This new Student Edition of Dennis Kellys popular play DNA contains introductory commentary and notes by Clare Finburgh Delijani, which gives an in-depth analysis of the plays context and themes. As well as the complete text of the play, this new Methuen Drama Student Edition includes: An introduction to the playwright and social context of the play Discussion of the context, themes, characters and dramatic form Overview of staging and performance history of the play Bibliography of suggested primary and secondary materials for further study. Dennis Kelly's play DNA centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances. When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done.

 

 

This book has been graded for interest at 12-18 years.

There are 112 pages in this book.

It is aimed at Young Adult readers. The term Young Adult (YA) is used for books which have the following characteristics: (1) aimed at ages 12-18 years, US grades 7-12, UK school years 8-15, (2) around 50-75k words long, (3) main character is aged 12-18 years, (4) topics include self-reflection, internal conflict vs external, analyzing life and its meaning, (5) point of view is often in the first person, and (6) swearing, violence, romance and sexuality are allowed.

This book was published in 2021 by Bloomsbury Publishing PLC .