Description
Book SynopsisFinalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology categoryThe Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays for the Stage is the first play anthology to offer eight new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This edited collection establishes a canon of contemporary American trans theatre which represents a variety of performance modes and genres. From groundbreaking new work from across America''s stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.Edited by Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller and Leanna Keyes, the plays selected explicitly call for trans characters as central protagonists in order to promote opportunities for trans performers, making this an original and necessary publication for both practical use and academic study.
Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ KaufmanThe Betterment Society by Mashuq
Table of Contents
1. Introduction: “In a Trans Time and Space” by Angela, Leanna, and Lindsey Part One: Disembodied Articulations 2. Introduction to Sagittarius Ponderosa: Waiting, Watching, and Witnessing as Queer Praxis in Sagittarius Ponderosa by Jesse O’Rear 3. Sagittarius Ponderosa by MJ Kaufman 4. Introduction to The Betterment Society: Generations of Language: Mashuq Mushtaq Deen in Conversation with Stephanie Hsu by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen and Stephanie Hsu 5. The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen 6. Introduction to how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma): how to tell time (when you are trans and processing trauma) by Finn Lefevre 7. how to clean your room (and remember all your trauma) by j. chavez Part Two: Fraught Spaces 8. Introduction to She He Me: Witnessing the Revolutionary Mundane: Raphaël Amahl Khouri’s Queer Documentary Theatre by Melory Mirashrafi 9. She He Me by Raphaël Amahl Khouri 10. Introduction to The Devils Between Us: “Challenging Every Memory”: Manifesting Futurity in The Devils Between Us by Yasmin Zacaria Mikhaiel and Ali-Reza Mirsajadi 11. The Devils Between Usby Sharifa Yasmin Part Three: Familiar/Familial 12. Introduction to Doctor Voynich and Her Children: Cruising Dystopia by Jaclyn Pryor 13. Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes 14. Introduction to Firebird Tattoo: Transcending Gender to ‘Soar Above the Earth’ in Ty Defoe’s Firebird Tattoo by Courtney Mohler 15. Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe 16. Introduction to Crooked Parts: All In and Out of the Family: A Critical Introduction to Azure Osborne-Lee’s Crooked Parts by Marquis Bey 17. Crooked Parts by Azure D. Osborne-Lee
