Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers: Promise; Oedipus/Antigone; Tory Boyz; Butterfly Club; Alice's Adventures in W

Paperback / softback

Main Details

Title Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers: Promise; Oedipus/Antigone; Tory Boyz; Butterfly Club; Alice's Adventures in W
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Paul Roseby
By (author) Megan Barker
By (author) Professor DJ Britton
By (author) James Graham
By (author) Sarah May
SeriesPlay Anthologies
Physical Properties
Format:Paperback / softback
Pages:432
Dimensions(mm): Height 198,Width 129
Category/GenrePlays, playscripts
Anthologies
ISBN/Barcode 9781408128855
ClassificationsDewey:822.9208
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Imprint Methuen Drama
Publication Date 15 October 2010
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

Producers' Choice: Six Plays for Young Performers showcases some of the best plays for young people produced by the UK's leading theatre companies. The plays are ideal for young performers aged 13-25 and offer a diverse range of challenges, styles and subjects. The volume will prove essential for teachers and students of Drama and for youth drama groups. The plays include modern reworkings of classics, such as Simon Reade's witty and brilliantly inventive adaptation of Lewis Carroll's much-loved fantasy, and DJ Britton's version of Sophocles' Theban plays, the tragic Oedipus/Antigone. Contemporary teenage issues are dealt with in Megan Barker's beautiful and uplifting Promise and Sarah May's The Butterfly Club. Simon Stephens' hit-play Punk Rock set in a grammar school explores dislocation and aggression among sixth form pupils; James Graham's Tory Boyz is a fast-paced, political comedy about prejudice and ambition in Westminster. Each play features production notes and the volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre. For schools, youth theatre groups and drama colleges this anthology of thematically and stylistically diverse plays will prove an invaluable resource.

Author Biography

Six playwrights as selected by six different theatre companies from around the UK. Editor Paul Roseby is the Artistic Director of the National Youth Theatre of Great Britain.