National Theatre Connections 2021: 11 Plays for Young People

National Theatre Connections 2021: 11 Plays for Young People
Mojisola Adebayo, John Donnelly, Vivienne Franzmann, Hattie Naylor, National Theatre, Frances Poet, Miriam Battye, Alison Carr, Andrew Muir
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Each year, the National Theatre commissions ten new plays for young people to perform, bringing together some of the UK' s most exciting writers with the theatre-makers of tomorrow. This 2021 pack captures the two new plays written for the 2021 festival that are perfect for schools and youth groups to perform and study. Written with flexibility in mind, these are perfect for exploration both virtually and in-person, responding to the restrictions in place due to Covid-19. It also includes National Theatre Connections 2020 anthology which features 9 plays, 8 of which are included in the 2021 festival performances. The plays included in this pack are: Find a Partner by Miriam BattyeLike There' s No Tomorrow, created by the Belgrade Young Company with Justine Themen, Claire Procter and Liz MyttonWind / Rush Generation(s) by Mojisola AdebayoTuesday by Alison CarrA series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) by John DonnellyTHE IT by Vivienne FranzmannThe Marxist in Heaven by Hattie NaylorLook Up by Andrew MuirCrusaders by Frances PoetWitches Can' t Be Burned by Silva SemerciyanDungeness by Chris Thompson .
Mojisola Adebayo is a playwright, performer, director, producer, workshop facilitator and lecturer. She has a BA in Drama and Theatre Arts, an MA in Physical Theatre and her PhD is entitled Afriquia Theatre: Creating Black Queer Ubuntu Through Performance (Goldsmiths, Royal Holloway and Queen Mary, University of London). Mojisola trained extensively with Augusto Boal and is an international specialist in Theatre of the Oppressed, often working in locations of crisis and conflict. She has worked in theatre, radio and television, on four continents, over the past 25 years, performing in over 50 productions, writing, devising and directing over 30 plays, and leading countless workshops, from Antarctica to Zimbabwe. Her own authored plays include Moj of the Antarctic: An African Odyssey (Lyric Hammersmith and Ovalhouse, London), Muhammad Ali and Me (Ovalhouse, Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), 48 Minutes for Palestine (Ashtar Theatre and international touring), Desert Boy (Albany Theatre, London and UK touring), The Listeners (Pegasus Theatre, Oxford), I Stand Corrected (Artscape, Ovalhouse, London and international touring and The Interrogation of Sandra Bland (Bush Theatre, London). Hattie Naylor has won several national and international awards for her plays, and has much of her work broadcast on BBC Radio, including Mathilde, Solaris, The Making of Ivan the Terrible, Ivan and the Dogs (Tinniswood Award for Best Original Radio Drama in 2009), and Clarissa. The stage version of Ivan and the Dogs was nominated in the 2010 Olivier Awards for Outstanding Achievement. Theatre and opera work include Going Dark, Mother Savage, the opera Odysseus Unwound, The Nutcracker, Ben Hur, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Samuel Pepys' Diaries, Piccard in Space, and The Dark Art of Forgetting. Andrew Muir is a critically acclaimed writer for stage and screen with works including Double Sentence and Gold Dust (Deafinitely Theatre/Soho Theatre) and the short film A Family Man. He is the Literary Associate for Deafinitely Theatre for whom he adapted Love' s Labours Lost as part of the London 2012 Festival at Shakespeare' s Globe. His short radio play The Perfect Non Starter was broadcast on BBC Radio 3' s The Verb in 2014. He also lectures at Bournemouth and Poole College. Frances Poet is a Glasgow-based writer. Her stage work includes Gut (Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2018); Adam (National Theatre of Scotland at the Traverse Theatre, 2017); Faith Fall (Oran Mor and Bristol' s Tobacco Factory, 2012) and What Put the Blood (Abbey Theatre, 2017). She has also written a number of free adaptations including Strindberg' s Dance of Death (Citizens Theatre, 2016) and Moliere' s The Misanthrope (Oran Mor, 2014). Silva Semerciyan is a native of Michigan and she moved to the UK in 1998. While at university, she wrote Another Man' s Son which won the William Saroyan Prize for Playwriting. Silva Semerciyan' s play Gather Ye Rosebuds won the Best New Play award at the Brighton Fringe Festival in 2013. She holds a BA in English from the University of Michigan and an MPhil in Playwriting from the University of Birmingham. She currently lectures in Drama and English in Bristol and is on attachment to the National Theatre Studio.
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ISBN-13: 9781350233744
Published: 17 Jun 2021
Published In: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback
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