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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 .
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Still (Paperback)
Frances Poet
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'Folk say you can trick a brain. Placebo power... I'm going to
stand up and it'll feel better.' Gaynor's got to leave the house if
she wants to meet her newborn grand-daughter. Stillness has been
the only way to deal with her chronic pain but now it's time to
move. Gilly's not sure what her dying dad is feeling but she knows,
from experience, that it's best not to Google it. Dougie and Ciara
have spent their last NCT class preparing for the labour pains
ahead, but now it's time for one last night on the dance floor. And
then there's Mick, who wakes up on Portobello Beach in the early
hours of the morning with two gold rings in his pocket. He can't
remember what they're for but he knows it's something important.
He'll work out what if only his old pal, Pat, will stop buying him
drinks... Five Edinburgh souls stagger towards each other and are
transformed. Full of tenderness and humour, Frances Poet's play
Still is a cathartic story of life, loss and joy. It premiered at
the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the 2021 Edinburgh Festival
Fringe, directed by the theatre's Artistic Director Gareth
Nicholls.
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Fibres (Paperback)
Frances Poet
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'We were two weans playing at wee hooses... Now we're both paying
the price.' Jack is proud of his work at the Clyde shipyards. His
wife, Beanie, who is nursing him through asbestosis, thinks he's a
fool. But the real test of their marriage comes when they discover
that the dusty overalls Jack brought home for Beanie to wash have
poisoned her too. Meanwhile their daughter, Lucy, is struggling;
will she be held back by her parents' experience, or will she have
the courage to allow romance to blossom with Pete? Frances Poet's
play Fibres is a big-hearted, hilarious drama about what it means
to entwine our lives with another. A story told by four resilient,
witty Glaswegian characters, the play asks can we ever cut the
cords that bind us - and who will catch us if we do? The play
toured Scotland in 2019, in a co-production between Stellar Quines
Theatre Company and the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow.
'They say we're like swans. Ruddy beautiful graceful things on the
surface of a lake but underneath we're paddling like mad.' Maggie
and Gordon first met, dancing to Rod Stewart songs, in 1971. Now in
their sixties, and still very much in love, they've been finishing
each other's songs all their marriage. But now Maggie is feeling
foggy and some days the songs are all she can remember. Her son and
his new girlfriend are coming to dinner, and her best friend is
asking questions. Frances Poet's play Maggie May is an
extraordinary drama about an ordinary family who must balance the
challenges of daily life whilst living with dementia. A heartfelt
and inspiring story of hope, it was first produced in 2020 by Leeds
Playhouse, Curve Theatre, Leicester, and Queen's Theatre
Hornchurch, directed by Jemima Levick. It was a finalist for the
2020-21 Susan Smith Blackburn Prize.
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.
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Adam (Paperback)
Frances Poet
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If you are born in a country where being yourself can get you
killed, exile is your only choice. Frances Poet's play Adam is the
remarkable true story of a young trans man having to make that
choice and begin his journey. It charts Adam's progress from Egypt
to Scotland, across borders and genders, in his search for a place
to call home. The play was first performed by the National Theatre
of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, during the
Edinburgh Festival Fringe 2017, where it won a Fringe First award.
It was directed by Cora Bissett, with music by Jocelyn Pook, and
starred Adam Kashmiry, whose story inspired the play. A TV movie
based on the play, written by Frances Poet and also starring Adam
Kashmiry, was made by Hopscotch Films and National Theatre of
Scotland, and was broadcast by the BBC in 2021. The film was the
winner in the Television Scripted category at the 2021 BAFTA
Scotland Awards.
Bringing together five plays commissioned specially for the RADA
Elders Company, this anthology provides a selection of dynamic and
thought-provoking works for elders companies anywhere. The RADA
Elders Company began in 2013 in order to provide opportunities for
older people to experience the academy's training at its best. Each
year, a playwright is invited to create a new piece for the
company, encompassing a wide range of theatre disciplines and
skills. This collection features five pieces that showcase the
breadth and diversity of RADA Elders commissions: Broken Pieces by
A. C. Smith Our Father by Deborah Bruce The Word by Nell Leyshon
Down the Hatch by Frances Poet Of Blood by Christopher William Hill
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Gut (Paperback)
Frances Poet
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Maddy and Rory are devoted parents to 3-year-old Joshua, committed
to keeping him happy and safe. But when an everyday visit to a
supermarket cafe turns into a far more troubling incident, their
trust even in those closest to them is shattered. Fear and doubt
consume them, until they reach a savage breaking point. Gut is a
taut psychological thriller that explores who we can trust with our
children. And whether it's more dangerous not to trust at all.
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