Making Scenes 3: Short Plays for Young Actors - Indian Summer; Almost Grown; The Ice Palace; The Dark Tower

Four short plays for young actors Making Scenes 3 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995. Indian Summer by Harwant Bains; Kulwant returns to India and becomes fascinated with an ice-cream seller and the Holy Man who has sat for years with a sword through his mouth. When Kulwant pulls out the sword and offers the man a tutti-frutti ice-cream, a remarkable friendship is established. Almost Grown by Richard Cameron; set in Yorkshire this is the story of how a tragic accident has affected the lives of three friends. The Ice Palace by Lucinda Coxon; in this magical rites of passage tale Siss and Unn are best friends at school, but when Siss goes to visit her one day they set out on an adventure into a magnificent frozen waterfall from which Unn will never return. The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice; Roland must follow his ancestors'' and brothers'' footsteps on a journey through time, by ship across the sea of doubt, past ghost towns of history and through ''deserts of dried-up hopes'', until he reaches the Dark Tower. Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.

About the author

Harwant S. Bains's Blood was first staged at The Royal Court theatre with Saeed Jaffrey and directed by Lindsay Posner. Bains is also the co-editor of Multi Racist Britain (1988).

Product details

• Authors: Harwant Bains, Harwant S Bains, Harwant S. Bains, Harwant S. Cameron Bains, Richard Cameron, Lucinda Coxon, Lou MacNeice, Louis MacNeice
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 17.07.1995
• EAN: 9780413698605
• ISBN: 978-0-413-69860-5
• No. of pages: 240
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 216 mm x 14 mm
• Series: Play Anthologies; Play Anthologies
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies