National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People: 2012: Victim Sidekick Boyfriend Me; Journey to X; Little Foot; Prince of Denmark; Socialism is Great; The Grandfathers; Alice by Heart; Generation Next; So You Think You're a Superhero?; The Ritua

Author(s): Hilary Bell

Plays

This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. Power struggles, rites of passage, love and forbidden relationships are some of the rich themes that run through the 2012 cycle of plays. Some are deeply funny, some are provocative and some reflective; and one has really catchy songs! For the 2012 Festival, the anthology has an international feel and offers a window on the world. It includes from Australia a play based on a nineteenth century court case in which a teenage girl was falsely convicted; from Brazil a drama about young lovers doomed to tragedy; set in Russia, a play exploring differing attitudes to National Service and the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991; a drama about students' rights to an education and the Cultural Revolution of 1966 in China; and a comedy involving a group of Irish country girls travelling to London to audition for the X-Factor.

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A collection of ten new plays for young people specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the New Connections Festival 2012 which will involve 200 schools and youth theatre groups in the UK and Ireland. Each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.

Nancy Harris is from Dublin, where her comedy No Romance was a huge hit for the Abbey Theatre in 2011. Paven Virk founded the Second Generation Theatre Company at 17. She has been part of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme, the NFTS Screenwriting for Film & TV Course and the Theatre Royal Stratford East Musical Theatre Writing Residency. Craig Higginson is a novelist, playwright and theatre director. He is the Literary Manager and dramaturge at the Market Theatre, Johannesburg and teaches playwriting at Wits University, Johannesburg, South Africa. Anders Lustgarten is Pearson Playwright-in-Residence at the Finborough Theatre. His plays include A Day at the Racists.

General Fields

  • : 9781408157244
  • : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
  • : Methuen Drama
  • : February 2012
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 37mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : September 2012
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : 560
  • : 822.9208
  • : 1
  • : Paperback
  • : Hilary Bell