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This second volume of plays from award-winning playwright Fin
Kennedy features three ensemble plays for large casts of young
people aged thirteen to nineteen, each developed via a long-term,
collaborative process with the target age group. In The Dream
Collector, a school group on a Media Studies field trip to the
isolated country house of a black-and-white movie pioneer enter a
sinister dreamworld when they go exploring after dark. Once they
step through the movie screen, each of the young friends meets
their dream double, the sinister Neverborn... In Fast, a
twenty-four-hour school fundraiser in a semi-rural town takes on a
new urgency when farmer's daughter Cara refuses to eat again until
the supermarkets she holds responsible for her father's suicide
agree to her demands. In The Domino Effect - a five-star hit at the
2014 Edinburgh Festival Fringe - a silent girl finds her voice, and
her mother, when a mysterious East End antiques dealer teaches her
how small actions lead to big effects, and how to master the law of
unintended consequences. With their flexible, mixed casts, the
plays are particularly suited to performance by young people's
groups, who will enjoy the demands and challenges of playing roles
specifically created for teenage actors.
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.
Four plays from award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy, created in
parnership with Mulberry School in East London - ideal for
performance by schools and youth groups. Tender, uncompromising,
haunting and lyrical, these four plays together comprise a
contemporary chronicle of the lives of East London's young women.
In The Urban Girl's Guide to Camping, four young friends leave the
city behind and head into the wilderness, but a burning secret
threatens to tear their lives apart. A bittersweet comedy about
life, love and friendship once school is long gone. Mehndi Night is
a touching family tale about resentment and forgiveness on the
night before a wedding, exploring the pleasures and pains of a
cross-cultural identity in twenty-first century Britain. From the
heart of London's East End, Stolen Secrets are urban fairytales,
bold, lyrical and gruesome, that can be performed individually or
together for maximum shock value. In The Unravelling, a dying
mother challenges her daughters to weave her the greatest tale,
using nothing more than pieces of cloth. A Fringe First
Award-winning fable about the power of mythology to change your
life. These plays are the result of a unique four-year partnership
between award-winning playwright Fin Kennedy and Mulberry School in
East London. Originally performed by the school at the Edinburgh
Festival Fringe and at Southwark Playhouse, London, they are
written in an ensemble storytelling style that will suit younger
performance groups around the country, especially those looking for
predominantly female roles.
The award-winning play that follows one man's desperate attempts to
buck the system, and asks what really makes us who we are in the
21st century. When a young executive reaches breaking point and
decides to disappear, he pays a visit to a master of the craft in
the form of a seafront fortune teller in Southend. Haunted by
visitations from a pathologist who swears he is already lying flat
out on her slab, he begins a nightmarish journey to the edge of
existence that sees him stripped of everything that made him who he
was. Fin Kennedy's play How To Disappear Completely and Never Be
Found won the 2005 Arts Council's John Whiting Award and was
subsequently staged at the Crucible Studio, Sheffield, in March
2007.
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Protection (Paperback)
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A tough but vulnerable play about our crumbling social fabric - and
the people who have to pick up the pieces. Protection is a
behind-the-scenes look at a team of social workers and their
'clients' in Britain's most misunderstood public service. Angela
breaks the rules to get things done - her way. Shirley misses the
old days, when protection came without a price. Their manager,
Gordon, is screwing Angela whilst busy claiming on expenses. And
for newcomer Grace, it's a struggle simply not to piss anyone off.
Fin Kennedy's play was first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in
2003.
Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written
for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and
amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of
plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance. Varying in
style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and
designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the
mythological world of The Odyssey to a dramatisation of two hundred
years of slavery that will take the audience on a journey from
eighteenth century Africa to 1990s London in Sweetpeter.
Contemporary urban living is confronted in plays ranging from the
starkly realistic to the playful, lyrical and surrealistic. From
the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground to issues
of racism, peer pressure, crime and communication in a mobile phone
obsessed culture, this is a wide-ranging anthology that will enrich
the repertoire of youth theatre groups and the curriculum in
schools. The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, artistic director
of the National Youth Theatre.
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