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Discover 150 plays by writers of colour and traditionally underrepresented voices
At Bloomsbury, home of Methuen Drama, the Arden Shakespeare and Drama Online, we work hard to diversify the voices and stories we publish. Now we’re bringing our unique focus on drama texts to the Lit in Colour campaign in collaboration with Penguin Books UK and the Runnymede Trust, supporting schools to make the teaching and learning of English Literature and Drama more inclusive.
Below you’ll find information about over 80 plays by writers of colour, as well as 60 more by the same authors, so you can dig deeper into a playwright’s portfolio. In light of the Lit in Colour research report, this list includes Black, Asian, Jewish and other Minority Ethnic writers. The plays are taken from the 2023 and 2024 versions of the The (Incomplete) Lit in Colour Play List, whose title acknowledges that this list will inevitably be incomplete with further lists to be released annually.
All of the plays listed below are available here on Drama Online and your access will depend on the Drama Online collections to which your institution has subscribed. Details of the collection in which each play sits can be found here. Any plays with an asterisk (*) next to them are also available in a video or audio collection.
