The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2: : Methuen Drama Play Collections Leanna Keyes Methuen Drama

The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 2

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.

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

Product details

Published	Sep 18 2025
Format	Paperback
Edition	1st
Extent	512
ISBN	9781350458093
Imprint	Methuen Drama
Dimensions	9 x 6 inches
Series	Methuen Drama Play Collections
Publisher	Bloomsbury Publishing

Precisely what my students and I had hoped for. With these eight plays, each accompanied by an intelligent introduction, the collection highlights how trans writers play with time in order to shed light on-and undermine-the strictures of white Western heteronormativity.

Cincinnati Review (on Volume 1)
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)
Delivers an intersectional and diverse collection of trans plays, and self-reflexively advocates for the need to amplify trans voices. Both the openness and absences in this collection hold exactly to that provocation: the trans community has more to say, and their voices require more stages on which to be heard.

Platform Journal of Theatre and Performing Arts (on Volume 1)