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A Mirror
Sam Holcroft
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Sam Holcroft's elusive and explosive new play about censorship,
authorship and free speech, A Mirror, is premiered at the Almeida
Theatre, London, in August 2023, directed by Jeremy Herrin.
Everyone creates their own coping strategies or rules for living.
But what happens when an extended family gathers in the kitchen for
a traditional Christmas and they each follow those rules, rigidly?
As long-held mechanisms for survival are laid bare, even Mum, who's
been preparing this lunch since last January, becomes embroiled.
Time-honoured rivalries and resentments will out. Accusations fly,
relationships deconstruct, the rules take over. In Sam Holcroft's
theatrically playful, dark comedy the instructions are there for
all to see, audience included - so there's really no place to hide.
Rules for Living premiered at the National Theatre, London, in
March 2015.
Six plays by some of the most exciting and distinctive female
voices in British theatre, exploring the heartbreaking truth about
the lives of women in the criminal justice system. The plays were
commissioned and premiered by Clean Break, a theatre and education
company working with women whose lives have been affected by the
criminal justice system. Included in this volume: Fatal Light by
Chloe Moss, about a young mother's inability to cope with
separation from her daughter. Taken by Winsome Pinnock, about a
mother confronted by the child she had to give up. Dream Pill by
Rebecca Prichard, about two children forced into prostitution.
Doris Day by E V Crowe, about two police officers and their
different expectations of the job. Dancing Bears by Sam Holcroft,
about the twisted loyalties and violence in teenage gangs. That
Almost Unnameable Lust by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, about a writer
holding workshops with older women in a prison. The plays were
first performed at Soho Theatre, London, in November 2010.
A gripping journey through British history that shows how our
country was shaped and how connected we are with our past. Across
seven centuries, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the
same solid old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know - but is
it safe enough? The Wardrobe was commissioned as part of the 2014
National Theatre Connections Festival and premiered by youth
theatres across the UK. With a variety of roles for young actors,
the play can be performed by a large cast of up to twenty-eight, or
a smaller cast with doubling.
A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence. A
seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day
comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology
revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For
outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and
bloody war. Despite her best efforts, the tide of conflict is soon
lapping at the school gates and, one by one, pupils and teacher are
pulled under as their hopes and dreams float away from them. 'Sam
Holcroft is uncompromising in her ideas and deeply ambitious for
the power of theatre. It's a long time since a young writer has
thrilled me this much' Vicky Featherstone, director of the National
Theatre of Scotland's production of Cockroach
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of
established and emerging writers - this National Theatre
Connections anthology is published to coincide with the 2014
festival, which takes place across the UK and finishes up at the
National Theatre in London. It offers young performers between the
ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of
plays to perform, read or study. Each play is specifically
commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department with the
young performer in mind. The plays are performed by approximately
200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland,
in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where
the works are showcased. As with previous anthologies, the volume
will feature an introduction by Anthony Banks, Associate Director
of the National Theatre Discover Programme, and each play includes
notes from the writer and director addressing the themes and ideas
behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises. The
National Theatre Connections series has been running for nineteen
years and the anthology that accompanies it, published for the last
three years by Methuen Drama, is gaining a greater profile by the
year. Some iconic plays have grown out of the Connections programme
including Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill, Burn by Deborah Gearing,
Chatroom by Enda Walsh, Baby Girl by Roy Williams, DNA by Dennis
Kelly, and The Miracle by Lin Coghlan. The series has a
recognisable brand and the anthologies continue to be an extremely
useful resource, their value extending well beyond their year of
publication. This year's anthology includes plays by Sabrina
Mahfouz, Simon Vinnicombe, Catherine Johnson, Pauline McLynn,
Dafydd James, Luke Norris and Sam Holcroft.
A collection of wide-ranging and ambitious short plays reflecting
the complexities of women and political power in the United
Kingdom. The five plays in this volume look at the impact and
influence that women have today. In Acting Leader by Joy Wilkinson,
Margaret Beckett finds herself Acting Leader of the Opposition
after the sudden death of John Smith. The Panel by Zinnie Harris is
about the power politics underlying the selection of any candidate.
Playing the Game by Bola Agbaje is about the election of a new
President of a Students' Association. In Pink by Sam Holcroft, a
millionaire businesswoman is confronted by an unexpected visitor.
You, Me and Wii by Sue Townsend is set in a council house in a
small Leicestershire town at election time. The plays were first
performed at the Tricycle Theatre, London, as part of the Women,
Power and Politics season in June 2010. The other plays presented
in the season are available in the companion volume, Women, Power
and Politics: Then.
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