Mojisola Adebayo, Chris Thompson, Chris Bush, Alison Carr, John Donnelly, Vivienne Franzmann, Hattie Naylor, Andrew Muir, Frances Poet, Silva Semerciyan

National Theatre Connections 2020 (eBook, PDF)

Plays for Young People

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.

This anthology brings together 9 new plays by some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups.

Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo
Tuesday by Alison Carr
A series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly
THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann
The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor
Look Up by Andrew Muir
Crusaders by Frances Poet
Witches Can't Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan
Dungeness by Chris Thompson .

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 536
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781350161023
• Artikelnr.: 59580703

Autorenporträt

Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and lecturer. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts, an MA in Physical Theatre and her PhD is entitled Afriquia Theatre: Creating Black Queer Ubuntu Through Performance (Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Queen Mary, University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is an international specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed, often working in locations of crisis and conflict. She has worked in theatre, radio and television, on four continents, over the past 25 years, performing in over 50 productions, writing, devising and directing over 30 plays, and leading countless workshops, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own authored plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith and Ovalhouse, London), Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse, Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), 48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre and international touring), Desert Boy (Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), I Stand Corrected (Artscape, Ovalhouse, London and international touring) and The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre, London).

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction to National Theatre Connections 2. Wind / Rush
Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo 3. Directors Notes on The Changing Room
by Chris Bush 4. Tuesday by Alison Carr 5. A series of public apologies (in
response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John
Donnelly 6. THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann 7. The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie
Naylor 8. Look Up by Andrew Muir 9. Crusaders by Frances Poet 10. Witches
Can't Be Burned by Silva Semerciyan 11. Dungeness by Chris Thompson
Directors notes follow each of the 10 plays.