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  • The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

    Volume Two: 1950–2000

    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers and audiences that emerged over this formative hundred‑year period.This second volume covers the second half of the century, constructing an equitable and inclusive history that is more representative of ... Read more

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  • The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance

    Volume One: 1900–1950

    Series series Routledge Companions
    The Routledge Companion to Twentieth Century British Theatre and Performance provides a broad range of perspectives on the multiple models and examples of theatre, artists, enthusiasts, enablers, and audiences that emerged over this formative 100-year period.This first volume covers the first half of the century, constructing an equitable and inclusive history that is more representative of the ... Read more

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  • Black British Queer Plays and Practitioners: An Anthology of Afriquia Theatre

    Basin; Boy with Beer; Sin Dykes; Bashment; Nine Lives; Burgerz; The High Table; Stars

    A bold play collection representing Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Trans, Intersex and Queer (LGBTIQ+) experiences, from Black British perspectives, this anthology contains seven radical plays by Black writers that change the face of theatre in Britain.With an international reach connecting Africa, the Caribbean and the Diaspora, these plays address themes including same-sex love, sex, homophobia, ... Read more

    $29.99 USD

  • Refugee Boy

    Series series Student Editions
    An eye for an eye. It's very simple. You choose your homeland like a hyena picking and choosing where he steals his next meal from. Scavenger. Yes you grovel to the feet of Mengistu and when his people spit at you and kick you from the bowl you scuttle across the border. Scavenger.As a violent civil war rages back home in Ethiopia, teenager Alem and his father are in a bed and breakfast in ... Read more

    $12.79 USD

  • Errol John's Moon on a Rainbow Shawl

    Series series The Fourth Wall
    Errol John wrote Moon on a Rainbow Shawl (1958) after becoming disillusioned about the lack of good roles for black actors on the British theatre scene. While this situation has only slightly improved since, his response has become the most revived black play in Britain, from its original production at the Royal Court in 1958, to the National Theatre in 2012. It depicts the lives of a black ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

  • The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers

    Welcome Home Jacko, Chiaroscuro, Talking in Tongues, Sing Yer Heart Out ..., Fix Up, Gone Too Far!

    Series series Play Anthologies
    The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers provides an essential anthology of six of the key plays that have shaped the trajectory of British black theatre from the late-1970s to the present day. In doing so it charts the journey from specialist black theatre companies to the mainstream, including West End success, while providing a cultural and racial barometer for Britain during ... Read more

    $19.99 USD

  • Modern British Playwriting: 2000-2009

    Voices, Documents, New Interpretations

    Series series Decades of Modern British Playwriting
    Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four/five key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive ... Read more

    $109.39 USD

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