This brilliant new collection of ten plays for young people will prove indispensable to schools, colleges and youth theatre groups. Specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the Connections Festival 2011 involving 200 schools and youth theatre groups across the UK and Ireland, each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises. The Pied Piper re-imagined, the aftermath of genocide in Rwanda, witches in seventeenth century Norfolk, a giant baby on the rampage, an extraordinary day in an ordinary school are just some of subjects covered in the thrilling and varied new plays created by talented writers for young actors to perform in National Theatre Connections 2011. The plays in this anthology offer a huge variety of stories and styles to ignite the imagination of young casts and creative teams. Themes are both teenage and universal - ambition, dashed hopes, fear and confidence, loyalty and betrayal. These new plays embrace a huge range for their inspiration: they plunder classics and imagine the future.

 

This book is part of a book series called Play Anthologies .

There are 544 pages in this book. This book was published 2011 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .

Noel Clarke wrote the screenplay of KIDULTHOOD in his twenties and, on an incredibly low budget, he and George Isaac made a seminal film about the lives of young Londoners. Not since TRAINSPOTTING or CITY OF GOD has a story about violence, making choices and getting by in the urban jungle made such an impression. Noel has acted in many TV dramas and series including DR WHO and CASUALTY. He plays one of the lead characters, Sam, in the film KIDULTHOOD. Noel Clarke lives in West London in the area in which the story of KIDULTHOOD is set. Jim Eldridge, who wrote the novelisation, is a screenwriter and author as well as three time Bafta judge.