The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers
Title The Methuen Drama Book of Plays by Black British Writers PDF eBook
Author Mustapha Matura
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 496
Release 2013-10-16
Genre Drama
ISBN 140813098X

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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 the last forty years. It opens with Mustapha Matura's 1979 play Welcome Home Jacko which in its depiction of a group of young unemployed West Indians was one of the first to explore issues of youth culture, identity and racial and cultural identification. Jackie Kay's Chiaroscuro examines debates about the politics of black, mixed race and lesbian identities in 1980s Britain, and from the 1990s Winsome Pinnock's Talking in Tongues engages with the politics of feminism to explore issues of black women's identity in Britian and Jamaica. From the first decade of the twenty-first century the three plays include Roy Williams' seminal pub-drama Sing Yer Hearts Out for the Lads, exploring racism and identity against the backdrop of the World Cup; Kwame Kwei-Armah's National Theatre play of 2004, Fix Up, about black cultural history and progress in modern Britain, and finally Bola Agbage's terrific 2007 debut, Gone Too Far!, which examines questions of identity and tensions between Africans and Caribbeans living in Britain. Edited by Lynnette Goddard, this important anthology provides an essential introduction to the last forty years of British black theatre.

Contemporary Black British Playwrights

Contemporary Black British Playwrights
Title Contemporary Black British Playwrights PDF eBook
Author L. Goddard
Publisher Springer
Pages 263
Release 2015-02-17
Genre Performing Arts
ISBN 1137493100

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This book examines the socio-political and theatrical conditions that heralded the shift from the margins to the mainstream for black British Writers, through analysis of the social issues portrayed in plays by Kwame Kwei-Armah, debbie tucker green, Roy Williams, and Bola Agbaje.

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties

The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties
Title The Methuen Drama Book of Plays from the Sixties PDF eBook
Author Arnold Wesker
Publisher Methuen Drama
Pages 548
Release 2008
Genre Drama
ISBN

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This collection contains major works by some of the most important playwrights to emerge during the late fifties and early sixties, many of them collectively labelled "Angry Young Men", most of them associated with the Royal Court Theatre.

The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays
Title The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays PDF eBook
Author Henrik Ibsen
Publisher Methuen Drama
Pages 0
Release 2010-10-01
Genre Drama
ISBN 9781408128435

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The study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This anthology of six of the most commonly studied and revived Naturalist plays from the European repertoire offers a unique compendium that will serve as required reading for drama courses and is ideal for theatre practitioners and fans. The selected plays perfectly reflect the formal and geographical diversity of Naturalist theatre as well as its major philosophical, political and theatrical preoccupations. A critical introduction by Dr Chris Megson contextualises the emergence of Naturalist theatre in the late nineteenth century, identifying its principal aims and methods; provides an analysis of the selected plays, mapping their key preoccupations, and ends by considering Naturalism's enduring legacy and resonance today.

The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays
Title The Methuen Drama Book of 21st Century British Plays PDF eBook
Author Joe Penhall
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 465
Release 2010-02-26
Genre Drama
ISBN 1408123916

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This collection showcases the five best new plays from the first decade of the twenty-first century and perfectly reflects why British theatre is regarded as the epicenter of vitality, relevance and innovation in drama and the performing arts. Blue/Orange, Elmina's Kitchen, Neilson's Realism, Gone Too Far! and Pornography.

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays
Title The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays PDF eBook
Author Cicely Hamilton
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 161
Release 2013-01-31
Genre Drama
ISBN 1408176599

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The Methuen Drama Book of Suffrage Plays is an anthology of eight exciting pieces written for and by members of the Actresses Franchise League from 1909-13. Immediately playable, they offer strong, varied roles for female casts, while also providing invaluable source material to students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines. Featuring 'How The Vote Was Won' which remains one of the most popular and well known suffrage plays, the volume also includes seven shorter works: 'Lady Geraldine's Speech' (1909), a fantastic, fun piece for actresses. Lady Geraldine hasn't thought through the Suffrage cause and, on a visit to an old school friend meets some charismatic, successful and intelligent women who soon enlighten and encourage her on to the right path! 'Pot and Kettle' (1909), a comic piece in which a young woman returns to her family in great distress having assaulted a suffragette who was sitting near her at a Anti-Suffragist meeting. 'Miss Appleyard's Awakening' about an anti-suffrage campaigner who finds herself in the home of a sympathizer but ends up inadvertently drawing her hostesses' attention to the contradictions in her arguments 'Her Vote' by the actor and playwright Henry Esmond which provides an interesting male viewpoint on the movement, criticizing the young suffragist for wanting to be part of a movement about which she seems to understand little. 'The Anti-Suffragist or The Other Side', a charming, clever monologue about a sheltered young woman who finds herself increasingly involved with her local Anti-Suffrage society and increasingly puzzled by what she learns there. 'The Mother's Meeting', an entertaining monologue that uses a working class character to expose the inconsistencies in the Anti-Suffrage arguments. 'Tradition' was first performed at a matinee for the Woman Suffrage Party held at the Berkeley Theatre in New York City on Saturday 24 January 1913. The plays featured articulate the arguments of the Suffrage Movement through a variety of styles, both comic and serious, and perfectly illustrate the use of drama as a medium for social change and entertainment. Together with illustrations and an introduction charting the history of the Actresses Franchise League and exploring the context and provenance of the plays, this is an excellent resource for both study and performance.

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays

The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays
Title The Methuen Drama Book of New American Plays PDF eBook
Author Sarah Benson
Publisher A&C Black
Pages 526
Release 2013-05-23
Genre Drama
ISBN 1408157012

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This anthology presents six of the best new plays by some of the most exciting American playwrights whose work is currently gaining acclaim. It showcases work produced at a number of the leading theatres as selected by Sarah Benson, artistic director at Soho Rep in New York, and provides a detailed introduction to the plays.