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An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on
young people today in the wake of advancing technology. When a
naked photograph of Scarlett goes viral, she becomes the centre of
attention for all the wrong reasons. But while rumours run wild and
everyone forms an opinion, Scarlett just stays silent... With roles
for up to twenty-four young female actors (though it can also be
performed by a smaller cast), the play is perfect for any schools,
youth theatres or drama groups looking to tackle a contemporary
subject in a theatrically exciting way. Specially commissioned by
Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West
Yorkshire Playhouse, Evan Placey's play Girls Like That was
developed through work with young people from the three theatres
and first performed by their youth theatre companies in 2013. It
was revived at the Unicorn Theatre, London, in November 2014. Girls
Like That was named Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers'
Guild of Great Britain Awards 2015.
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Consensual (Paperback)
Evan Placey
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An explosive and thought-provoking play from the author of Girls
Like That, exploring what happens when buried secrets catch up with
you. As Head of Year 11, Diane is meant to be implementing the new
'Healthy Relationships' curriculum. But then Freddie arrives. She
hasn't seen him since that night six years earlier when he was
fifteen. She thinks he took advantage of her. He thinks she groomed
him for months. Neither is sure. But when it comes to sex and
consent, how far can you blur the lines? Evan Placey's Consensual
was first performed by the National Youth Theatre in their 2015
West End season.
Everyone has another face they hide behind... A radical
re-imagining by playwright Evan Placey of Robert Louis Stevenson's
classic tale, where civilised society meets seedy Soho in a
thrilling collision of Victorian England with the here and now.
Written for the National Youth Theatre, and first performed by the
company at the Ambassadors Theatre in the West End in 2017, Jekyll
& Hyde offers a full range of parts for schools and
youth-theatre groups looking for a contemporary reinvention of a
macabre classic. Evan Placey's other plays include Consensual,
Pronoun, Girls Like That (Best Play for Young Audiences at the
Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards), Mother of Him, Banana Boys
and Holloway Jones.
Winner! 2011 Samuel French Canadian Play Contest Winner! King's
Cross Award for New Writing (UK) Winner! Tarragon Theatre's RBC
Under 30 National Playwriting Competition (Canada) "If you were
looking at us, you might have even thought we were friends. Old
friends. If my son hadn't raped her daughter." It could be a
morning like any other as Brenda cooks breakfast for her two
sons...But eight year-old Jason's refusing to go to school and
teenager Matthew is under house arrest upstairs. And Brenda's face
is splashed across the cover of every newspaper. For Matthew has
committed a horrible crime, and as Brenda fights for him to be
sentenced as a child, she learns it's the laws inside the house
that matter most: boys can become men, and a mother can at once
become victim and monster. How far does a mother's love go, and at
what cost to herself?
A love story about transition, testosterone, and James Dean. Josh
and Isabella are childhood sweethearts. They were meant to spend
their gap year together, they were meant to be together forever.
But Isabella has now become a boy. Pronoun was commissioned as part
of the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by
youth theatres across the UK. Especially written for young actors,
the play can be performed by a cast of seven, with some doubling of
roles, or a much larger cast.
This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by
award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing
young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to
read, study and perform. Girls Like That explores the pressures
caused by technology when a schoolgirl's naked photograph goes
viral. Commissioned in 2013 by Birmingham Repertory Theatre,
Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, it has
subsequently been performed by school and youth-theatre groups
across the UK, at the Unicorn Theatre, London, and in the Houses of
Parliament. It won the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Young
Audiences. Banana Boys, published here for the first time, is about
the challenges of being on the school football team - and secretly
gay. It was commissioned and produced by Hampstead Theatre's
heat&light company in 2010. In Holloway Jones, Holloway dreams
of being a world-class BMXer, but she is held back by the tough
reality of a parent in prison. Also making its debut in print here,
the play was commissioned by Synergy Theatre Project, toured
schools and the Unicorn Theatre in 2011, and won the 2012 Brian Way
Award for Best Play for Young People. Finally, Pronoun is a love
story about two childhood sweethearts dealing with the fact that
one of them, Isabella, has now become a boy. As one of the plays in
the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival it proved enormously
popular with youth theatres and college companies. 'Maybe change
starts with plays like this' Lyn Gardner, Guardian, on Girls Like
That
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