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National Theatre Connections 2023 draws together ten new plays for
young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting and
popular playwrights. 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.
Touching on themes like climate change, politics, toxic masculinity
and gang culture, the collection provides topical, pressing subject
matter for students to explore in their performance. This 2023
anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the
National Theatre 2023 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop
notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters,
running rehearsals and staging a production.
Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from
shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her
own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical
artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those
who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and
discussions around what has been termed 'sexualisation' and 'the
gaze'. An account of the experience of being 'looked at', the book
raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of
the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it,
and what this means for feminism and the act of looking. An
embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing
Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by
feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and
that women's bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture,
raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies -
those of glamorous women on display - to become scapegoats for our
deeper anxieties about consumerism.
'I've been waiting for something like this to happen. I'm surprised
it's taken so long. The signs have been building up for a while.'
An ordinary Tuesday turns really, really weird when the sky over
the school playground suddenly rips open. Pupils and teachers are
sucked up to a parallel universe, whilst a new set of people start
raining down from above. 'Us' and 'Them' must come together to work
out what is going on, and how they can get things back to how they
were. Alison Carr's play Tuesday is funny and playful, with a
little bit of sci-fi and a lot of big themes: friendship, family,
identity, grief, responsibility - and what happens when an
unexpected event literally turns the world upside-down. Written
specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2020 and
2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by
youth theatres across the UK. It offers opportunities for a large,
flexible cast of any size, age and mix of genders. This bilingual
edition includes the original English play with a Welsh-language
translation, Un Bore Mawrth, by playwright Daf James. Set Text
>> Tuesday is a set play on WJEC's GCSE Drama specification.
Un Bore Mawrth ''Wi 'di bod yn aros i rywbeth fel hyn ddigwydd.
'Wi'n synnu'i fod e 'di cymryd mor hir. Ma'r arwyddion 'di bod 'ma
ers sbel.' Dydd Mawrth digon cyffredin yw hi, ond yn sydyn mae'n
troi'n ddiwrnod rhyfedd iawn pan mae'r awyr uwch ben yr ysgol yn
rhwygo'n agored. Caiff disgyblion ac athrawon eu sugno i fyny i
fydysawd cyfochrog wrth i garfan newydd o bobl arllwys i lawr oddi
uchod. Rhaid i 'Ni' a 'Nhw' ddod ynghyd i ddeall beth sy'n digwydd
ac i ddatrys sut i gael pethau'n ol fel yr oedden nhw. Mae'r ddrama
wreiddiol hon gan Alison Carr, Tuesday, yn ddoniol ac yn chwareus,
gyda phinsiad o ffugwyddoniaeth a thomen o themau mawr:
cyfeillgarwch, teulu, hunaniaeth, galar, cyfrifoldeb - a beth sy'n
digwydd pan fydd digwyddiad annisgwyl yn llythrennol yn troi'r byd
wyneb i waered. Wedi'i hysgrifennu ar gyfer pobl ifanc, roedd y
ddrama'n rhan o Wyl National Theatre Connections yn 2020 a 2021, a
chafodd ei llwyfannu am y tro cyntaf gan theatrau ieuenctid ar
draws y DU. Mae'n cynnig cyfleoedd i gastiau mawr, hyblyg o unrhyw
faint, oedran a rhywedd. Mae Tuesday yn waith gosod ar fanyleb TGAU
Drama CBAC. Yn y gyfrol ddwyieithog hon, fe welwch y ddrama
wreiddiol Saesneg ynghyd a chyfieithiad Cymraeg y dramodydd Daf
James, Un Bore Mawrth.
Each year, the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young
people to perform, bringing together some of the UK's most exciting
writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. This 2021 pack
captures the two new plays written for the 2021 festival that are
perfect for schools and youth groups to perform and study. Written
with flexibility in mind, these are perfect for exploration both
virtually and in-person, responding to the restrictions in place
due to Covid-19. It also includes National Theatre Connections 2020
anthology which features 9 plays, 8 of which are included in the
2021 festival performances. The plays included in this pack are:
Find a Partner by Miriam Battye Like There's No Tomorrow, created
by the Belgrade Young Company with Justine Themen, Claire Procter
and Liz Mytton Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola Adebayo
Tuesday by Alison Carr A series of public apologies (in response to
an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly
THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor
Look Up by Andrew Muir Crusaders by Frances Poet Witches Can't Be
Burned by Silva Semerciyan Dungeness by Chris Thompson .
'The end-of-the-world quiz waits for no man, literally. Onwards,
ever onwards, to our fiery decline. Round three...' It's the end of
the world. The last night on Earth. An asteroid is heading straight
for us and there's nothing we can do about it. Except for maybe
host a pub quiz - which is exactly what landlady Kathy and her
quizmaster Rav are doing. But, with time ticking, some unexpected
guests explode on the scene - Bobby wants to settle old scores, and
Fran wants one last shot at love. Alison Carr's play The Last Quiz
Night on Earth is an innovative comedy-drama featuring a fully
interactive pub quiz for the audience to participate in, complete
with real teams, real questions and real swapping each other's
answers for marking. It was premiered by Box of Tricks in 2020 on a
UK tour, taking in a host of theatres, community venues and pubs.
Ideal for performance by amateurs - either in theatres or more
unconventional spaces (such as theatre bars and local pubs) - this
play offers rich opportunities for audience participation. Quizzing
compulsory, alcohol optional.
Drawing on interviews with a breadth of different showgirls, from
shows in Paris, Las Vegas, Berlin, and Los Angeles, as well as her
own artworks and those by other contemporary and historical
artists, this book examines the experiences of showgirls and those
who watch them, to challenge the narrowness of representations and
discussions around what has been termed 'sexualisation' and 'the
gaze'. An account of the experience of being 'looked at', the book
raises questions of how the showgirl is represented, the nature of
the pleasure that she elicits and the suspicion that surrounds it,
and what this means for feminism and the act of looking. An
embodied articulation of a new politics of looking, Viewing
Pleasure and Being a Showgirl engages with the idea (reinforced by
feminist critique) that images of women are linked to selling and
that women's bodies have been commodified in capitalist culture,
raising the question of whether this enables particular bodies -
those of glamorous women on display - to become scapegoats for our
deeper anxieties about consumerism.
National Theatre Connections is an annual festival which brings new
plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK
and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights,
the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional
theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production
- from costume and set design to stage management and marketing
campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays
and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young
people each year. This anthology brings together 9 new plays by
some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists
alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for
schools and youth groups. Wind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola
Adebayo This is a play about the British Isles, its past and its
present. Set in a senior common room, in a prominent university, a
group of 1st year undergraduates are troubled, not by the weight of
their workload, but by a 'noisy' ghost. So they do what any group
self-respecting and intelligent university students would do in
such a situation - they get out the Ouija Board to confront their
spiritual irritant and lay them to rest - only to be confronted by
the full weight of Britain's colonial past - in all its gory glory.
Fusing naturalism, with physical theatre, spoken-word, absurdism,
poetry and direct address - this is event-theatre that whips along
with the grace, pace and hypnotic magnetism of a hurricane. Tuesday
by Alison Carr Tuesday is light, playful and nuanced in tone. And a
little bit sci-fi. The play centres on an ordinary Tuesday that
suddenly turns very weird indeed when a tear rips across the sky
over the school yard. The play touches on themes of friendship,
sibling love, family, identity, grief, bullying, loneliness and
responsibility. And in the process we might just learn something
about ourselves as well as some astronomical theories of the
multiverse! A series of public apologies (in response to an
unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John Donnelly
This satirical play is heightened in its naturalism, in its
seriousness, in its parody and piercing in its interrogation of how
our attempts to define ourselves in public are shaped by the fear
of saying the wrong thing. Presented quite literally as a series of
public apologies this play is spacious, flexible and welcoming of
inventive and imaginative interpretation as each iteration spirals
inevitably to its absurdist core. This is a play on words, on
convention, on manners, on institutions, on order, online and on
point. THE IT by Vivienne Franzmann THE IT is a play about a
teenage girl who has something growing inside her. She doesn't know
what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands in her body.
It starts in her stomach, but quickly outgrows that, until
eventually ittakes over the entirety of her insides. It has claws.
She feels them. Presented in the style of a direct to camera
documentary, this is a darkly comic state of the nation play
exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within, written
very specifically for today. The Marxist in Heaven by Hattie Naylor
The Marxist in Heaven is a play that does exactly what its title
page says it's going to do. The eponymous protagonist 'wakes up' in
paradise and once they get over the shock of this fundamental
contradiction of everything they believe in.....they get straight
back to work....and continue their lifelong struggle for equality
and fairness for all....even in death. Funny, playful, provocative,
pertinent and jam-packed with discourse, disputes, deities and
disco dancing by the bucketful, this upbeat buoyant allegory shines
its holy light on globalization and asks the salient questions -
who are we and what are we doing to ourselves?.....and what
conditioner do you use on your hair? Look Up by Andrew Muir Look Up
plunges us into a world free from adult intervention, supervision
and protection. It's about seeking the truth for yourself and
finding the space to find and be yourself. Nine young people are
creating new rules for what they hope will be a new and brighter
future full of hope in a world in which they can trust again. Each
one of them is unique, original and defiantly individual, break
into an abandoned building and set about claiming the space,
because that is what they do. They have rituals, they have rules,
together they are a tribe, they have faith in themselves....and
nothing and no one else. They are the future, unless the real world
catches up with them and then all they can hope for is that they
don't crash and burn like the adults they ran away from in the
first place. Crusaders by Frances Poet A group of teens gather to
take their French exam but none of them will step into the exam
hall. Because Kyle has had a vision and he'll use anything, even
miracles, to ensure his classmates accompany him. Together they
have just seven days to save themselves, save the world and be the
future. And Kyle is not the only one who has had the dream. All
across the globe, from Azerbaijan to Zambia, children are dreaming
and urging their peers to follow them to the promised land. Who
will follow? Who will lead? Who will make it? Witches Can't Be
Burned by Silva Semerciyan St. Paul's have won the schools Playfest
competition, three years in a row, by selecting recognised classics
from the canon and producing them at an exceptionally high level,
it's a tried and trusted formula. With straight A's student and
drama freak, Anuka cast as Abigail Williams in The Crucible by
Arthur Miller, the school seem to be well on course for another
triumph, which would be a record. However, as rehearsals gain
momentum, Anuka has an epiphany. An experience resulting in her
asking searching questions surrounding the text, the depiction and
perception of female characters, the meaning of loyalty, and the
values and traditions underpinning the very foundations of the
school. Thus, the scene is set for a confrontation of epic
proportions as Anuka seeks to break with tradition, before
tradition breaks her and all young women like her and reality
begins to take on the ominous hue of Miller's fictionalized Salem.
Dungeness by Chris Thompson . In a remote part of the UK, where
nothing ever happens, a group of teenagers share a safe house for
LGBT+ young people. While their shared home welcomes difference, it
can be tricky for self-appointed group leader Birdie to keep the
peace. The group must decide how they want to commemorate an attack
that happened to LGBT+ people, in a country far away. How do you
take to the streets and protest if you're not ready to tell the
world who you are? If you're invisible, does your voice still
count? A play about love, commemoration and protest.
'I expect the plummet, I brace, but no. The wind is now a breeze is
now a whisper and I've stopped; suspended in the sky...' Greasy
fish'n'chips, sticks of rock and a pot-bellied Spider-Man throwing
himself off the pier; the annual 'Birdman' competition is in full
flight. It's the busiest weekend of the year in this faded seaside
town, but Bayview B&B is somehow closed for business. A
finalist in the Theatre503 Playwriting Award, Alison Carr's play
Caterpillar is a darkly funny, searing and tender drama about those
moments when we find ourselves teetering on the edge. Caterpillar
was first performed at Theatre503, London, in September 2018 before
transferring to the Stephen Joseph Theatre, Scarborough, produced
by Small Truth Theatre in association with Theatre503 and Michelle
Barnette Productions.
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Iris (Paperback)
Alison Carr
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"Behind me, the sky was falling in. Slowly drifting down. That's
the last thing my broken eye saw before it all went black. Do you
believe me?" No one's touched the buffet, there's a big gap on the
wall where a mirror's fallen off and something is stinking the
place out. Julie and Ruby are sisters coming to terms with the
death of formidable matriarch Iris who still manages to control
their lives from beyond the grave. On the night of the funeral,
Julie gets off with Gerry, the crime scene cleaner. Maybe that'll
help. It doesn't. When their mother's unusual bequest unearths a
story that leaves some indelible marks, something more than a deep
clean is needed.
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