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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.
Fans of The Power will love this addictive novel' Stylist A
masterful speculative novel exploring the fine lines between faith,
conspiracy, and mania in contemporary America. While lying in bed
next to her husband one night, Claire Devon hears a low hum that he
cannot. And, it seems, no one else can either. This innocuous noise
begins causing Claire headaches, nosebleeds, insomnia, gradually
upsetting the balance of her life, though no obvious source or
medical cause can be found. When she discovers that a student of
hers can also hear the hum, the two strike up an unlikely and
intimate friendship. Finding themselves increasingly isolated from
their families and colleagues, they fall in with a disparate group
of neighbours who also perceive the sound. What starts as a
neighbourhood self-help group gradually transforms into something
far more extreme and with far-reaching, devastating consequences.
The Listeners is an exhilarating and erotic novel exploring the
seduction of the wild and unknowable, the human search for the
transcendent, the rise of conspiracy culture in the West, and the
desire for community and connection in our increasingly polarised
times.
They're going to kill you. They're going to worship you, don't get
me wrong. But they are going to kill you. Playboy Sandro Botticelli
has it all: talent, fame, good looks. He also has the ear - and the
wife - of Lorenzo de Medici, as well as the Florence's hottest
young apprentice, Leonardo. But whilst he is at work on his
breakthrough commission, The Birth of Venus, Botticelli's devotion
to pleasure and beauty is put to the ultimate test. As plague
sweeps through the city, the charismatic friar Girolamo Savonarola
starts to stoke the fires of dissent against the liberal elite.
Botticelli finds the life he knows breaking apart, forcing him to
choose between love and survival. Jordan Tannahill's hot-blooded
queering of Renaissance Italy questions how much of ourselves we
are willing to sacrifice when society comes off the rails.
Botticelli in the Fire made its European premiere at Hampstead
Theatre, London, in October 2019.
From award-winning playwright and filmmaker Jordan Tannahill comes
a masterful and moving novel in the tradition of Ben Lerner's
Leaving the Atocha Station and Sheila Heti's How Should a Person
Be. At 11:04 a.m. on January 21st, 2017, Jordan opens the door to
his mother's bedroom. As his eyes adjust to the half-light, he
finds her lying in bed, eyes closed and mouth agape. In that
instant he cannot tell whether she is asleep or dead. The sight of
his mother's body, caught between these two possibilities, causes
Jordan to plunge headlong into the uncertain depths of
consciousness itself. From androids to cannibals to sex clubs, an
unforgettable personal odyssey emerges, populated by a cast of
sublime outsiders in search for the ever-elusive nature of self.
Part ontological thriller, part millennial saga, Liminal is a
riotous and moving portrait of a young man in volatile times, a
generation caught in suspended animation, and a son's enduring love
for his mother.
Three of Jordan Tannahill's fresh and riveting works are featured
in this collection, including "Get Yourself Home Skyler James,"
"Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes," and "rihannaboi95."
Based on a true story, "Get Yourself Home Skyler James" follows the
harrowing journey of a young lesbian who defects from the army when
she is outed by fellow soldiers. "Peter Fechter: 59 Minutes"
chronicles the last hour of Peter Fechter's life, a teenager in
East Berlin shot while attempting to cross the Berlin Wall in 1962
with his companion. Finally, the award-winning "rihannaboi95"
centers around a Toronto teen whose world comes crashing in when
YouTube videos of him dancing to songs by his favourite pop heroine
go viral. Together these solo plays explore the lives of three
queer youth and their resilience in the face of violence and
intolerance.
..".one of Canada's most promising young independent theatre
artists."--Alison Broverman, "Toronto Star"
Jordan Tannahill is a Toronto-based playwright, director, and
filmmaker. Through his company Suburban Beast, he has developed and
presented plays at theatres including Buddies in Bad Times,
Canadian Stage, Theatre Passe Muraille, and the Theatre Centre.
Jordan is the 2011 recipient of the Inside Out Film Festival's
Emerging Canadian Artist Award, the 2011 Ken McDougall Award for
Emerging Directors, and the 2012 Enbridge playRites Award. He runs
a storefront theatre called Videofag in Toronto's Kensington Market
with his partner William.
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