Sabrina Mahfouz, Stef Smith, Chris Thorpe, Bea Webster, Jack Nurse, Robbie Gordon

Positive Stories For Negative Times (eBook, ePUB)

Five Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely
Redaktion: Wonder Fools

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Five exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools theatre company with guidance for staging the plays either online or live in the space.

Commissioned as part of Wonder Fools' national participatory project Positive Stories for Negative Times, these five plays offer a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 8-25. These original and innovative plays are:

Is This A Fairytale? by Bea Websater
A new play that rips apart the traditional fairy tale canon and turns it on its head in a surprising, inventive and unconventional way. Ages 8+

Hold Out Your Hand by Chris Thorpe
A dynamic text asking questions about place, where we are now and the moment we are living through. Ages 13+

The Pack by Stef Smith
A playful and poetic exploration about getting lost in the loneliness of your living room and trying to find your way home. Ages 13+

Ozymandias by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse
A contemporary story inspired by Percy Shelley's 19th century poem of the same name, exploring power, oppression and racism through the eyes of young people. Ages 16+

Bad Bored Women of the Rooms by Sabrina Mahfouz
A storytelling adventure through the centuries of women and girls who have spent a lot of time stuck in a room. Ages 18+

The accompanying handbook includes step-by-step guidance on how to produce the plays either online or live in the space, and bespoke exercises and instructions on how to approach directing each play.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Februar 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350233386
• Artikelnr.: 61248138

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

1. Editor's Note 2. Credits and Biographies 3. Handbook 4. Is This A
Fairytale? by Bea Webster 5. The Pack by Stef Smith 6. Hold Out Your Hand
by Chris Thorpe 7. Ozymandias by Jack Nurse and Robbie Gordon 8. Bad Bored
Women of the Rooms by Sabrina Mahfouz