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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.

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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.

Notes

A new collection of 10 plays for young people, for schools, colleges and youth theatre groups.

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.

Review

The 2012 volume features plays from around the world, with varied styles of dialogue (rhetorical, verse, musical, naturalistic, and heightened-realism), multiple issues, and for casts both large and small . . . The collection is strong . . . They cater for many ethnicities and group sizes; each play runs under an hour; and they have very few technical requirements, making them very suitable material for youth theatres everywhere. -- Peter Hussey * Youth Drama Ireland *The anthologies are brilliant resources. -- Rhianna Elsden * Teaching Drama *

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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.

Long Description

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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The 2012 volume features plays from around the world, with varied styles of dialogue (rhetorical, verse, musical, naturalistic, and heightened-realism), multiple issues, and for casts both large and small . . . The collection is strong . . . They cater for many ethnicities and group sizes; each play runs under an hour; and they have very few technical requirements, making them very suitable material for youth theatres everywhere.

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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.

Feature

Published to coincide with the largest annual festival of new writing for young people organised by the National Theatre of Great Britain and running from March to July 2012

Details ISBN1408157241 Year 2012 ISBN-10 1408157241 ISBN-13 9781408157244 Media Book Author Rory Mullarkey Pages 560 Imprint Methuen Drama Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC Short Title NATL THEATRE CONNECTIONS 2012 Language English Illustrations black & white illustrations DEWEY 822.920809283 Format Paperback UK Release Date 2012-03-15 NZ Release Date 2012-03-15 Birth 1952 Affiliation Stony Brook University, USA Position Author Qualifications R.N., B.S.N., Ocn Publication Date 2012-03-15 Subtitle 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 Ritual Audience General AU Release Date 2012-04-14 Series Play Anthologies We've got this

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