National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People

Name: National Theatre Connections 2012: Plays for Young People
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Play Anthologies

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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.

Author Biography:

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.

Release date Australia

March 15th, 2012

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Audiences

General (US: Trade)
Primary & Secondary Education
Teenage / Young Adult

Pages

560

Series

Play Anthologies

Dimensions

129x198x43

ISBN-13

9781408157244

Product ID

11100426

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