This collection features four urgent and explosive plays by
award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing
young people today. They provide ideal material for teenagers to read,
study and perform. Girls Like That explores the pressures caused by
technology when a schoolgirl’s naked photograph goes viral.
Commissioned in 2013 by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal
Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, it has subsequently been
performed by school and youth-theatre groups across the UK, at the
Unicorn Theatre, London, and in the Houses of Parliament. It won the
Writers’ Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences. Banana Boys,
published here for the first time, is about the challenges of being on
the school football team – and secretly gay. It was commissioned and
produced by Hampstead Theatre’s heat&light company in 2010. In
Holloway Jones, Holloway dreams of being a world-class BMXer, but she
is held back by the tough reality of a parent in prison. Also making
its debut in print here, the play was commissioned by Synergy Theatre
Project, toured schools and the Unicorn Theatre in 2011, and won the
2012 Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People. Finally, Pronoun
is a love story about two childhood sweethearts dealing with the fact
that one of them, Isabella, has now become a boy. As one of the plays
in the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival it proved enormously
popular with youth theatres and college companies. ‘Maybe change
starts with plays like this’ Lyn Gardner, Guardian, on Girls Like
That. 'I don't censor the world for young people'. Read an extract
from Evan Placey's introduction to this volume, published in The
Guardian.
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ISBN
9781780017600
Publisert
2018
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Nick Hern Books (FF)
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Engelsk
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Digital bok
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