Full Description
"This anthology is special: a book of trans plays about trans life as it is actually, materially lived in time and space". - Theatre Survey on Volume 1.
The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2 offers eight new plays by trans playwrights centering trans characters, trans life, and gender diversity.
Curated via an open submission policy, this book brings together dramatic works that feature nuanced, authentic, and wonderfully messy representations of gender, race, and sexuality.
Alongside the full scripts, all of which are published here for the first time, this anthology series also includes a wide range of critical essays to inspire deeper understanding of the works, playwrights, and interventions these plays make in the theatrical ecology.
Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee Cook
Red Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
Degenerates by Else Went
Close to Home by Sharifa Yazmeen
The Bugs by Sloka Krishnan
The Skin of Other Men by Fig Lefevre
Oh, Buddy by Hal Cosentino
Gender Play, or what you Will co-created by Will Wilhelm and Erin Murray
Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, the plays and companion essays in this anthology explicitly call for expansive approaches to trans characters, themes, and aesthetics in order to promote opportunities for trans artists, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.
Contents
Preface by Leanna Keyes
Introduction by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, and Angela Farr Schiller
Part One: Underworld
Circling Time: Cercle Hermaphroditos and the Continuum of Trans History
by Joshua Bastian Cole-Kurz
Cercle Hermaphroditos by Shualee Cook
The Limitlessness of Red Rainbow
by Esperanza Rosales Balcárcel
Red Rainbow by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
Online Communities and Gender Performances
by Jessica Elaine Ellison
Degenerates by Else Went
Part Two: Earth
Building a Home, or, The Labor of Queer Kinship
by Ali-Reza Mirsajadi
Close to Home by Sharifa Yazmeen
Fluid Tactics: Sloka Krishnan in Conversation with Maxe Crandall
by Maxe Crandall and Sloka Krishnan
The Bugs by Sloka Krishnan
"Our Edges are Connected": Glitching Touch in The Skin of Other Men
by Percival Hornak
The Skin of Other Men by Fig Lefevre
Part Three: Sky
Un-Structuring Gender: The Trans-Relational World of Oh, Buddy
by Ellenor Riley-Condit
Oh, Buddy by Hal Cosentino
"I feel now the future in the instant": Magic and Utopia in Gender Play
by Linnea Valdivia
Gender Play, or what you Will
co-created by Will Wilhelm and Erin Murray
