Drama Online - Aurora Metro Books

Aurora Metro Books

With over 125 plays, the Aurora Metro Books collection offers a highly contemporary list of new drama with a focus on women’s drama, international drama, drama in translation, and drama by Black and Asian writers.

The black front cover of Harvest by Manjula Padmanabhan

Scrooge's face is reflected in a Christmas ornament on the front cover of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The front cover of The Bomb by Kevin Dyer with a person in a balaclava

A young Muslim woman appears on the front cover of The Diary of a Hounslow Girl by Ambreen Razia

A painting of Malala Yousefza on the front cover of A Girl with a Book and other plays by Nick Wood

A suffragette with Votes for Women painted on her back on the front cover of Votes for Women and other plays edited by Susan Croft

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Trials and Purchasing

This unique collection for the modern classroom offers:

Single plays and collections of Black and Asian drama
Collections of Asian and African drama
Southeast Asian plays collection
Classic plays for family audiences

Topical subjects include:

Arab-Israeli conflict
Homophobia
Political corruption
Muslim identity

Global financial crisis
Immigrant experience
War in Bosnia
Social media

Iran
Yugoslavia
Refugees

Highlights include:

Robin Soans’ verbatim drama The Arab-Israeli Cookbook
Manjula Padmanabhan’s Onassis award-winning play Harvest
Germaine Greer’s version of Lysistrata: the sex strike
Top children’s playwright Charles Way’s many plays for young people
Plus: Roy Williams, Benjamin Zephaniah, Winsome Pinnock, Beverley Naidoo, Gabriela Preissová, Enid Bagnold, Katherine Githa Sowerby, Aphra Behn, and Elizabeth Robins.

Aurora Metro Books

This unique collection for the modern classroom offers:

Topical subjects include:

Highlights include:

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