Global Theatre from the Cherry Collective: Six New Plays in Translation (Methuen Drama Play Collections)

The best contemporary plays from other countries can bring a strikingly fresh point of view to our English-language stages.Often, they can expand our sense of the playwriting form. For a decade, the Cherry Artists’ Collective in Ithaca, NY, have sought out and developed new and unusual plays from across the globe that speak to English-language artists and audiences. This collection gathers together six award-winning plays in translation hailing from Belgium to El Salvador, France to Mexico and Germany to Québec.Each of the translations has been refined through a full professional rehearsal and production process, and each play sparks an important exploration into the diverse ways in which contemporary issues are currently being explored by great theatre writers from around the world. George Kaplan (Frédéric Sonntag, France) follows a famously fictional spy into a dizzying and darkly hilarious investigation of how conspiracy theories can shape our political realities; On the Other Side