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Global Plays Collection 1

The Global Plays Collection 1 features 100 plays in translation from Bloomsbury’s pre-eminent theatre imprint, Methuen Drama. It showcases the oeuvres of both established and emerging global playwrights, with the majority being translated into English for the first time.

The collection offers work by dramatists from 25 different countries, including India, Nigeria, Argentina, Japan, Ethiopia, Algeria, and Ukraine. Each volume has been masterfully translated by leading practitioners in the field and includes materials which address the works and their themes.

Read our expert essay All the World’s a Stage: Global Theatre in Translation and view linked plays from the collection here.

Book cover for Plays One by Jon Fosse, featuring a dark, shadowy image of a house, slightly tilted, with windows illuminated by a faint greenish light. The house sits against a plain gray backdrop.

Book cover for Ancient, Indigenous, and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora, part of the Global Theatre Anthologies series. The background is a light beige color with an orange-red topographical outline of the African continent in the center. The title, written in large, green serif font, spans the middle of the cover.

Book cover for 'Difficult Women' and Resistant Dramatic Voices: Plays from Contemporary Hungary. The background is primarily white, featuring abstract, overlapping silhouettes of women in bold, vibrant colors such as pink, purple, yellow, and blue.

Book cover for Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution featuring landmark buildings in brights colours

Cover of Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro featuring a portrait photo of the playwright

Book cover of Gendering Taboos featuring a topographical outline of the African continent on a green background and the image of woman in a traditional African dress

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This collection includes:

30 plays by Nobel Prize winner Jon Fosse over 6 volumes, including his seminal work Someone is Going to Come, and his later trilogy A Summer’s Day, Dream of Autumn, and Winter.
Gendering Taboos: 10 Short Plays by African Women, which presents work by the 10 winners of the African Women Playwrights Network’s international competition.
Selected Plays by Griselda Gambaro - a new anthology which offers the Anglophone world a fuller representation of the internationally-acclaimed Argentine dramatist’s work.
Ancient, Indigenous and Modern Plays from Africa and the Diaspora - six plays by writers such as the late, great Nigerian dramatist Duro Lapido, the Ugandan poet and playwright Elvania Namukwaya Zirimu, and Ama Ata Aidoo, who was one of Ghana’s most celebrated playwrights.
Ukrainian New Drama after the Euromaidan Revolution - the first anthology of 21st century Ukrainian plays, this volume brings together key works from the country’s impressively generative post-Revolutionary period, many of them published here in English for the first time.

Global Plays Collection 1

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