Migration Plays - Four large cast ensemble stories for teenagers (Paperback)

Featuring four new plays written and devised in collaboration with groups of secondary school children, this collection examines immigration to and emigration from the UK. A theatre-in-education project coordinated by Tamasha theatre company and The Migration Museum, children worked on exercises designed to develop their understanding of, and feelings about, migration. Their reactions were then incorporated into a piece of theatre by a professional playwright that the students then performed. This collection brings together these plays along with the unique exercises that inspired them. The plays include: Nothing to Declare by Sharmila Chauhan follows three precious keepsakes and the stories attached to them as their owners are stopped at a hostile border. Potato Moon by Satinder Chohan focuses on the potatoes buried in a share allotment. They become people's memories in a magical realist Southall and so when they start to go missing, schoolgirl Mira set out to find out why. Wilkommen by Asif Khan follows 11 year Ammar on the most dangerous journey of his life, from war-torn country, across sea and land, to take up the offer of a new life in Europe. Jigsaw by Sumerah Srivstav tells the story of how three angels, horrified by mankind's cruelty, prepare to wipe them out... until they find an unlikely friend who changes their mind. This is an invaluable collection that gives both teachers the resources to address the sometimes tricky issues surrounding migration and students the opportunity to create and in doing so counteract and humanize the narratives hear in the media and society as a whole.

General

Imprint:	Methuen Drama
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	August 2019
Editors:	Fin Kennedy
Authors:	Satinder Chohan • Asif Khan • Sumerah Srivastav • Sharmila Chauhan
Dimensions:	216 x 138 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	136
ISBN-13:	978-1-350-09041-5
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies Books > Children's & Educational > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General Books > Language & Literature > Literature: texts > Drama texts, plays > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Population & demography > Immigration & emigration
LSN:	1-350-09041-7
Barcode:	9781350090415

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