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Informationen zum Autor Martin Travers is an award-winning playwright based in Lanark, Scotland. He is a founding member of Braw Clan, the Scots Language Theatre Company. His play Secret Wrapped in Lead , inspired by Dorothy Wordsworth's visit to Leadhills in South Lanarkshire in 1803, was Braw Clan's first professional production and toured venues throughout Clydesdale in July 2023. His award-winning play Scarfed for Life is studied in all Glasgow secondary schools and his play The Kids Are Alt Right about teenagers becoming radicalised online was launched as a national secondary schools' resource by the Scottish Government and Education Scotland in autumn 2023. Martin's punk play, written for the WAC Ensemble (Scotland's first professionally supported Care Experienced theatre group) won the Writer's Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences in 2022. Klappentext Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories. One ideology tears them apart. Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now. Britney's views about everything are changing dramatically. She's getting drawn into the alt right online. When Fatma is sent something sinister through the post it triggers a series of decisions that will destroy their lives and their teacher's life for ever. Britney's brother Jordan is pals with Quinn. Quinn is proud to be right wing. That is until he falls deeply into its darkness and finds he's in over his head with a blade in his pocket. All four teenagers lives are changed forever - engulfed in the fallout of when damaging influence leads to damaging actions.This is an unflinching exploration of how young people today are prey to a range of extreme ideologies and how helpless people in their real lives are to stop them imploding. The Kids Are Alt Right is a cautionary tale of how social media and YouTube content can lead to actions and consequences that can never be undone. Vorwort A tale of how the culture of social media can cultivate extremist ideologies and dismantle religious tolerance Zusammenfassung Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories. One ideology tears them apart. Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now. Britney’s views about everything are changing dramatically. She’s getting drawn into the alt right online. When Fatma is sent something sinister through the post it triggers a series of decisions that will destroy their lives and their teacher’s life for ever. Britney’s brother Jordan is pals with Quinn. Quinn is proud to be right wing. That is until he falls deeply into its darkness and finds he’s in over his head with a blade in his pocket. All four teenagers lives are changed forever - engulfed in the fallout of when damaging influence leads to damaging actions.This is an unflinching exploration of how young people today are prey to a range of extreme ideologies and how helpless people in their real lives are to stop them imploding. The Kids Are Alt Right is a cautionary tale of how social media and YouTube content can lead to actions and consequences that can never be undone....
