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National Theatre Connections 2022
10 Plays for Young Performers
Series: Plays for Young People
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Alongside the plays, the book provides detailed workshop notes offering valuable guidance on character development, rehearsal techniques, and staging a production, making it a practical resource for schools and youth theatre groups.
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This collection is ideal for young actors, drama educators, theatre practitioners, and youth theatre companies seeking fresh, thought-provoking plays and practical support for performance and production.
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It is the scale and range of creative collaboration inherent in theatre that sits at the very heart of National Theatre Connections.
National Theatre Connections 2022 draws together ten new plays for young people to perform, from some of the UK's most exciting playwrights. These are plays for a generation of theatre-makers who want to ask questions, challenge assertions and test the boundaries, and for those who love to invent and imagine a world of possibilities.
The plays offer young performers an engaging and diverse range of material to perform, read or study.
This 2022 anthology represents the full set of ten plays offered by the National Theatre 2022 Festival, as well as comprehensive workshop notes that give insights and inspiration for building characters, running rehearsals and staging a production.
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Book Details
INFORMATION
ISBN: 9781350320444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 16 June 2022
Country: United Kingdom
Imprint: Methuen Drama
Contributors:
- Edited by National Theatre
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 40.0mm
Width: 156.0mm
Height: 234.0mm
Weight: 921g
Pages: 624
About the Author
Lisa Goldman is a director, writer and creative consultant. David Judge is a playwright, performance poet and actor. Miriam Battye is a writer from Manchester. Fionnuala Kennedy is a writer and theatre director from Belfast. Justine Themen is a theatre director and change-maker. Claire Procter is the Belgrade Theatre’s Creative Producer for Education. Liz Mytton is a playwright and poet based in the North West. Stef Smith is a writer, originally from a small village near Stirling in Scotland. Ayeesha Menon is an actor and writer. Hofesh Shechter OBE is a writer. Tim Crouch is a UK theatre artist based in Brighton. Katie Hims is a writer for stage, screen and radio. Abbey Wright is Artistic Director of Tackroom Theatre. Shireen Mula is a playwright and theatre-maker.
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