Plays, Playscripts

This book explores the possibilities and limitations of violence on the Early Modern stage and in the Early Modern world. This collection is divide...

African Shakespeare: Subversions, Appropriations, Negotiations uncovers the multidimensional inventions, synergies, and experimentations that have ...

Shakespeare and Indian Nationalism aims to articulate the reception of Shakespeare by the 19th-century Indian intelligentsia from Bengal and their ...

January 2018, and a busy day at the offices of Hull 2017. Today is the ceremonial handover to ambassadors from the next UK City of Culture. Meanwhi...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UKs most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development m...

This anthology documents a decade of some of the UKs most exciting queer performance, through a combination of retrospective scripts, development m...

Sonya Kellys rapier wit and intelligent awareness of the human condition, allied to consummate stagecraft skills, have made for what will probably ...

Global King Lear provides a kaleidoscopic view of multinational adaptations of King Lear with a focus on productions across Asia and Eastern Europe...

Sonya Kellys rapier wit and intelligent awareness of the human condition, allied to consummate stagecraft skills, have made for what will probably ...

The incredible journey of a musical from potential disaster to success, and the Broadway industry that managed to stay alive during the pandemic sh...

This collection brings Crotherss best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued relevance to life in the 21st c...

This collection brings Crotherss best plays back into the public eye, outside of archives, to prove their continued relevance to life in the 21st c...

'What's wrong with wanting to dance?' When an orphaned young woman is taken in by some local do-gooders, she is expected to be seen and not heard....

Esther and Schmuli are Orthodox Jews embarking on an arranged marriage, despite barely knowing each other. Abe and Julia are high-profile celebriti...

Why Athena? I guess just like the goddess of strategic warfare and all that. In a New York City fencing club two warriors are ready to battle. At...

You cant live your life thinking everything you text will become public knowledge. Censoring yourself is no way to live. Everyone needs Jim. His m...

How does the act of performance speak to the concept of commemoration? How and why does commemorative theatre operate as a conceptual, historical a...

I came to New York when I was seventeen. I had all these ideas about how my life was gonna turn out. When I think about those ideas now, I dont kno...

Black Matters: Lewis Morrow Plays is a play anthology that maps the impact of emotional, social, cultural, and economic forces that shape the quali...

If I were an animal there would be legislation to protect my home, but because Im just a bloody human they can do whatever the f**k they like. Wel...

THE WORLD'S GREATEST SWORDSMEN...* A major new family comedy set in the world of the Three Musketeers sort of. When the famous Musketeers are lost...

The Incident at Antioch is a key play marking Alain Badiou's transition from classical Marxism to a politics of subtraction far removed from party ...

The plays of María Martínez Sierra were popular in Spain, South America and in translation on Broadway and London's West End in the first half of t...

Since her early break-through at the Royal Court Theatre in 1995, where she won the George Devine award and was joint winner of the Verity Bargate ...