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National Theatre Connections 2011: Plays for Young People: Frank & Ferdinand; Gap; Cloud Busting; Those Legs; Shooting Truth; Bassett; Gargantua; Chil 2011 Edition
Contributor(s): Adamson, Sam (Author), Bano, Alia (Author), Blakeman, Helen (Author)

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ISBN: 140813179X     ISBN-13: 9781408131794
Publisher: Methuen Drama
OUR PRICE: $31.30  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 2011
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BISAC Categories:
- Juvenile Nonfiction | Performing Arts - Theater & Musicals
Dewey: 822.920
LCCN: 2011488834
Series: National Theatre Connections
Physical Information: 1.5" H x 5.1" W x 7.7" L (0.95 lbs) 544 pages
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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 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.

The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary school are just some of subjects covered in the thrilling and varied new plays created by talented writers for young actors to perform in National Theatre Connections 2011.

The plays in this anthology offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. Themes are both teenage and universal - ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.


Contributor Bio(s): Bano, Alia: - Alia Bano studied English at Queen Mary, University of London, and taught A Level and GCSE English in Haringey. She joined the Royal Court's Young Writers' Programme in 2004. Her early work was read at Theatre Royal, Stratford East during the BritAsia Festival in 2005. She was subsequently invited to join Soho Theatre's Core Writing Group, and took part in the Royal Court's Unheard Voices programme in 2008. Her verbatim play Behind the Image, developed with Nina Raine, was presented during the Royal Court Rough Cuts season in 2008. Her work for the stage includes Gap, Hens, Rough Cuts, and Shades.Adamson, Sam: - Sam Adamson is a London-based Australian playwright. His plays include Clocks and Whistles (Bush Theatre, 1996), Grace Note (Old Vic, 1997), Drink, Dance, Laugh and Lie (Bush, 1999), Southwark Fair (National Theatre, 2005), and Some Kind of Bliss (NT, 2006). He has written many adaptations, including A Doll's House (Southwark Playhouse, 2003), The Cherry Orchard and Three Sisters, and All About My Mother (from the Almodovar film) which premiered at the Old Vic in 2007. His Frank and Ferdinand was programmed as part of 2011's National Theatre Connections Plays for Young People.Blakeman, Helen: - Helen Blakeman is a British playwright and screenwriter from Liverpool. Her first play, Caravan (1997), won the George Devine. In 2008, she wrote the screenplay for the award-winning TV film Dustbin Baby, for which she won the British Academy Children's Award for best writer. Other plays include: Normal (2000) and The Morris (2005).
 
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