The Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays Volume 3

Young Adult Edition

Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan, Angela Farr Schiller

• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Year: 2026
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350514898
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Drama
• Index: Literature

Playwrights in Volume 3 agree: "These are the plays we wish we had."

The third volume in the Methuen Drama Book of Trans Plays series offers nine new plays by trans playwrights featuring trans characters. This volume focuses on young characters whose ages range from twelve to late twenties.

Following the critical and commercial success of the first two volumes, this edited collection supports the expanding landscape of contemporary American trans theatre, which represents a variety of performance modes and genres.

These plays address themes such as coming of age, parents and family (found and biological), athletics, dating , and navigating hostile political and social terrains. This third volume also includes short introductory essays that accompany each of the plays to support a deeper understanding of the work.

The Interrobangers by M. Sloth Levine
Magic Girl!... And Her Demons by Charlotte Snow
t4t by Jessica Scott
The Brunch Crowd by Dillon Yruegas
The More The Man by Jameson P. Murray
Man and Moon by Siena Marilyn Chongchua-Morris
Caeneus by Samuel Achilles
Unfair Advantage by Tyler Rocio Ecoña
Tides by Eliana Rubin

Edited by Leanna Keyes, Lindsey Mantoan and Angela Farr Schiller, 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.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Halftitle page
• Title page
• Copyright page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Acknowledgements
• Licensing
• Play Synopses
• Biographies
• Introduction
• Part 1: Exploring the Dark Places
• Notes on Playing (with Monsters) in the Fog: Mysteries of Queer Adolescence in M Sloth Levine’s The Interrobangers
• The Interrobangers
• Faustian Utopia: Jouissance and Cruel Optimism in Charlotte Snow’s Magic Girl
• Magic Girl ! . . . And Her Demons
• “Bickering with the Bad and Banal: Staging t4t Interregnums”
• t4t
• Part 2: Dance Break
• Nations Made of Stars: An Introduction to The Brunch Crowd, by Dillon Yruegas
• The Brunch Crowd
• “I was lucky I wasn’t born a man”: New Orleansecond Line Parades and Transitions in The More the Man
• The More the Man
• Man, Moon, and the Lorde
• Man and Moon
• Part 3: Waves and Water
• (Extra)ordinary Heroics in Samuel Achilles’s Staging of Trans Antiquity
• Caeneus
• The “Ruhls” of Play: Mythical and Real Currents in Tyler Rocio Ecoña’s Unfair Advantage
• Unfair Advantage
• What We Leave & What We Carry in Eliana Rubin’s Tides
• Tides