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Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors
East End Tales; The Odyssey; The Playground; Stuff I Buried in a Small Town; Sweetpeter; Wan2tlk?
Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors
East End Tales; The Odyssey; The Playground; Stuff I Buried in a Small Town; Sweetpeter; Wan2tlk?
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Description
Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance.
Varying in style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the mythological world of The Odyssey to a dramatisation of two hundred years of slavery that will take the audience on a journey from eighteenth century Africa to 1990s London in Sweetpeter.
Contemporary urban living is confronted in plays ranging from the starkly realistic to the playful, lyrical and surrealistic. From the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground to issues of racism, peer pressure, crime and communication in a mobile phone obsessed culture, this is a wide-ranging anthology that will enrich the repertoire of youth theatre groups and the curriculum in schools.
The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, artistic director of the National Youth Theatre.
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Product details

Published | 25 Apr 2014 |
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Format | Ebook (Epub & Mobi) |
Edition | 1st |
Extent | 352 |
ISBN | 9781408149935 |
Imprint | Methuen Drama |
Series | Play Anthologies |
Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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Reviews
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'Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies.'
Dawn, Library News
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'High quality work suitable for young performers'
SLA
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"What is really useful about this book is the flexibility of each play."
Teaching Drama (Summer 2009)
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Do you have difficulty finding short, recent plays suitable for largish groups of young actors? Try the ones in Methuen Drama's new Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors.
Susan Elkin, The Stage