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In a bleak, remote town, a small child is murdered. Suspicion falls
on nine-year-old Lizzie. Angela, Lizzie's young mother, is
convinced her daughter is guilty. She must make the torturous
choice between ignoring what her intuition tells her, and
presenting Lizzie to the police with painfully extracted
information. Lizzie is constantly haunted by a 'Wolf', which seems
to overwhelm her and, in her own words, 'swallow' her. It is not
only Lizzie who is changed forever by the act. Her father Warren,
bewildered and full of denial, and the local policeman, Ray, find
their accepted beliefs crumbling around them. And Angela, at the
end of the play, does not know how she will go on. (2 male; 2
female).
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Angela's Kitchen (Paperback)
Paul Capsis, Hilary Bell, Julian Meyrick
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In 1948, Angela left Malta. Having gathered up five children, she
sailed out on the Strathnavar, leaving poverty and the war behind.
Her destination: Australia. In Surry Hills, she could build a
bright new life. Back in Malta, someone else has made a journey.
Making his way along Kalkara's glistening harbourside, a young man
with flowing black hair has returned to claim his past. Paul Capsis
is walking home.
This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will
prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups.
Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections
Festival 2012 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across
the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes
and exercises. Power struggles, rites of passage, love and
forbidden relationships are some of the rich themes that run
through the 2012 cycle of plays. Some are deeply funny, some are
provocative and some reflective; and one has really catchy songs!
For the 2012 Festival, the anthology has an international feel and
offers a window on the world. It includes from Australia a play
based on a nineteenth century court case in which a teenage girl
was falsely convicted; from Brazil a drama about young lovers
doomed to tragedy; set in Russia, a play exploring differing
attitudes to National Service and the collapse of the Soviet Union
in 1991; a drama about students' rights to an education and the
Cultural Revolution of 1966 in China; and a comedy involving a
group of Irish country girls travelling to London to audition for
the X-Factor.
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