AUTUMN RELEASES

Bloomsbury Publishing announce a raft of new releases for this autumn including a new re-edited New Mermaids edition of John Webster’s The White Devil. Exploring the challenges of staging this highly melodramatic play, Lara Bovilsky guides students through the most interesting points of its rich performance history.

A Teacher’s Guide to Musical Theatre is perfect for any teacher planning or thinking about teaching Musical Theatre and hot off the press are 2 new Arden Performance Editions, As You Like It and The

Tempest with performance notes on Shakespeare’s popular plays.

Their popular Plays for Young People series is continuing to grow with two new plays for students 16+, BONES by Tanika Gupta and The Ancestors by Lakesha Arie-Angelo. Plus, the 2nd volume of Positive Stories for Negative Times by WonderFools, also in the series, was published on 4th November.

The National Theatre Connections 2020/1 play anthology is now available, alongside a teacher webinar with the National Theatre Connections and some of the 2021 playwrights to talk through their plays. The recording is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=LptkzT9aU9k&t=4s

The new Methuen Drama Student Edition of DNA includes a commentary by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which looks at the play’s context, themes, dramatic form, staging possibilities and production history, plus offers students suggestions for further reading.

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