Sabrina Mahfouz, Evan Placey, Simon Vinnicombe, Catherine Johnson, Pauline Mclynn, Daf James, Luke Norris, Sam Holcroft, Matt Hartley, Deborah Bruce

National Theatre Connections 2014 (eBook, PDF)

Plays for Young People: Same; Horizon; The Wardrobe; Heritage; A Letter to Lacey; A Shop Selling Speech; Angels; Hearts; Pronoun; Tomorrow
Redaktion: Banks, Anthony

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and emerging writers - this National Theatre Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2014 festival, which takes place across the UK and finishes up at the National Theatre in London. It offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the young performer in mind. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.

As with previous anthologies, the volume will feature an introduction by Anthony Banks, Associate Director of the National Theatre Discover Programme, and each play includes notes from the writer and director addressing the themes and ideas behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises.

The National Theatre Connections series has been running for nineteen years and the anthology that accompanies it, published for the last three years by Methuen Drama, is gaining a greater profile by the year. Some iconic plays have grown out of the Connections programme including Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill, Burn by Deborah Gearing, Chatroom by Enda Walsh, Baby Girl by Roy Williams, DNA by Dennis Kelly, and The Miracle by Lin Coghlan. The series has a recognisable brand and the anthologies continue to be an extremely useful resource, their value extending well beyond their year of publication.

This year's anthology includes plays by Sabrina Mahfouz, Simon Vinnicombe, Catherine Johnson, Pauline McLynn, Dafydd James, Luke Norris and Sam Holcroft.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 560
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781472571441
• Artikelnr.: 40683355

Autorenporträt

Sabrina Mahfouz has recently been elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and is the recipient of the 2018 King's Alumni Arts & Culture Award. She has won a Sky Arts Academy Award for Poetry, a Westminster Prize for New Playwrights and a Fringe First Award for her play Chef. Her play With a Little Bit of Luck won the 2019 Best Drama Production at the BBC Radio & Music Awards. She also writes for children and her play Zeraffa Giraffa won a 2018 Off West End Award.

Sabrina is the editor of The Things I Would Tell You: British Muslim Women Write, a 2017 Guardian Book of the Year and the forthcoming Smashing It: Working Class Artists on Life, Art and Making It Happen. She's an essay contributor to the multi-award-winning The Good Immigrant and is currently writing a biopic of the rapper and producer Wiley, for Pulse Films.

Inhaltsangabe

Same by Deborah Bruce Whether 19 or 91, life's not much different in this
rest home for the young at heart. Horizon by Matt Hartley 'Horizon View' is
the go to place for teenagers to hang out, but gone are this shopping
centre's glory days. Jobs are sparse, university fees are rising, being
young is not what it's meant to be and this group are on the cusp of
realising this. The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft A huge tudor wardrobe sits
alone on the stage. When it revolves, the audience discover it has no back,
and inside they see several small groups of children, each of whom are in
hiding, warded from danger, throughout the last five centuries of British
history. Heritage by Dafydd James It's Mayday, and a group of children are
chosen to close the day's festivities by singing the village anthem - a
blistering black comedy with music that explores the darker side of
nationalism. A Letter To Lacey by Catherine Johnson Kara's new boyfriend
Reece is really keen on her, in fact, he loves her to bits. It's not long
before Kara finds herself in an impossible relationship, which she knows
she must leave and when she eventually does, she writes a letter to Reece's
new girlfriend Lacey. A Shop Selling Speech by Sabrina Mahfouz Present day
Cairo: shopkeepers are held up at gun-point in a heist in which the loot is
tokens of free speech. Angels by Pauline McLynn Community service tidying a
graveyard is the task given to a bunch of wayward souls who discover more
than they bargained for amongst the weeds and carved stone angels in this
place where little rests - hilarity, halos, and the odd cup of tea from
Father Ted's favourite Mrs Doyle. Hearts by Luke Norris Football = winners
and losers, broken hearts, a few own goals and too many chips. A comedy
caper set in the home team's changing room of local club Hearts. Pronoun by
Evan Placey An extraordinary story about an ordinary girl who wants to
become an ordinary boy. Tomorrow by Simon Vinnicombe It's last day of
school, then prom night, then results day - in three epic scenes Year
Eleven find themselves precariously on the brink of adulthood.