'To encourage our most exciting, innovative contemporary
playwrights to focus their energies on writing plays specifically
for performance by this younger age group is inspired. The National
Theatre's Shell Connectionsseries, like all the best ideas, is
simple yet far reaching and very important for the future of the
theatre.' Sir Alan Ayckbourn Shell Connections 2003 premieres ten
new plays, specially commissioned by the National Theatre, by some
of the best writers around. With a wide range of cast sizes and
settings - including the dark side of the moon, a multiplex cinema,
the tarot universe, Roman London, and the eve of the Queen's Golden
Jubilee - there's plenty of comedy, quests for courage, fame and
fortune, tales of sinister parallel worlds, magical happenings and
the power of human action. Schools and youth theatre groups will be
spoilt for choice with this fantastic new collection. Visit the
Shell Connections website at www.shellconnections.org. This limited
print-run anthology is sold exclusively (while stocks last) from
the National Theatre's specialist theatre bookshop. To acquire
further copies: Telephone: 020 7452 3456/ Fax 020 7452 3457/
E-mail:
[email protected]/secure online ordering
www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/bookshop. A copy of this anthology has
been placed in every secondary school in the UK through the
generous support of The Foyle Foundation. Included in the
collection are the following: Brokenville by Philip Ridley The
Crossing Path by Maya Chowdhry Dust by Sarah Daniels The Ice Palace
by Lucinda Coxon An Island Far from Here by Laura Ruohonen
(translated by David Hackston) Moontel Six by Constance Congdon
Multiplex by Christopher William Hill Purple by Jon Fosse
(translated by David Harrower) The Queen Must Die by David Farr
Totally Over You by Mark Ravenhill
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