Author : Charles Way
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,97 MB
Release : 2014-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781906582517
Three plays for youth which may be used in schools, colleges, or young people's theatres.
Author : Charles Way
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 10,64 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1906582718
A sparkling collection of three new plays by distinguished children’s playwright Charles Way. They have been successfully produced by professional theatre companies for children in the UK, the US and Germany. These plays work equally well for use in schools, colleges or youth theatres. With contemporary themes and challenging roles, this is a collection that offers enjoyable theatre for young people of all ages to perform. MISSING – a modern take on Hansel and Gretel, about the nature of poverty. This play won the German Children’s Theatre Prize 2010 and has had eight productions in Germany alone. NIVELLI’S WAR – about a six-year-old German Evacuee and his journey home at the end of WW2. PIRATES! – about a boy at sea, this was nominated both for the Writer’s Guild Best Children’s Play award and a Helen Hayes Award in America for ‘Outstanding New Play’. Winner of the the American Alliance for Theatre and Education ‘Distinguished Play’ Award 2012.
Author : Chris Ceraso
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 21,96 MB
Release : 2021-03-25
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350171891
In their exposé of Gen Z, The New York Times qualified its members as the “most diverse generation in American history". Recent Broadway hits have found a successful formula in productions showcasing the emotional turmoil of contemporary young people, yet the majority of these works represent predominantly white voices, both in terms of authorship and representation. Non-white characters tend to exist only in a world of colorblind casting rather than speaking to their distinct racial and cultural heritage. This anthology helps correct that balance and presents a unique offering of plays written for multicultural teenagers by diverse authors who have spent a significant part of their careers working closely with young people in urban settings. The playwrights - among them award winners such as Chisa Hutchinson and Nilaja Sun - have created texts that are dramatic and comic, satirical and earnest, touchingly real, and amusingly surreal. Varying in length and format, suitable for classrooms and youth groups of all sizes, the plays address such themes as ethnic and cultural identity; ancestry and assimilation; bullying and self-empowerment; disenfranchisement and alienation; parental pressure to over-achieve, youth activism and community-building; and the very real perils of daily school life in an era of gun proliferation.
Author : Coleman A. Jennings
Publisher :
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 23,38 MB
Release : 1999
Category : Drama
ISBN :
This book provides the full text of the plays produced through the NGPP: -- Constance Congdon, Beauty and the Beast-- Velina Hasu Houston, Hula Heart-- Tina Howe, East of the Sun and West of the Moon-- Len Jenkin, The Invisible Man-- Mark Medoff, Kringle's Window-- Eric Overmyer, Duke Kahanamoku vs. The Surfnappers-- Michael Weller, Dogbrain-- Y York, The Witch of Blackbird Pond.
Author : Craig Slaight
Publisher : Smith & Kraus
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 41,38 MB
Release : 1993
Category : Drama
ISBN :
Presents a collection of monologues and scenes for young actors to perform.
Author : Charles Way
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
Page : 148 pages
File Size : 35,82 MB
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1906582173
Red Red Shoes was commissioned by the Unicorn Theatre for Children and The Place. Based on the Hans Christian Andersen tale, this play uses dance, music and drama to explore the inner world of a traumatised child fleeing from war in Eastern Europe. (Ages 9+) Eye of the Storm offers a contemporary version of Shakespeare’s The Tempest, exploring father/daughter relationships and the need for independence. (Ages 12+) Playing From the Heart, commissioned by the Polka Theatre, is a poetic piece which follows the travails of the young Evelyn Glennie to become a professional musician despite her profound deafness. (Ages 8+)
Author : Fiona Graham
Publisher : Aurora Metro Publications Ltd.
Page : 123 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2019-04-09
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 191243024X
The Portuguese visual artist Paula Rego has inspired this trilogy of plays. Her paintings Crivelli’s Garden, The Prey and Breaking China became the catalyst for writing by theatre maker Fiona Graham. Commissioned by Theatre Centre and Komedia, these three new plays were developed for specific audiences through a series of artist/audience residencies and collaborations. These works have toured Britain and been re-staged in Portugal and Singapore. Crivellis’s Garden was created for a 16+ audience and explores rites of passage as two young women decide whether they should stay or leave their fishing village to go to university in Portugal. Between Friends is for 7 -11 year olds and examines the politics of friendship between three young people when they are shipwrecked and abandoned in a lighthouse. Breaking China is for 4-8 year olds and shows the importance of creative play and storytelling when making sense of change and adversity. About the author DR FIONA GRAHAM Fiona teaches dramaturgy at Goldsmiths University. Previously she spent over a decade in New Zealand writing and teaching at Auckland University. Her plays include: Passage (The Herald Theatre, Auckland 2010), Breaking China (Theatre Centre, 2002 and Singapore’s International Festival, 2004) and Legacy (for Massive Theatre Company, 1998). Most recently she worked as dramaturge with Otago University and Talking House Theatre Company on Be/Longing and Hush, with Red Leap Theatre Company on Paper Sky and Sea, with playwright Mei-Lin Hansen on The Mooncake And The Kumara, with Winning Productions on I Wanna Be -- Ponsonby and Carol Brown on 1000 Lovers and the Pah Collective. Her book Catalyst For Change: The Interventions of the Dramaturge was published in New Zealand in 2017. Reviews: ‘Graham’s poetically eloquent script flows like molten silver and should give students, teachers and other theatregoers much to think about’ (on Crivelli’s Garden) – The Stage ‘A prime example of how an excellent script innovatively directed and beautifully performed can be applied to a wide age range. This joyful production provides much food for thought.’ (on Breaking China) – The Stage
Author : Miriam Battye
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 41,20 MB
Release : 2021-06-17
Category : Drama
ISBN : 135023351X
It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights, National Theatre Connections 2021 features work by brilliant artists. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities. The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study. This 2021 edition is intended as a companion to the 2020 anthology, which together represent the full set of 10 plays offered by the National Theatre 2021 Festival. The two plays included in this collection are Find a Partner by Miriam Battye and Like There's No Tomorrow, created by the Belgrade Young Company with Justine Themen, Claire Procter and Liz Mytton. The anthology contains two play scripts, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that will give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.
Author : Selina Busby
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 733 pages
File Size : 47,97 MB
Release : 2022-10-31
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1000689123
This companion interrogates the relationship between theatre and youth from a global perspective, taking in performances and theatre made by, for, and about young people. These different but interrelated forms of theatre are addressed through four critical themes that underpin the ways in which analysis of contemporary theatre in relation to young people can be framed: political utterances – exploring the varied ways theatre becomes a platform for political utterance as a process of dialogic thinking and critical imagining; critical positioning – examining youth theatre work that navigates the sensitive, dynamic, and complex terrains in which young people live and perform; pedagogic frames – outlining a range of contexts and programmes in which young people learn to make and understand theatre that reflects their artistic capacities and aesthetic strategies; applying performance – discussing a range of projects and companies whose work has been influential in the development of youth theatre within specific contexts. Providing critical, research-informed, and research-based discussions on the intersection between young people, their representation, and their participation in theatre, this is a landmark text for students, scholars, and practitioners whose work and thinking involves theatre and young people.
Author : Keith Saha
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 90 pages
File Size : 18,28 MB
Release : 2018-06-12
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1350085200
Black Nikki doesn't think her dad is a racist ... He just cares deeply about his community ... But when a Zimbabwean family move in over the road, the dog won't stop barking ... The local kids start lobbing stones ... And her dad starts laying down the law. Black is a hard-hitting play about racial tensions in the UK today She's Leaving Home At 15, Kelsey has her whole life in front of her and feels that she has everything she wants: good mates, a supportive family and big ambitions. But as the years roll by she slowly realises that leaving home to fulfill her dreams isn't as easy as she first imagined. She's Leaving Home was commissioned by Culture Liverpool as part of the 50th Anniversary of the Beatles seminal album Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. With bracing insight into the worlds of two young women with very different struggles, Keith Saha's Black and She's Leaving Home force the issues of modern Britain to take centre stage. This edition was published to coincide with 20 Stories High's national tour of Black in 2018.
