Producers' Choice - Six Plays for Young Performers

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.

ISBN 1408128853   Pages 432 ISBN13 9781408128855 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 340 Publisher A & C Black Publishers Ltd   Published in London Imprint Methuen Drama   Series title Play Anthologies Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 15 Oct 2010   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 822.9208   Spine width (mm) 26 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level General

		Introduction
		Promise		1
		Oedipus/Antigone		55
		Tory Boyz		119
		The Butterfly Club		187
		Alice's Adventures in Wonderland		251
		Punk Rock		313

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