Did you know that many of the Cherry’s English-language premieres have gone on to be published? Buy the published versions of Cherry plays below and see what they look like on the page!
The Mercurian publishes translations of plays and performance pieces from any language into English. In 2025, Cherry Artistic and Executive Director Samuel Buggeln is the guest editor of the first ever Special Issue of The Mercurian, a collaboration with Eurodram, the European Network for theatre translation. Sam leads the English committee of Eurodram.
The Special Issue includes The Geometry of Wheat, a play from Spain written in Spanish (or, as Eurodram prefers, Castilian) and some Catalan; Flood Zone, written in Catalan; two short, non-realistic plays from Italy Little Beast and Focus Group; and a pair of one-act plays from Ukraine Women in the Dark and Men in Daylight.
An Odyssey is an epic community dramedy by Samuel Buggeln, based on the poem The Odyssey by Homer, that premiered at The Cherry Arts and Hangar Theatre in Ithaca. In this bold and exciting new adaptation that transports the audience itself to ancient Greece, the hero might be the person to your left or right.
“Two millennia later, this story has remarkable staying power––even though we know the narrative and its outcome, we’re on the edge of our seats.”
–Barbara Adams, The Ithaca Times (Ithaca, NY)
“An Odyssey is a perfectly brilliant and entertaining adaptation, written with great sensitivity and thoughtfulness. I’m floored by how much the script accomplishes in such a short format, and how effective its choices are. Maybe what comes through most of all is a deep sense of both humor and humanity.”
–Athena Kirk, Associate Professor of Classics, Cornell University (Ithaca, NY)
To purchase:
https://www.youthplays.com/play/an-odyssey-by-samuel-buggeln-686
Argentine playwright Santiago Loza’s collection ‘Nothing to Do with Love’ and Other Plays was published in 2021 by Seagull Books, co-edited and co-translated by Cherry Artistic Director Samuel Buggeln. In 2017, the Cherry produced English-language premières of the title play, on a double-bill with Winter Animals, also in this volume. Other plays in the book are Altitude Sickness, I was Born to See You Smile, and The Saint, which the Cherry débuted in English in 2019, as part of the mini-festival Listen to Her. In 2022 the book received the Honorable Mention for books of theater translation from the American Society for Theater Research!
To purchase:
https://www.seagullbooks.org/nothing-to-do-with-love
Global Queer Plays, published by Oberon Books in 2018, features seven LGBTQ plays from around the world, concluding with Winter Animals by Santiago Loza. In 2017, the Cherry produced the English-language début of Winter Animals as one-half of the double-bill Loza Plays.
The other, equally inspiring plays in this collection are:
Contempt by Danish Sheikh (India)
55 Shades of Gay by Jeton Neziraj,
translated by Alexandra Channer (Kosovo)
No Matter Where I Go by Amahl Khouri (Jordan)
Only the End of the World by Jean-Luc Lagarce,
translated by Lucie Tiberghien (France)
Taste of Love by Zhan Jie, translated by Jeremy Tiang (Taiwan)
Peace Camp Org by Mariam Bazeed (Egypt)
To purchase:
https://www.amazon.com/Global-Queer-Oberon-Modern-Playwrights
David Paquet’s award winning plays Wildfire & The Shoe are dark yet charming comedies that follow absurd stories of loneliness and the human experience. The Cherry produced the English-language premiere of The Shoe, translated by Leanna Brodie, as part of the 2019-2020 season. The subsequent Toronto production of The Shoe won the Jessie Richardson Theatre Award for Outstanding Original Script in 2019.
To purchase:
https://www.canadianplayoutlet.com/products/wildfire-the-shoe-two-plays-by-david-paquet-translated-by-leanna-brodie