Producers' Choice: Promise; Oedipus/Antigone; Tory Boyz; Butterfly Club; Alice's Adventures In Wonderland; Punk Rock

Author: D. J. Britton

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  • : $39.99 AUD
  • : 9781408128855
  • : A & C Black Publishers Ltd
  • : Methuen Drama
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  • : October 2010
  • : 198mm X 129mm X 26mm
  • : United Kingdom
  • : 35.0
  • : January 2011
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  • : D. J. Britton
  • : Play Anthologies
  • : Paperback
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  • : 822.9208
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  • : 432
  • : Plays, Drama
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Description

Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers showcases some of the best plays for young people produced by the UK's leading theatre companies. The plays are ideal for young performers aged 13-25 and offer a diverse range of challenges, styles and subjects. The volume will prove essential for teachers and students of Drama and for youth drama groups. The plays include modern reworkings of classics, such as Simon Reade's witty and brilliantly inventive adaptation of Lewis Carroll's much-loved fantasy, and DJ Britton's version of Sophocles' Theban plays, the tragic Oedipus/Antigone. Contemporary teenage issues are dealt with in Megan Barker's beautiful and uplifting Promise and Sarah May's The Butterfly Club. Simon Stephens' hit-play Punk Rock set in a grammar school explores dislocation and aggression among sixth form pupils; James Graham's Tory Boyz is a fast-paced, political comedy about prejudice and ambition in Westminster. Each play features production notes and the volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre.
For schools, youth theatre groups and drama colleges this anthology of thematically and stylistically diverse plays will prove an invaluable resource.

About the author:
Six playwrights as selected by six different theatre companies from around the UK. Editor Paul Roseby is the Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

Promotion info

The best new plays for young performers as selected by the best producing companies and theatres specialising in young people's work Simon Stephens' play was shortlisted for the Critics Circle Best Play of 2009 award and Simon Reade's won the Equity Award for Best Show for Children and Young People at the TMA Theatre Awards 2005 Perfect for the thousands of GCSE and A level Drama students and youth drama groups requiring first-rate scripts

Author description

Six playwrights as selected by six different theatre companies from around the UK. Editor Paul Roseby is the Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.

Table of contents

Promise; Oedipus/Antigone; Tory Boyz; Butterfly Club; Alice's Adventures in Wonderland; Punk Rock