook 9781350001725 PB 9781474233828 • £19.99 / $34.95 Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama Previously published in HB 9781474233835 Individual eBook 9781474233842 Library eBook 9781474233859 Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama

Popular Performance Applied Theatre: Women and the Edited by Adam Ainsworth, Kingston University, Criminal Justice System London, UK, Oliver Double, University of Kent, UK & Louise Peacock, University of Hull, UK Caoimhe McAvinchey, Queen Mary University London, UK Popular Performance defines and surveys varieties of performance where the main purpose is to entertain. This provides the first sustained critical enquiry Contributions by new and established scholars into applied theatre practice with women affected focus particularly on how it is made, explaining the by the criminal justice system. Drawing on a techniques of performance and production that make it so appealing range of international case studies, interviews to audiences. With sections examining how popular performance with practitioners and participants and original documentation from works in a range of historical and contemporary examples, readers will applied theatre projects, the book articulates new understanding gain insights into the variety tradition; performance forms associated about the cultural representations of women who offend, how with circus; issues relating to the identity of the performer in burlesque government policy inscribes social, economic and political values and pantomime, and issues relating to venue and audience in upon these bodies and how applied theatre practice negotiates ideas contemporary street theatre, stand-up, and live sketch comedy. of identity, agency, authority and representation.

UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 304 pages • 8 bw illus UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages PB 9781350089686 • £28.99 / $39.95 HB 9781474262552 • £75.00 / $102.00 Previously published in HB 9781474247344 Individual eBook 9781474262569 Individual eBook 9781474247351 Library eBook 9781474262576 Library eBook 9781474247337 Series: Applied Theatre • Methuen Drama Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 5

Tennessee Williams in Sweden Puppets and Cities and France, 1945–1965 Articulating Identities in Southeast Asia Cultural Translations, Sexual Anxieties and Jennifer Goodlander, Indiana University, USA Racial Fantasies The book addresses how puppetry complements Dirk Gindt, Stockholm University, Sweden and combines with urban spaces to articulate present and future cultural and national identities. This volume provides a critical study of the Puppetry in Southeast Asia is one of the oldest and processes of production and reception of American most dynamic genres of performance. Bangkok, playwright Tennessee Williams’ works on Swedish and French stages Jakarta, Phnom Penh, and other dynamic cities are expanding at the height of his commercial popularity between 1945 and 1965. and rapidly changing. Performance brings people together, offers With each chapter focusing on stage productions of one of the major opportunities for economic growth, and bridges public and private plays and considering issues of embodiment, performance and visual spheres. Whether it is a traditional shadow performance borrowing THEATRE STUDIES THEATRE culture, Dirk Gindt charts and analyses the patterns of migration and from Star Wars or giant puppets parading down the street, this book cultural translation of Williams’ plays. Readers are provided with a examines how puppets operate as objects and in performance to nuanced understanding of the transnational impact of one of the 20th make culture come alive. century’s most influential playwrights.

UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 240 pages • 26 bw illus UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 288 pages • 30 bw illus HB 9781350044418 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781350022072 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350044425 Individual eBook 9781350022089 Library eBook 9781350044432 Library eBook 9781350022065 Methuen Drama Methuen Drama

George Farquhar Nomadic Theatre A Migrant Life Reversed Mobilizing Theory and Practice on the European Stage David Roberts, Birmingham City University, UK Liesbeth Groot Nibbelink, Utrecht University, The Netherlands "This captivating biography, full of previously This study introduces the concept of ‘nomadic theatre’ as a tool for undiscovered material, tells the story of analyzing mobile performances and performative installations. It Restoration playwright George Farquhar (1677– includes detailed analysis of contemporary performance practices 1707) in reverse: from his death in poverty, by leading European artists, including Rimini Protokoll, Dries through the success of The Beaux Stratagem and Verhoeven, Ontroerend Goed and Signa, and demonstrates how A Recruiting Officer, and ending with his birth in Londonderry. mobile performances radically rethink the conditions of the stage and Essential reading not only for those interested in Farquhar or 18th- alter our understanding of spectatorship. Nomadic Theatre takes an century theatre, but also in the literature of the dispossessed, it integrated approach to theory and practice, instigates connections is the first study to combine elegant readings of Farquhar’s plays across disciplinary fields, and feeds dramaturgical analysis with with migrancy criticism. Farquhar, it shows, was more modern than insights derived from media theory, urban philosophy, cartography, any other writer of the period." Tiffany Stern, The Shakespeare architecture and game studies. Institute, University of Birmingham, UK

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 12 bw illus UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 240 pages • 1 bw illus HB 9781350051034 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781350057067 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350051041 Individual eBook 9781350057074 Library eBook 9781350051058 Library eBook 9781350057081 Series: Thinking through Theatre • Methuen Drama Series: Cultural Histories of Theatre and Performance • Methuen Drama

6 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Methuen Drama Engage THEATRE STUDIES Series Editors: Mark Taylor-Batty, Workshop Theatre, University of Leeds, UK & Enoch Brater, The University of Michigan, USA Methuen Drama Engage offers original reflections about key practitioners, movements and genres in the fields of modern theatre and performance. Each volume challenges mainstream critical thought through the introduction of original and interdisciplinary perspectives.

Authenticity in Contemporary Fiery Temporalities in Theatre Theatre and Performance and Performance Make it Real The Initiation of History Daniel Schulze, Theater Konstanz, Germany Maurya Wickstrom, City University of New York, This study analyses the ‘culture of authenticity’ as USA it relates to theatre and establishes a theoretical "In a wonderful book that sets itself compellingly framework for analysis. It examines three types of against death, against tragedy, against the performances that exemplify this structure of feeling: intimate theatre closures and comforts of (theatrical) repetition, Maurya Wickstrom seen in Forced Entertainment productions such as Quizoola!, as well designates the theatre she loves as the source of an irruptive force as one-on-one performances, such as Oentroerend Goed’s Internal; of initiation. An initiation that is not against anything, that is not immersive theatres as illustrated by Punchdrunk’s shows The Masque mere resistance, but insists instead upon being for something, for of the Red Death and The Drowned Man; and documentary theatre, something before the end, for revolution, perhaps. Its bold claims through various examples such as Robin Soan’s Talking to Terrorists are sustained through illuminating attention to the experience of a and Edmund Burke’s Black Watch. contemporary theatre that wrestles with its own contemporaneity." Nicholas Ridout, Queen Mary, University of London, UK UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 296 pages PB 9781350086654 • £28.99 / $39.95 UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 264 pages Previously published in HB 9781350000964 HB 9781474281690 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350000971 Individual eBook 9781474281706 Library eBook 9781350000988 Library eBook 9781474281713 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Ecologies of Precarity in Twenty- Robert Lepage / Ex Machina First Century Theatre Revolutions in Theatrical Space Politics, Affect, Responsibility James Reynolds, Kingston University London, UK Marissia Fragkou, Canterbury Christ Church Robert Lepage and Ex Machina’s theatricality is University, UK interdisciplinary and intercultural, and, characterized Presenting a critical investigation of the by intense hybridity. Robert Lepage / Ex Machina: reinvigoration of the political in contemporary British Revolutions in Theatrical Space reads against the theatre, Marissia Fragkou's study provides a fresh understanding grain of criticism, providing readers with a fresh, of how theatre has engaged with issues of human vulnerability and practice-based and critical perspective by arguing that these aesthetic responsibility in the last two decades. By focusing on the spiralling of practices operate simultaneously as positive cultural principles. uncertainty in the new millennium, the study makes a case for reading Drawing directly on case studies of process, a wide range of precarity as a political theatrical trope which carries the potential productions and in-depth interviews, this book intertwines theoretical to re-animate our understanding of the ‘human’ and communal and practical concerns, weighing them in balance, and, in doing responsibility for the lives of others. so, produces a new critical perspective on Robert Lepage and Ex Machina.

UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 248 pages HB 9781474267144 • £75.00 / $102.00 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 288 pages Individual eBook 9781474267168 HB 9781474276092 • £75.00 / $102.00 Library eBook 9781474267151 Individual eBook 9781474276580 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781474276597 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

Social Housing in Performance Postdramatic Theatre and Form The English Council Estate on and off Edited by Michael Shane Boyle, Queen Mary Stage University of London, UK, Matt Cornish, Ohio Katie Beswick, University of Exeter, UK University, USA & Brandon Woolf, New York Katie Beswick explores how council estates have University, USA been represented in England across a range of This collection of essays brings together scholars, performance forms. Drawing on examples from critics and artists to examine the stakes of continuing mainstream, site-specific and socially engaged to use postdramatic theatre as a lens for studying performance works, including work by SPID Theatre Company, contemporary performance. In addition to introducing key debates in Jordan McKenzie, Bola Agbaje, Andrea Dunbar and The National contemporary performance and documenting recent developments Youth Theatre, it considers the political potential of contemporary in European and North American theatre making, this collection performance practices concerned with the council estate. insists that postdramatic theatre is a formal category of performance. Representations of the council estate are brought into dialogue with Contributors draw on literary studies, art history, film studies and North American cultural products, beside cultural representations philosophy to interrogate the aesthetic outputs of theatre as much as of social housing elsewhere in Northern Europe and South Africa, its material conditions such as funding. to uncover the features of the British context and situate the work globally. UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 304 pages • 10 bw illus HB 9781350043169 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350043176 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 272 pages • 10 bw illus Library eBook 9781350043183 • HB 9781474285216 £75.00 / $102.00 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781474285193 Library eBook 9781474285209 Series: Methuen Drama Engage • Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 7

Thinking Through Theatre and The Sixth Sense of the Avant- Performance Garde Edited by Maaike Bleeker, Utrecht University, Dance, Kinaesthesia and the Arts in Netherlands, Adrian Kear, Wimbledon College Revolutionary Russia of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK, Joe Kelleher, Roehampton University, UK & Heike Irina Sirotkina, National Research University Roms, University of Exeter, UK Higher School of Economics, Russia & Roger Smith, Lancaster University, UK, and Institute of This radical new textbook introduces an innovative Philosophy of the Russian Academy of Sciences, approach to the study of performance. Emphasizing the need to Russia re-engage with the materiality of theatre-making processes and to articulate the knowledge of performance located within the practice "This book is a treasure chest of personages and practices— of theatre, Thinking Through Theatre and Performance examines everyone from Kandinsky to Blok, from Scriabin to Shklovsky, and the ways in which performance – and performance studies – is itself multiple souls in between; everything from Dalcroze Eurythmics to practised through enquiry-driven logics of creative invention and the Foxtrot. It offers dynamic new ways to view the cultural history critical investigation. of this time." The Russian Review This book turns to history to show just how significant movement and UK February 2019 • US March 2019 • 384 pages • 30 bw illus the sense of movement were to pioneers of modernism at the turn of

PERFORMANCE STUDIES PB 9781472579607 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781472579614 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472579621 the 20th century. It makes history vivid through a picture of movement Library eBook 9781472579638 in the lives of an extraordinary generation of Russian artists, writers, Series: Thinking through Theatre • Methuen Drama theatre people and dancers.

UK December 2018 • US December 2018 • 232 pages • 15 bw illus

PB 9781350087408 • £21.99 / $29.95 Previously published in HB 9781350014312 Clowning as Social Performance Individual eBook 9781350014329 Library eBook 9781350014336 in Colombia Methuen Drama Ridicule and Resistance World English

Barnaby King, Edge Hill University, UK "King delivers a volume that blends an insider’s The Bloomsbury Companion to view of the evolution of clowning practice in Colombia with a critical analysis of the social, Dance Studies political, and economic forces that have helped to shape that Edited by Sherril Dodds, Temple University, USA evolution … Throughout the book, King’s insider understanding The volume brings together leading international of the art of clowning and his participation in some of the acts dance scholars to offer a comprehensive guide to provide keen insight and cogent argumentation … King offers a the field of dance research, and the contemporary compelling and vibrant contribution that illuminates the ways in theories and methods that underpin its scholarship. which clown performance intersects with everyday Colombian Graduate students and students undertaking life." Modern Drama dissertation research will find it an essential guide to the various sub-disciplines, research methodologies and new directions in dance UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 296 pages • 6 bw illus PB 9781350076396 • £28.99 / $39.95 scholarship and research. The dances under investigation range from Previously published in HB 9781474249270 experimental conceptual concert dance through to underground street Individual eBook 9781474249287 dance practices and dance on the digital screen, and the geographic Library eBook 9781474249294 Methuen Drama reach encompasses dance-making from European, South Asian, North American, Australian and African-Caribbean contexts.

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 448 pages • 15 bw illus HB 9781350024465 • £130.00 / $176.00 Performing Psychologies Individual eBook 9781350024472 Imagination, Creativity and Dramas of the Library eBook 9781350024496 Series: Bloomsbury Companions • Methuen Drama Mind Edited by Nicola Shaughnessy, University

of Kent, UK & Philip Barnard, University of Cambridge, UK Exploring Television Acting Performing Psychologies offers new perspectives Edited by Tom Cantrell, University of on drama and psychology, demonstrating the value Westminster, UK & Christopher Hogg, Sheffield of theatre and performance to scientific understanding of the mind. Hallam University, UK Encompassing a range of conditions (including autism, dementia This is the first book to bring together scholarly and and schizophrenia), the book challenges stereotypes of disability, practitioner perspectives on acting for television. madness and creativity, bringing arts and science into dialogue, with In 15 new essays by internationally distinguished contributions from psychologists, theatre scholars and practitioners. researchers and actor-trainers, and the most exciting The book demonstrates how performance practices offer insights into early-career scholars, this collection analyses the acting processes mental processes, engaging with emotion, memory and psychological and resulting performances of some of the most acclaimed television experiences in ways that complement and enhance scientific actors such as Hugh Bonneville, Viola Davis, Philip Glenister, Hugh approaches. Laurie, Maxine Peake and Jason Watkin.

UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 288 pages • 9 bw illus UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 208 pages HB 9781474260855 • £75.00 / $102.00 HB 9781474248587 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474260862 Individual eBook 9781474248570 Library eBook 9781474260879 Library eBook 9781474248594 Series: Performance and Science: Interdisciplinary Dialogues • Methuen Drama Methuen Drama

8 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] XXXXX

01/08/2018 10:31

with work your thematic future in film events

the across content related or independent study research such as filmmakers by leading of works books, on a and contextual 230 critical @bloomsburydigtl over to as to as well the launch module, providing Nolan, and Christopher Varda, Agnès Anderson, Americas: [email protected] Americas: Asia: [email protected] Africa, East, Middle UK, Europe, [email protected] Zealand: and New Australia an interactive through and technologies, culture, production, Cinema timeline with links to of History resource to relevant content and save share cite, Discover, and taxonomy, tailored search, advanced ease, using the powerful features personalization and styles; movements, themes; films; genres, by people; Browse or books— ideal for including screenplays types or content to approaches different Comprising a diverse range of book andexceptional screenplay Bloomsbury & from content Faber and Screen Studies is a dynamic and Faber, expanding digital platform. It supports academics students and history, of film theory and practice. Highlights Content screenplays, and contemporary number of iconic A growing searchable, and fully format studio in industry-standard presented including Dunkirk, The Grand, and The Big Lebowski Budapest Hotel coverageAuthoritative Wes practice and creative professional insight into accessInstant — themes, and filmmakers regions, of genres, range diverse and filmmaking on screenwriting, instruction including practical techniques and Benefits Features of key understanding contextual Enhances articles, including reference content alongside modules, plans guides, and lesson bibliographic Access via Subscription or Perpetual Available www.screenstudies.com us: Follow and books will screenplays on an annual basis—new Updated be added to • • • • • • •

For more information, please contact: please information, more For

Free 30-day institutional trials are available now! available trials are 30-day institutional Free

TO SCREEN, TO SCREEN,

AND BEYOND FROM SCRIPT SCRIPT FROM Screen_Studies_Cat_Ad_A4_FINAL.indd 1

Michael Chekhov’s Acting The Singer Acts/The Actor Sings Technique A Practical Guide to Living Through Song A Practitioner’s Guide Glenn Seven Allen, Yale School of Drama, USA Sinéad Rushe, Central School of Speech and A practical workbook and video for musical Drama, UK theatre. Structured in three sections it allows readers to combine acting and singing technique Michael Chekhov's Acting Technique provides for storytelling. Section One helps readers to a complete overview of Chekhov's whole acting understand song from a dramaturgical perspective. method, illuminating his principles through a wide range of practical Section Two analyses singing and the psycho-physiological effect it exercises that illustrate how they can be applied to dramatic texts. has on audiences. Section Three combines these approaches into a After outlining Chekhov's basic principles, Rushe charts a journey holistic model for combining acting and singing technique. It is an through the foundational psychophysical exercises that can orient an essential workbook for all actors and singers, whether in training or in actor's training and be applied to the development of a role. Rushe the profession, who are interested in telling great stories through great then explores specific methods of scene work, characterisation and songs. the art of transformation. The book illustrates Chekhov’s approach by referring to productions of UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 256 pages PB 9781350043077 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350043060 • £65.00 / $88.00 'Diary of a Madman' and Othello; Sarah Kane's Blasted and television Individual eBook 9781350043084 drama Breaking Bad. Library eBook 9781350043053

PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama

UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 304 pages PB 9781408156889 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350090033 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781472503473

Library eBook 9781472503466 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama The Theatre of the Oppressed in Practice Today

An Introduction to the Work and Russian Theatre in Practice Principles of Augusto Boal The Director's Guide Ali Campbell, Queen Mary, University of London, UK Edited by Amy Skinner, University of Hull, UK This book provides an introduction to the political Strongly practical in its approach, Russian Theatre in and artistic principles Augusto Boal's techniques are founded upon Practice equips readers with an understanding of the and traces their legacy today through examples of exemplary practice varying approaches of each director, and through from around the globe. Authored by one of the key exponents of the the practical exercises gives them the opportunity Theatre of the Oppressed working today who was mentored by Boal, to participate and explore ideas in practice, thereby the volume equips readers with a clear grounding in the universal, honing their own directing skills. Each chapter focuses on one director, transferable principles of Boal’s work. Using detailed contemporary combining an examination of their directing theory and technique with case histories, Ali Campbell demonstrates how the underlying practical exercises for use in classroom or rehearsal settings. principles of Boal's practice have been adapted in the work of some of the most influential Applied Performance groups operating UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 288 pages • 25 bw illus internationally today. PB 9781474284417 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781474284424 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474284431 Library eBook 9781474284448 UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 256 pages • 15 bw illus Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama PB 9781350031418 • £16.99 / $22.95 • HB 9781350031425 • £50.00 / $68.00 Individual eBook 9781350031401 Library eBook 9781350031432

Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama A Director’s Guide to the Art of Stand-up Chris Head, Freelance director and comedy Performer Training Reconfigured coach, UK Post-psychophysical Perspectives for the This is the first book to give the director’s Twenty-first Century perspective on developing stand-up from club sets to full-length shows. Drawing on his own Frank Camilleri, University of Malta, Malta experience of directing stand-up alongside speaking Performer Training Reconfigured rethinks to comedians and their directors, Chris Head produces a revealing the phenomenon of training for theatre and perspective on the comic’s persona, their material, the structuring of performance in the light of 21st-century shows and delivering a performance. For stand-up readers the book developments, technologies and conditions. offers directorial insights and a fresh perspective on their work and will Stemming from the author's extensive practice and incorporating serve as a resource that will inspire as well as provide practical tips. For a review of current practices and theories, it advances different directors, coaches and writers it offers numerous tools and approaches perspectives on how material circumstances shape and affect for working with comics. processes of training, devising, rehearsing and performing. Frank Camilleri puts forward the 'post-psychophysical' as a more extended UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 200 pages • 2 bw illus form of psychophysical discursivity and practices that emerged and PB 9781350035522 • £18.99 / $25.95 dominated in the 20th century. It offers invaluable introductions to a Individual eBook 9781350035539 Library eBook 9781350035546 wide range of theories that can be applied to other areas of theatre, Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama dance and performance.

UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 272 pages HB 9781350060180 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350060197 Library eBook 9781350060210 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama

10 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] PERFORMANCE PRACTICE

Ivo van Hove The Dramatic Text Workbook From Shakespeare to David Bowie and Video Edited by Susan Bennett, University of Calgary, Practical Tools for Actors and Directors Canada & Sonia Massai, King's College London, David Carey, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, USA UK & Rebecca Clark Carey, Oregon Shakespeare Featuring a Foreword by Ivo van Hove and an Festival, USA original interview with him about his process, A textbook which explores the expressive potential this book provides a wealth of resources and of language, and how actors can develop their verbal skills to critical analysis of van Hove's renowned theatre, opera and musical release that potential. A follow-up to The Verbal Arts Workbook, and productions. With discussion of his productions ranging from Antigone now including a revised introduction, updated reading lists and a to The Crucible, La Clemenza di Tito to Brokeback Mountain and from comprehensive revision of the major exercises within the book, it is The Taming of the Shrew to The Fountainhead, this richly illustrated supported by over 90 minutes of online video workshops, exploring book presents the full diversity of van Hove’s work and explores his the key techniques and tactics explored in the book. directorial process through interviews, director’s notes and critical reviews. UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 304 pages Contributors are international, field-leading scholars, distinguished PB 9781350055056 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350055049 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350055063 theatre professionals and van Hove’s closest collaborators. Library eBook 9781350055070 Series: Theatre Arts Workbooks • Methuen Drama UK July 2018 • US July 2018 • 264 pages • 16 colour and 30 bw illus PB 9781350031548 • £26.99 / $36.95 • HB 9781350031531 • £80.00 / $108.00 Individual eBook 9781350031555

Library eBook 9781350031524 Series: Performance Books • Methuen Drama Laban's Efforts in Action A Movement Handbook for Actors with

Online Video Resources Applied Improvisation Vanessa Ewan, Central School of Speech Leading, Collaborating, and Creating and Drama, UK & Kate Sagovsky, Theatre practitioner, UK Beyond the Theatre Laban's Efforts in Action is the first book to Edited by Theresa Robbins Dudeck, Freelance document Rudolf Laban's Efforts of Action Drive, practitioner and scholar, USA & Caitlin McClure, which provide understanding of movement (strength, timing and Freelance practitioner, USA control) in terms of inner intention, in a practical, focused and detailed "Applied Improvisation is a world-class textbook way for the actor. Following years of research, this new text now makes for those who want to learn how to teach the process widely available and accessible to the actor. Written using corporate and nonprofit groups improvisation skills. It's also an experience-based examples, it offers a greater depth of coverage than inspiring idea book for anyone who wants to bring the magic of any other text and a new creative process for the actor with practical theatre to their organization. After reading this remarkable work, exercises, video examples, case studies and theoretical background. you'll be eager to start on your own improv adventure." Daniel H. Pink, author of To Sell Is Human, Drive, and A Whole New Mind UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 320 pages PB 9781472533241 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781472528162 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781472524522 UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 320 pages • 19 bw illus Library eBook 9781472532428 PB 9781350014367 • £21.99 / $29.95 • HB 9781350014350 • £65.00 / $88.00 Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350014381 Library eBook 9781350014398 Methuen Drama

The Actor's Survival Guide A Life-coaching Approach to How to Make Your Way in Hollywood Screen Acting Jon S. Robbins, Actor and blogger, USA Daniel Dresner, Freelance, UK From the experience of relocating to LA to the Combining life-coaching and screen-acting casting process, to identifying (and finding work techniques in one accessible handbook, this guide with) the key players in the film and television empowers actors to overcome personal inhibitions industry, The Actor's Survival Guide offers a and approach their work, characters and careers with business-centered road map through the pitfalls and confidence to produce real and believable acting on wrong turns that derail too many promising careers and frustrate even screen. the most dedicated of actors, and – for those who have the skills and determination to persevere – provides an extra competitive edge and Structured to build absolute confidence and understanding of yourself experience and know-how. This updated and revised edition includes before you take on a new role and play someone else, this book new sections on new media and contracts. employs life-coaching techniques to give you the conviction to face a fulfilling but potentially daunting career as an actor. After mentoring UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 224 pages • 20 bw illus you towards self-assurance, Dresner moves on to examine essential PB 9781350039384 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350039377 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350039391 elements of a screen actor’s craft, such as emotions, imagination, Library eBook 9781350039360 nerves, listening and line-learning. Methuen Drama

UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 176 pages PB 9781350039438 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350039421 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350039445 Library eBook 9781350039414 Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 11

The Actor's Career Bible Actors and Performers Yearbook Auditioning, Networking, Survival & 2019 Success Essential Contacts for Stage, Screen and Rob Ostlere, Actor, UK Radio This print and digital handbook is the go-to resource Edited by Lloyd Trott, RADA, UK for career guidance and support. This book is based "An essential tool for all actors" Christine Payne, on over 100 hundred interviews with working actors Equity and industry professionals and is filled with a huge range of inside knowledge from actors of all backgrounds (at every This well-established and respected directory supports actors in their level of the profession), industry experts, key organisations, casting search for work on stage, screen and radio. It is the only directory to directors, agents, producers, directors and many others. This depth provide detailed information for each listing and specific advice on of research means that readers can tailor the advice to suit the own how to approach companies and individuals, saving hours of further career stage. research. From agents and casting directors to producing theatres, showreel companies, photographers and much more, this essential UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 192 pages reference book editorially selects only the most relevant and reputable PB 9781472585318 • £19.99 / $26.95 contacts for the actor. Individual eBook 9781472585325 Library eBook 9781472585332 Methuen Drama UK October 2018 • US October 2018 • 504 pages PB 9781350067943 • £14.99 / $20.95 PERFORMANCE PRACTICE Individual eBook 9781350067967 Library eBook 9781350067950 Methuen Drama

12 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Backstage THEATRE PRACTICE From detailed guides on very specific areas of make-up, props and sets, to handbooks for stage managers, amateur dramatic groups and directors of musicals, here you'll find a practical range of books for planning your production behind the scenes.

Performance Lighting Design The Art of Theatrical Sound How to Light for the Stage, Concerts and Design Live Events A Practical Guide Nick Moran, Royal Central School of Speech and Victoria Deiorio, DePaul Universtiy, USA Drama, UK Emphasizing the artistry behind the decisions made A practical guide to the art and technique of by theatrical sound designers, this guide is for lighting for the stage, this book explains the anyone seeking to understand the nature of sound complex mixture of craft, collaboration and creativity and how to apply it to the stage. Through tried-and-tested advice behind successful lighting design. This handbook for professional and lessons this book explores, theoretically, how human beings practice walks you through how to achieve this, from first concept perceive the vibration of sound; offers exercises to develop support to development of design ideas, planning to realisation and, finally, for storytelling by creating an emotional journey for the audience; public performance. considers how to collaborate and communicate as a theatre artist; and Now fully revised, this second edition has been brought up to date discusses how to create a cohesive sound design for the stage. with Moran introducing new concepts and ways of working, a section on analysing the finished design, and discussion of recent research UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 240 pages PB 9781474257800 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781474257794 • £65.00 / $88.00 into contemporary lighting practice, addressing emerging trends, Individual eBook 9781474257817 particularly for drama. Library eBook 9781474257848 Series: Backstage • Methuen Drama

UK September 2018 • US September 2018 • 288 pages • 75 colour illus PB 9781350017085 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781350017078 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781350017092

Library eBook 9781350017061 Series: Backstage • Methuen Drama Collaborating Backstage Breaking Barriers for the Creative Network Timo Niermann, Freelance Director, Austria Staging Musicals This practical handbook describes the skills and An Essential Guide resources that a stage production’s network and Matthew White, Actor/Director, UK their culturally diverse members have to offer. It teaches how to bring people together to work to Staging Musicals describes all the elements involved the same goal, support an international exchange in putting on a musical production, including: and improve the overall creative process. With 20 years of performing choosing the right show, creating budgets and and directing in over 40 countries, Timo Niermann has a strong schedules, auditions, rehearsals and performances, practical base underpinned by theories of performance, creativity and set and costume design, lighting and publicity. communication. Including many backstage examples, this is an easy- Drawing on the author's own experience, as well as on interviews with to-read guide that enables theatre professionals to make the most of other producers, choreographers and designers in the UK and the US, their creative, multi-cultural team from the outset. Staging Musicals is structured as a step by step reference detailing every stage of the work. It is a must-have text for any would-be UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 192 pages • 30 bw illus impresarios planning their first production. PB 9781350072831 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350072848 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350073098 Library eBook 9781350073081 UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 208 pages Series: Backstage • Methuen Drama PB 9781474247726 • £25.99 / $35.95 • HB 9781474247719 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474247733 Library eBook 9781474247740 Series: Backstage • Methuen Drama

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 13 Introductions to Theatre

Series Editor: Jim Volz, California State University, Fullerton, USA Music Fundamentals for Musical This series of textbooks provides practical introductions to core Theatre areas of theatre and performance and has been designed to Christine Riley, Marymount Manhattan College, support semester teaching plans. Each book offers case studies and USA international examples of practice and will equip undergraduate This book offers a series of lessons in music students and emerging theatre professionals with the understanding fundamentals, including theory, sight-singing and and skills necessary to succeed – whether in study or in the aural tests, giving readers the skills to navigate music entertainment industry. and all that is demanded of them, without having had a formal music training. Throughout the book, each musical concept is laid out clearly and simply with helpful hints and reminders. By introducing a theoretical idea and then putting it into practice Directing Professionally with sight-singing and ear-training, the students gain a much deeper and more integrated understanding of the material, and are able to THEATRE PRACTICE THEATRE A Practical Guide to Developing a retain it and use it in voice lessons, performance classes and their Successful Career in Today’s Theatre professional lives. Kent Thompson, Denver Center for the Performing Arts, USA UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 304 pages PB 9781350001756 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781350001794 • £75.00 / $102.00 How do you develop the craft of directing as well Individual eBook 9781350001770 as a professional career in freelance directing Library eBook 9781350001763 Methuen Drama in today's theatre industry? Drawing on his own World English extensive experience, and that of other theatre professionals from the US and UK, Kent Thompson illuminates a pathway from training, apprenticeship and assistant directing to an established career as

a director. It lays out paths for aspirant directors to train, grow and succeed as directors, then advises freelance directors on how to Puppetry in Theatre and Arts establish and accelerate their professional careers. It also reveals the Education most significant ways those directors become artistic directors today. Head, Hands and Heart UK January 2019 • US January 2019 • 272 pages Johanna Smith, California State University, San PB 9781474288767 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781474288774 • £60.00 / $82.00 Individual eBook 9781474288781 Bernardino, USA Library eBook 9781474288750 A textbook for students and teachers of theatre in Series: Introductions to Theatre • Methuen Drama education, schoolteachers, teaching artists outside of traditional school environments and puppetry enthusiasts, showing how puppetry can enliven classrooms, offering educational strategies and lesson plans to open out any syllabus and unlock new methods Introduction to the Art of Stage of learning. It provides fun and inexpensive interdisciplinary puppetry activities for educators and artists. Written in accessible language, and Management featuring exercises and essential advice, it is a core text for theatre A Practical Guide to Working in the education courses as well as an essential addition to any teacher’s Theatre and Beyond arsenal of teaching strategies. Michael Vitale, Los Angeles Philharmonic, USA UK February 2019 • US February 2019 • 160 pages • 77 bw illus "Michael Vitale’s new stage management text PB 9781350012912 • £19.99 / $26.95 • HB 9781350012905 • £65.00 / $88.00 Individual eBook 9781350012929 covers crucial processes and venues heretofore Library eBook 9781350012899 unmentioned in the few previous, often somewhat dated books Methuen Drama on the market. His experience in professional theatre, opera, philharmonic and dance, including working with The Hollywood

Bowl’s international assemblage of the world’s best conductors, actors, singers and musicians, makes this a must-have book for any serious stage manager." Dr. Jim Volz, Author, Producer, Educator, The History and Theory of Theatre Critic Environmental Scenography Second Edition UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 240 pages PB 9781474257206 • £23.99 / $32.95 • HB 9781474257190 • £75.00 / $102.00 Arnold Aronson, Columbia University, USA Individual eBook 9781474257213 Library eBook 9781474257220 A classic work of theatre history and criticism when Series: Introductions to Theatre • Methuen Drama first published, Arnold Aronson's formative study surveyed the phenomenon known as environmental theatre, charting its development from the middle ages to the late 20th century. Now updated in this richly illustrated second edition to reflect developments and practice since the 1980s, it offers readers the most comprehensive study of the theatre practice which has evolved from the avant-garde to become the dominant mode of much contemporary innovative performance. New chapters examine how the 'transformed spaces' of earlier work have become the interactive and immersive productions that characterize the productions of companies today.

UK June 2018 • US June 2018 • 272 pages • 47 bw illus PB 9781474283960 • £24.99 / $33.95 • HB 9781474283977 • £75.00 / $102.00 Individual eBook 9781474283984 Library eBook 9781474283991 Series: Performance and Design • Methuen Drama

14 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] Theatre Makers THEATRE PRACTICE The Theatre Makers series celebrates and draws together the work of many of the most seminal theatre makers. Volumes in the series provide an unprecedented insight into the philosophies and methods of the practitioners that have shaped – and continue to define – what theatre is today.

Julius Caesar and Me Julie Hesmondhalgh: A Working Exploring Shakespeare's African Play Diary Paterson Joseph, Actor, UK Julie Hesmondhalgh, Actor, UK In this book, Joseph opens up the process of Julie Hesmondhalgh: A Working Diary looks at rehearsing and preparing for the RSC's acclaimed an incredible year as a jobbing actor and theatre 2012 production of Julius Caesar and, by doing maker. It explores her personal and political growth so, brings a greater understanding to the play's within the Manchester-based grassroots political characters; its rhetoric and the power of rhetoric in theatre company Take Back, which Hesmondhalgh general, both in drama and real life; its setting and political context co-runs, creating protest theatre in response to seismic changes in and how this can be interpreted and refreshed for the 21st century. In the UK's political climate. In addition, it considers her work with Arts addition, it offers an unparalleled insight into an actor's preparations Emergency, supporting young artists from working-class backgrounds. for a role and Joseph's own thoughts on, and philosophy of, the And it considers her own identity post-Coronation Street, confronting theatre. the need to both break with this household identity and also acknowledge its significance. A rich insight into one of the foremost UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 168 pages actors of today. PB 9781350011182 • £18.99 / $25.95 • HB 9781350011229 • £60.00 / $82.00 Individual eBook 9781350011205 • • Library eBook 9781350011199 UK January 2019 US January 2019 224 pages PB 9781350025691 • £16.99 / $22.95 Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama World English Individual eBook 9781350025714 Library eBook 9781350025707 Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama

Contemporary Women Stage

Directors Conversations on Craft Life as a Playwright Paulette Marty, Appalachian State University, A Survival Guide USA Jon Klein, Catholic University of America, USA This book features interviews with the most Life as a Playwright addresses the questions central influential female theatre directors today, including to any playwright's career and very identity. What Vicky Featherstone, Polly Findlay, Leah Gardiner, Blanche McIntyre is a playwright's life like? What should an aspiring and Paulette Randall. Through these interviews, the reader is offered playwright expect? What are the danger zones? in-depth insights into how these directors select projects; how they How can you stand out from the crowd? In addition, engage with scripts and concepts; how they conceptualize their the author looks at situations that the emerging playwright is bound work; the process of collaboration; building a career for themselves; to encounter: handling rehearsals, workshops, castings, re-writing, navigating gender, race and ethnicity; and where theatre is now and venues, reviews, successes and failure. Essentially, it's a practical and where it's going. The book includes an introduction by editor Paulette constructive guide to how to survive an incredible, but - at times - Marty. near-impossible, career as a dramatic writer.

UK March 2019 • US March 2019 • 272 pages UK May 2018 • US May 2018 • 192 pages PB 9781474268530 • £17.99 / $24.95 • HB 9781474268578 • £55.00 / $74.00 PB 9781474285094 • £17.99 / $24.95 Individual eBook 9781474268554 Individual eBook 9781474285117 Library eBook 9781474268547 Library eBook 9781474285100 Series: Theatre Makers • Methuen Drama Methuen Drama World English World English

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 15 9781844571932 9781844577811 we’re

rolling! 9781844578085 9781844574988 BFI books are now available from Bloomsbury

Bloomsbury has been appointed as the BRITISH FILM 9781844575220 9781844577880 INSTITUTE’s publishing partner from May 2018. BFI books and resources are for everyone passionate about film and moving image – from students and scholars to industry practitioners and general film enthusiasts.

Covering all aspects of cinema, books include the flagship 9781844576319 9781844578177 BFI Film Classics series, concise Screen Guides, bestselling introductory textbooks such as The Cinema Book, and scholarly works including the award-winning Cultural Histories of Cinema series. 9781844573417 9781844574650

9781844573448 9781844576753

Be first to hear! Sign up to our Film & Media Studies newsletter for book alerts and offers on BFI products: 9781844571420 9781844573905 www.bloomsbury.com/newsletter

Order BFI books directly from Bloomsbury on www.bloomsbury.com/bfi or through your local sales representative. 9781844574087

BFIAd_210x297mm_v4.indd 2 23/08/2018 09:16 Modern Plays MODERN DRAMA - 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. All Modern Plays are available on inspection / as exam copies on our website.

Agnes Colander All But Gone 9781844571932 9781844577811 Harley Granville Barker Matthew Trevannion "A bona fide revelation." Telegraph "Refreshingly uncynical exploration of the tragedy It is three years since Agnes left her unfaithful of lost love and the enduring hope of survival." The Stage we’re husband Henry. Now he writes to her in her Kensington studio begging to reunite, but Agnes Owen may live in the present but his mind remains married young; her innocence has gone and her lodged firmly in the past. As he's forced into ambition and independence is growing. As she a relationship with a teenager with emotional travels from London to France, Agnes finds herself torn between behavioural problems he blurs aspects of his current life with the Otho, a worldly Danish artist and Alec, an infatuated younger suitor, memories of what might have been and the opportunities and rolling! 9781844578085 9781844574988 between a longing to paint and be an independent woman and a relationships that could have changed his world. Riddled with regret yearning to be loved. This witty exploration of love and independence over the man he loved and the chance to flee rural Wales, he's unable BFI books are now was written in 1900 and unearthed a century later. to detach himself from past mistakes. UK March 2018 • US April 2018 • 80 pages UK March 2018 • US April 2018 • 96 pages PB 9781350077553 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350077140 • £10.99 / $14.95 available from Individual eBook 9781350077577 Individual eBook 9781350077287 Library eBook 9781350077560 Library eBook 9781350077157 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Bloomsbury World English World English

9781844575220 9781844577880 Bloomsbury has been appointed as the BRITISH FILM INSTITUTE’s publishing partner from May 2018. Beginning Brief Encounter David Eldridge Noël Coward BFI books and resources are for everyone passionate about "Eldridge combines a hugely sympathetic Adapted by Emma Rice film and moving image – from students and scholars sensibility with rare dramatic power, and one Noël Coward’s Brief Encounter is remembered as leaves this exceptional play rejoicing in his talent one of the most haunting love stories on screen ever. to industry practitioners and general film enthusiasts. and impatient for his next." Telegraph Drawing on the characteristic wit and musicality of Every story starts somewhere. Kneehigh, Emma Rice, former Joint Artistic Director of the Company, has adapted Coward’s classic 1945 It’s the early hours of the morning and Danny’s the Covering all aspects of cinema, books include the flagship 9781844576319 9781844578177 screenplay, and the one-act play Still Life on which it was based, into a last straggler at Laura’s party. The flat’s in a mess. And so are they. One richly theatrical, imaginative and vibrant piece of theatre. BFI Film Classics series, concise Screen more drink? Kneehigh’s production received its world premiere in 2008. This David Eldridge (Festen, Market Boy)'s sharp and astute two-hander Guides edition is published to coincide with the production’s run at the , bestselling introductory textbooks such as takes an intimate look at the first fragile moments of risking your heart Empire Cinema in London’s West End for 2018, co-produced by Steve and taking a chance. The Cinema Book, and scholarly works including the and Jenny Wiener and The Old Vic.

UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 96 pages Cultural Histories UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 72 pages award-winning PB 9781350061262 • £10.99 / $14.95 • Individual eBook 9781350061286 PB 9781350083578 £10.99 / $14.95 of Cinema series. Library eBook 9781350061279 Individual eBook 9781350083608 Library eBook 9781350083585 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama 9781844573417 9781844574650 • World English Series: Modern Plays Methuen Drama World English

9781844573448 9781844576753

Be first to hear! Sign up to our Film & Media Studies newsletter for book alerts and offers on BFI products: 9781844571420 9781844573905 www.bloomsbury.com/newsletter

Order BFI books directly from Bloomsbury on www.bloomsbury.com/bfi or through your local sales representative. www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 9781844574087 17

BFIAd_210x297mm_v4.indd 2 23/08/2018 09:16

Child of the Divide Confidence Sudha Bhuchar Judy Upton Summer 1947. Sixteen million people are on the As another summer season on the seafront gets move between India and the newly-formed Pakistan. underway Ella is turning up the heat in a high stakes Amid the violent political upheaval, young Pali’s game to get as far away as possible. Whilst Ruby fingers slip from his father’s hand, and his destiny keeps the café going and Dean mans the ice cream changes forever. kiosk Ella learns there’s no fast track to success. Lost, dispossessed and alone, Pali is saved by a Judy Upton's coming of age drama first exploded Muslim family and given a new name, a new faith and a new life. onto the stage in 1998 at the Birmingham Rep. This new edition has Seven years later his real father returns to claim him and Pali is forced been published to coincide with Boundless Theatre's 20th anniversary to decide who he is: the Hindu boy he was born to be, the Muslim boy revival at the Southwark Playhouse in May 2018. he has become, or simply a child of the divide. UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 112 pages • UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 96 pages PB 9781350087453 £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350059405 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350087477 Individual eBook 9781350059429 Library eBook 9781350087460 Library eBook 9781350059412 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Flood Fatherland James Phillips Simon Stephens, Scott Graham & Karl Hyde "A visually stunning, and deeply moving, drama Fatherland is a bold, ambitious play about about belonging" The Stage contemporary fatherhood in all its complexities and One day it starts to rain and no-one knows why. And MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS contradictions. This daring collage of words, music it doesn’t stop. Far out on the North Sea a fisherman and movement confronts the complexities and raises a girl in his net, miraculously alive from the contradictions of contemporary fatherhood. deep sea. Is she one of the migrants now washing A vivid, urgent and deeply personal portrait of 21st- up on English shores? Or someone sent for some higher purpose? century England at the crossroads of past, present and future, the play This epic collaboration is the culmination of a year-long community is inspired by conversations with fathers and sons from the writers' project. Four parts told across three different mediums, this complete home towns in the heart of the country. Tender and tough, honest and text includes four dramas that ask fundamental questions about our true, Fatherland is a vital and necessary show about what we were, future, communities and our collective responsibilities. who we are and what we’d like to become. UK August 2017 • US October 2017 • 208 pages PB 9781350060128 • £14.99 / $20.95 UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 80 pages Individual eBook 9781350060555 PB 9781350091504 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350091535 Library eBook 9781350060562 Library eBook 9781350091511 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Glengarry Glen Ross Frogman: a coming-of-age play David Mamet using live theatre and Virtual Winner of the 1984 Pulitzer Prize for Drama Reality Lies. Greed. Corruption. It’s business as usual. curious directive Set in an office of cut-throat Chicago salesmen, four Summer 1995, the Great Barrier Reef. Police divers increasingly desperate employees will do anything, hover, looking for traces of Ashleigh by torchlight. legal or otherwise, to sell the most real estate. Meera is eleven. It's her first sleepover with Lily Pitched in a high-stakes competition against each and Shaun. Cassette recordings from the radio, other, as time and luck start to run out the mantra is simple: close the Sega Mega Drive, and the ‘coral club’ descends into theories about deal and you've won a Cadillac; blow the lead and you're f****d. Ashleigh. This new edition of the 1983 Olivier Award-winning Best Play was Outside over the reef, the Frogman hovers, looking for traces of a published to coincide with a new 2017 West End revival starring missing child. As police search lights refract through the ocean, the Christian Slater. annual coral bloom is due, creating an underwater snowstorm. Time is running out. UK November 2017 • 80 pages PB 9781350067370 • £10.99 Frogman is a coming-of-age thriller exploring the fragility of the Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama childhood imagination. A ground-breaking Virtual Reality / live theatre Commonwealth (excluding Canada)/UK/Open Market hybrid.

UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 80 pages PB 9781350086838 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350086852 Library eBook 9781350086845 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

18 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS

Great Expectations Grimly Handsome a Twenty-First-Century Adaptation Julia Jarcho Tom Crowley 2013 Obie Award for Best New American Play In this modern day re-imagining of Charles Dickens' Last night I woke up and found that I was not at classic story, Pip is a boy from a council estate with home. And I was not wearing my own clothes. no money, and no hope for the future. His life is In an unnamed American city, two strangers sell changed forever after he meets mysterious fugitive Christmas trees on the sidewalk; two cops work Magwycz, the beautiful but troubled Estella and the to solve a killing spree; and a young woman finds fearsome, wounded Miss Havisham. herself transforming in ways she could never have imagined. Catapulting Dickens' beloved characters into the 21st century, Tom A darkly comic thriller exploring the margins of a city and the violent Crowley's adaption captures all the humour, humanity and adventure fantasies they inspire. Published alongside the UK premiere at the of the original with its timeless themes of unrequited love, the divide Royal Court Theatre. between the rich and the poor, and what it means to be ‘good'.

UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 80 pages UK December 2017 • US January 2018 • 120 pages PB 9781350066366 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350073449 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350066380 Individual eBook 9781350073463 Library eBook 9781350066373 Library eBook 9781350073456 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Hard Times Gundog Deborah McAndrew & Charles Dickens Simon Longman "Deborah McAndrew puts an intelligent new slant Winner of the George Devine Award for Most on a classic novel" The Observer Promising Playwright Imagine a world where imagination is forbidden. On a farm in the middle of nowhere, sisters Becky Coketown is such a place. Thomas Gradgrind will and Anna try to hold their family together after not permit fanciful thoughts in his school or his the death of their mother. Time is always moving home. But what effect will this policy have on his somewhere – but here it’s very quiet. own children? How can he protect them from corrupting influences – When they discover a stranger wandering aimlessly across the land, especially when the circus comes to town? the three establish an unlikely partnership in their determination Dark satanic mills, interrupted by the colour and vibrancy of Sleary’s to survive. Simon Longman's Royal Court debut premiered at the Circus, set the stage for a sweeping tale of suppressed love, seduction Jerwood Theatre Upstairs in February 2018. and social mores, peopled with exaggerated characters Dickens is celebrated for. UK January 2018 • US February 2018 • 128 pages PB 9781350068773 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350068797 UK February 2018 • US March 2018 • 112 pages Library eBook 9781350068780 PB 9781350083103 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350083127 World English Library eBook 9781350083110 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle How to Disappear Simon Stephens Morna Pearson "Wondrously stealthy play" New York Times Winner of the Catherine Johnson Award for Best In this uncertain world, who can predict what brings Play people together? When two strangers meet by When Helen Daniels from Neighbours died, Robert chance amidst the bustle of a crowded London train shut his door on the world. And he’s not opened station, their lives are changed forever. Brimming it since. Now his only connection to the outside with blazing theatrical life it explores the uncertain and often comical world is through his younger sister Isla, who looks sparring match that is human connection. after them both whilst their father is away in Ibiza on ‘business’. With only a strange menagerie of creatures to keep them company, each Heisenberg: The Uncertainty Principle made its UK premiere in the day looks pretty much the same as the last until their quiet lives are West End in a thrilling production starring Kenneth Cranham and Anne interrupted by a visit from Jessica, a benefit assessor, determined to Marie Duff, directed by Marianne Elliot. prove that Robert is fit for work.

UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 64 pages UK December 2017 • US December 2017 • 88 pages PB 9781350064850 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350064874 PB 9781350075672 • £10.99 / $14.95 Library eBook 9781350064867 Individual eBook 9781350075696 Library eBook 9781350075689 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 19

Jellyfish Kings Ben Weatherill Oli Forsyth Agnes and her daughter Kelly have walked the "A compelling work with a bold political heart." same stretch of Skegness beach every day for The Stage fifteen years. They devour ice cream, hunt for crabs Bess and Hannah are waiting. Sleeping rough on the and watch as things mysteriously vanish along the streets of London they’re hoping for help to arrive shoreline. But when Kelly meets Neil, their cosy and for life to change, but they’ve been waiting for world soon begins to unravel. a long time. Until, that is, they meet Caz, a young With her mum struggling to understand the needs of a maturing woman who's not content to sit quietly, she’s far more interested in daughter with Down’s Syndrome, Kelly and Neil have to fight for their taking what she needs. As Bess and Hannah get drawn further into this right to be together. Jellyfish is the story of a first kiss, chips by the new way of thinking they discover a power in their position that opens beach and coming of age in modern Britain. up a world of change.

UK June 2018 • US July 2018 • 128 pages UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 112 pages PB 9781350091993 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350062085 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350092013 Individual eBook 9781350062108 Library eBook 9781350092006 Library eBook 9781350062092 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Labour of Love Mood Music James Graham Joe Penhall Winner of the 2018 Olivier Award for Best New "A fine play that raises a host of issues without Comedy ever trying to resolve them." Guardian

MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS Labour MP David Lyons cares about modernisation In a top London recording studio, Cat, a young and "electability"... his constituency agent, Jean songwriter, her producer Bernard, their lawyers and Whittaker cares about principles and her community. psychotherapists go to battle over who owns a hit Set away from the Westminster bubble in the party's song. Amidst a gathering storm of bitter complaints traditional northern heartlands, this is a clash of philosophy, culture and brutal recriminations Cat and Bernard inflict a devastating toll on and class against the backdrop of the Labour Party over 25 years, as it each other in a war that only one of them can win. moves from Kinnock through Blair into Corbyn... and beyond? A sly, wry exploration of the dark side of the music industry by the This razor-sharp political comedy from James Graham was produced multi-Olivier Award-winning writer of Sunny Afternoon and Blue/ by Michael Grandage Company and Headlong andreceived its world Orange, Joe Penhall. Premiere at the Noël Coward Theatre in September 2017. UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 96 pages • UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 128 pages PB 9781350089914 £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350063679 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350089938 Individual eBook 9781350063693 Library eBook 9781350089921 Library eBook 9781350063686 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Not Talking National Theatre Connections Mike Bartlett 2018 If I don’t want to tell anyone, it’s up to me, right? The Blue Electric Wind; The Changing Lucy knows James has avoided the battle. Mark Room; The Free9; The Ceasefire Babies; knows Amanda has fought for her life. But speaking These Bridges; When They Go Low; Want; the truth could bring everything crashing down. The Sweetness of a Sting; Dungeness What happens if we live a life of not talking? Brad Birch, Chinonyerem Odimba, Alice Birch, Olivier Award-winning writer Mike Bartlett's gripping and lyrical Chris Bush, In-Sook Chappell, Fiona Doyle, Phoebe Éclair Powell, first play unlocks a culture of silence, and gives voice to the human Natalie Mitchell & Barney Norris casualties when things are easier done than said. This edition was Drawing together the work of nine leading playwrights, National published to coincide with a new production at the Arcola Theatre and Theatre Connections 2018 features work by some of the most exciting features an introduction by the author. contemporary playwrights. Gathered together in one volume, the UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 72 pages plays offer young performers an engaging selection of material to PB 9781350089723 • £10.99 / $14.95 perform, read or study. Individual eBook 9781350089747 Library eBook 9781350089730 From friends building bridges and siblings breaking down walls; Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama girls making their voice heard and boys searching for home; and not World English forgetting a band of unlikely action heroes taking control of the weather. The anthology contains nine play scripts along with imaginative production notes and exercises, as well as a short introduction to the writing process.

UK June 2018 • US July 2018 • 656 pages PB 9781350066243 • £19.99 / $26.95 Individual eBook 9781350066267 Library eBook 9781350066250 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

20 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS

Quiz Rails James Graham Simon Longman April 2003. Army Major Charles Ingram, his wife and Mike is a 16 year old with a bully of a brother and a coughing accomplice are convicted for cheating on mum who doesn’t speak. Sarah is a weed smoking Who Wants to Be a Millionaire? teen who can’t wait to get out of their dead-end town. One hot summer their lives collide in a blur The evidence is damning. The nation is gripped of hormones, loneliness and dreaming as they by the sheer audacity of the plot to snatch the discover that growing up is just as confusing as they £1,000,000 jackpot. But was he really guilty? It’s time say. Funny, poignant, and sharply reminiscent of the joy, pain and for you to decide. confusion of growing up, Rails explores what it means to feel lonely in Question everything you think you know in James Graham’s a forgotten and isolated corner of the world. provocative new play. Olivier Award-winning James Graham returns with a sharp, fictional UK May 2018 • US June 2018 • 112 pages PB 9781350089303 • £10.99 / $14.95 imagination of one of the most famous quiz show controversies to Individual eBook 9781350089327 date. Library eBook 9781350089310 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English UK April 2018 • US April 2018 • 112 pages PB 9781350069299 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350069312 Library eBook 9781350069305

Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Saint George and the Dragon Rory Mullarkey

"There are ticklish jokes and moments of enjoyable mischief." Evening Standard Rita, Sue and Bob Too A village. A dragon. A damsel in distress. Andrea Dunbar Into the story walks George: wandering knight, "Dunbar’s play is as fresh as a stiff northerly wind freedom fighter, enemy of tyrants the world over. off the Pennines. The story is bursting with a One epic battle later and a nation is born. gutsy vitality." London Evening Standard As the village grows into a town, and the town into a city, the myth Best friends Rita and Sue get a lift home from of Saint George which once brought a people together, threatens to married Bob after babysitting his kids. When he divide them. takes the scenic route and offers them a bit of fun, the three start a fling each of them think they control. A new retelling of the popular British folk tale for our 'uncertain' nation. Andrea Dunbar’s semi-autobiographical play, written in 1982, is a vivid portrait of girls caught between brutal childhood and an unpromising UK October 2017 • US November 2017 • 144 pages future, both hungry for adult adventure. PB 9781350064430 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350064454 UK September 2017 • US October 2017 • 96 pages Library eBook 9781350064447 PB 9781350061460 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350061477 World English Library eBook 9781350061484 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

Snow in Midsummer Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig Silk Road (How to Buy Drugs "Gripping and affecting… graceful and Online) and Rules for Being a impassioned." Times Executed for a murder she did not commit, young Man widow Dou Yi vows that if she is innocent snow will Alex Oates fall in midsummer and a catastrophic drought will "This is new writing at its best" Public Reviews strike. Three years later, a businesswoman visits Silk Road: Bruce is 19, unemployed and living with the parched, locust-plagued town to take over an ailing factory. his Nan. A struggling young Geordie tech-head, When her young daughter is tormented by an angry ghost, the new he’s the unlikeliest international criminal mastermind you can imagine. factory owner must expose the injustices Dou Yi suffered before the Sucked into an underworld dark-web of new-age pirates, local curse destroys every living thing. Snow in Midsummer premiered at gangsters and tea-cosies, it isn’t long before Bruce discovers how easy Stratford-Upon-Avon in 2017 and has been republished to coincide it is to buy narcotics online. with the American premiere.

Rules For Being a Man: a stirring new play that uses silent disco UK February 2018 • US February 2018 • 112 pages technology to create a vivid soundscape and take the audience into PB 9781350068063 • £10.99 / $14.95 the heads of three generations of men as they struggle with mental Individual eBook 9781350068087 Library eBook 9781350068070 health issues and contemplate suicide. Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English UK January 2018 • US February 2018 • 64 pages PB 9781350079595 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350079618 Library eBook 9781350079601 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 21

The Cherry Orchard The Comedy About a Bank Anton Chekhov Robbery Translated by Rory Mullarkey Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer & Henry Shields "Rory Mullarkey’s translation is supple and "Thrilling and daringly inventive...This lung- authoritative." The Observer bustingly funny play is just what the therapist The tide of change is coming. Madam Ranyevskaya's ordered." Guardian liberal world of privilege and pleasure is beginning Written by Henry Lewis, Jonathan Sayer and Henry to show cracks, but she and her family live on in Shields of Mischief Theatre, creators of the Olivier denial. Lopakhin wants to rescue Ranyevskaya. The hard-working son Award-winning Best New Comedy The Play That Goes Wrong and of one of her family's serfs, his new-found wealth can offer shelter Peter Pan Goes Wrong, The Comedy About A Bank Robbery is the and security to the woman he has loved since boyhood, but it will latest adventure in mishap, mistimed exits and entrances, and disaster come at a high price. Meanwhile, revolution hangs in the air, the poor unfolding in front of the audience's eyes. This new edition contains the and hungry are pushing at the doors, and tutor Trofimov predicts a full up-to-date script to match the West End production. tumultuous change for everybody. UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 112 pages UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 88 pages PB 9781350063082 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350086029 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350063105 Individual eBook 9781350086043 Library eBook 9781350063099 Library eBook 9781350086050 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

The Firm The Culture - a Farce in Two Acts Roy Williams James Graham In a pub in London ‘The Firm’ reunite for the first MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS "Juggles satire and farce in a knockabout time in twelve years. Back in their misspent youth celebration of Hull’s tenure as UK city of culture." they were a notorious criminal gang; these days Guardian they’re older, wiser, and their lives have changed January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of beyond recognition. But when an uninvited guest Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to turns up to the party with an intriguing proposition ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. and an explosive secret it’s clear they might be tempted to try their Meanwhile, the monitoring and evaluation team have to present The hands at one last job. Will they escape their past unscathed? Audit – a measurement of the impact ‘the culture’ has had on the city. Roy Williams’ gripping new play is a tale of growing up, lifelong Can their logic models, outcome evaluations and statistical analyses loyalties and how sometimes, it is possible to choose your own family. really measure its impact on the people of Hull? The visiting Minister

certainly expects so. What could go wrong? UK October 2017 • US November 2017 • 96 pages PB 9781350065444 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350065468 UK January 2018 • US February 2018 • 104 pages Library eBook 9781350065451 PB 9781350080140 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350080164 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Library eBook 9781350080157 World English Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

The Greatest Play in the History The Great Wave of the World Francis Turnly Ian Kershaw "This truth-based story of abduction is an urgent, A man wakes in the middle of the night to discover resonant piece of theatre" Financial Times that the world has stopped. On a Japanese beach, teenage sisters Hanako and Through the crack in his bedroom curtains he can Reiko are caught up in a storm. Reiko survives while see no signs of life at all...other than a light in the Hanako is lost to the sea. Their mother, however, house opposite where a woman in an oversized can’t shake the feeling her missing daughter is still Bowie T-shirt stands, looking back at him. alive, and soon family tragedy takes on a global political dimension. The Greatest Play in the History of the World is a beautifully This major new play, winner of the Catherine Johnson Best Play Award, constructed love story, set on Preston Road and also in space and premiered at the National Theatre in Spring 2018. in time. Presented as a monologue, it asks profound questions with deep sincerity whilst simultaneously balancing the human quest for UK March 2018 • US March 2018 • 136 pages meaningful connections. PB 9781350076259 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350076273 UK July 2018 • US August 2018 • 64 pages Library eBook 9781350076266 PB 9781350089648 • £10.99 / $14.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Individual eBook 9781350089662 World English Library eBook 9781350089655 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English

22 www.bloomsbury.com • UK, Europe, ROW • +44 (0)1256 302692 • [email protected] MODERN DRAMA - PLAYS

The Seagull The Secret Theatre Anton Chekhov Anders Lustgarten Adapted by Simon Stephens "Lustgarten is a fierce writer whose activism "An incisive 21st-century version of Chekhov" blends intellectual curiosity and idealism" - Guardian Evening Standard Chekhov’s celebrated masterpiece is given vibrant Spymaster Sir Francis Walsingham oversees a vast new life in this dynamic new version by Olivier surveillance network from the heart of Elizabeth award-winning playwright Simon Stephens. I’s court. As the nation’s relationship with Europe deteriorates and civil unrest grows, Walsingham adopts ever more Switching effortlessly between the ridiculous and the profound The extreme tactics to keep his queen and country safe. But does he risk Seagull forensically examines the transcendence and destructiveness losing control of the apparatus he has created and destroying the lives of love. The burning need to create art and how harshly that need can of those closest to him? And can such safety ever be achieved? be crushed permeates throughout the play. Shot through with moments of the blackest humour, this is a smart, Simon Stephens' new adaption of The Seagull received its premiere at tense thriller. the Lyric Hammersmith, London on 3 October 2017.

UK November 2017 • US December 2017 • 80 pages UK October 2017 • US October 2017 • 112 pages PB 9781350065277 • £10.99 / $14.95 PB 9781350064393 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350066229 Individual eBook 9781350064416 Library eBook 9781350066212 Library eBook 9781350064409 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English World English

Tremor Black and She's Leaving Home Brad Birch Keith Saha Once our lives are touched by tragedy, can we ever With bracing insight into the worlds of two young truly move on? Sophie and Tom’s relationship fell women with very different struggles, Black and She’s apart in the aftermath of a catastrophe. Four years Leaving Home force the issues of modern Britain to on and as they come face to face once again, the take centre stage. aftershocks of that fateful day can still be felt. Black: Nikki doesn’t think her dad is a racist. But Tremor is a play about now. It’s about how we when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, choose to see things and live our lives in a world riven with tension, the dog won’t stop barking, the local kids start lobbing stones, and anxiety and division. This thrilling new play by Brad Birch, recipient of her dad starts laying down the law. the Harold Pinter Commission, offers a taught, intense and thrilling two-hander. She's Leaving Home: At 15, Kelsey has her whole life in front of her. As the years roll by she realises that leaving home to fulfill her dreams UK April 2018 • US May 2018 • 72 pages isn’t as easy as she imagined. PB 9781350087828 • £10.99 / $14.95 Individual eBook 9781350087842 • • Library eBook 9781350087835 UK April 2018 US April 2018 88 pages PB 9781350085190 • £12.99 / $17.95 Series: Modern Plays • Methuen Drama World English Individual eBook 9781350085213 Library eBook 9781350085206 Series: Plays for Young People • Methuen Drama World English

OBJECTLESSONS Explore the hidden lives of ordinary things

OBJECTLESSONS OBJECTLESSONS

pill potato ROBERT BENNETT REBECCA EARLE

9781628922653 9781501338175 9781501338137 9781501325991 9781501341946 9781501344312 9781501333408

Visit www.bloomsbury.com/objectlessons to browse the entire series

www.bloomsbury.com • USA, Canada, Latin America • 888-330-8477 • [email protected] 23 Contemporary Dramatists

The Contemporary Dramatists series celebrates the work of individual writers, bringing together into single volumes a number of plays The Methuen Drama Book of from their oeuvre. Each volume includes a chronology of the writer's Suffrage Plays: Taking the Stage work and an introduction to the plays featured. Taken as a whole, it Might is Right; Free Woman to Free Man; represents an index of great contemporary playwriting. A Woman's Influence; Press Cuttings; Woman This and Women That; The Twelve Pound Look; For One Night Only; Birch Plays: 1 Her Will; Su L'Pave; Which; 10 Clowning Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even Street; Anti Suffrage Waxworks Stillness Breathes Softly Against a Brick Edited by Naomi Paxton Wall; The Brink; Black Mountain Featuring a wide variety of short pieces and one-act plays written by Brad Birch female and male suffragist writers between 1908-1914. "Brad Birch is a courageous writer, tackling Spanning different styles and genres they explore many issues that complex ideas with a wit and deftness and interested feminist and suffragist campaigners such as: the value of challenging our notion of the stories which make women’s work; domestic and economic inequality; visibility in public us feel comfortable." Vicky Featherstone, Artistic Director of the space; direct action and its consequences; sexual double standards; Royal Court and the influence of the media on public opinion. Birch Plays: 1 celebrates the work of Welsh writer Brad Birch. Winner Edited and introduced by Dr Naomi Paxton, the anthology is of the 2016 Harold Pinter Commission, Birch's work has been brimming with in-depth knowledge, photographs and contextual produced around the world in Russia, the USA and Europe. This information making for an informative and inspirational volume that’s remarkable collection includes Where the Shot Rabbits Lay; Even perfect for both performance and study. Stillness Brea