Finalist in the 2022 Lambda Literary Awards for the LGBTQ Anthology category
The 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 From groundbreaking new work from across America's stages to unpublished work by new voices, these plays address themes such as gender identity and expression to racial and religious attitudes toward love and sex.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 Kaufman
The Betterment Society by Mashuq Mushtaq Deen
how to clean your room by j. chavez
She He Me by Raphaë l Amahl Khouri
The Devils Between Us by Sharifa Yasmin
Doctor Voynich and Her Children by Leanna Keyes
Firebird Tattoo by Ty Defoe
Crooked Parts by Azure Osborne-Lee
Inhaltsverzeichnis
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: Raphaë l Amahl Khouri's Queer Documentary Theatre by Melory Mirashrafi
9. She He Me by Raphaë l 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
