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Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.

Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department over the years, with the young performer in mind. In 2016, these plays were then performed by approximately 500 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional partner regional theatres at which the works were showcased.

The anthology contains all 12 of the play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups.

This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt; Simon Armitage; Jackie Kay; Patrick Marber; Mark Ravenhill; Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly; Davey Anderson; James Graham; Katori Hall; Carl Grose; Stacey Gregg; and Lucinda Coxon.

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Blackout by Davey Anderson
Eclipse by Simon Armitage
What Are They Like? by Lucinda Coxon
Bassett by James Graham
I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here by Stacey Gregg
Gargantua by Carl Grose
Children of Killers by Katori Hall
Take Away by Jackie Kay
It Snows by Bryony Lavery, Steven Hoggett & Scott Graham
The Musicians by Patrick Marber
Citizenship by Mark Ravenhill
Bedbug by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt

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SNOO WILSON was one of a handful of playwrights who reinvented British theatre in the 1970s and 80s. Together with Howard Brenton, David Hare and Tony Bicât he founded Portable Theatre Company, which presented his early work, including the still-performed Pignight. His other plays include The Pleasure Principe, The Glad Hand (Royal Court), The Soul of a White Ant, Vampire, The Number of the Beast, More Light, Darwin's Flood (Bush Theatre), The Beast (RSC), Orpheus in the Underworld (ENO), Bedbug, a musical (with Gary Kemp & Guy Pratt) based on Mayakovsky's 1929 satire (NT Connections 1995, 2016), and Reclining Nude with Black Stockings (Arcola Theatre). Following his sudden death in 2013, the many obituaries honouring both the man and the playwright confirmed that, at their exuberant, inventive and utterly original best, Snoo's plays deserve their place in the country's history of post-war playwrighting. "He encouraged audiences to go on a rollercoaster ride into the beyond, albeit with engaging and recognisable characters. It was not whimsy. He was a one-off, quite unlike any other dramatist." Dusty Hughes, Guardian.

An archive of Snoo's work will soon be available at the University of East Anglia. His plays are published by Methuen Drama and represented by Micheline Steinberg Associates [e-mail]
Jackie Kay was born and brought up in Scotland. She is the author of – among other books – The Adoption Papers, which won the Forward Prize, Red Dust Road, winner of the Scottish Book of the Year Award, Trumpet, and the Costa-shortlisted
Fiere. She is Chancellor of the University of Salford and Professor of Creative Writing at Newcastle University. She has served as Scots Makar, the National Poet for Scotland, since March 2016.
Patrick Marber was born in London. His first play, Dealer's Choice, premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in February 1995. It won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Writers' Guild Award for Best West End Play. Closer premiered at the Royal National Theatre in May 1997. It won the Evening Standard Award for Best Comedy and the Critics' Circle Award and Laurence Olivier Award for Best Play. Closer premiered on Broadway in March 1999 where it won the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for Best Foreign Play. Howard Katz premiered at the Royal National Theatre, London, in September 2001. Patrick Marber has also written extensively for television and radio including After Miss Julie (BBC, 1995).A rounded theatre practitioner, Bryony Lavery's skills extend to performer (most notably as Tinkerbell in Peter Pan at the Drill Hall), artistic director (Gay Sweatshop and Female Trouble), writer of children's theatre (including The Dragon Wakes, Madagaskar, and Down Among the Mini Beast) and of many cabarets (including Floorshow with Caryl Churchill for Monstrous Regiment in 1977). From 1989 to 1992 she was Tutor-Lecturer on the M.A. Playwriting Course at Birmingham University. She is an honorary Doctor of Arts at De Montfort University. 'Lavery is one of the best but most consistently underrated playwrights in the country: her talent is lavish. She is a wonderful technician and always surprising: it is never possible to second-guess her.' – Kate Kellaway, ObserverDavey Anderson is from Glasgow and his work as Playwright/Director includes: Snuff, (Arches Theatre, as winner of the Arches Award for Stage Directors, runner up Meyer-Whitworth Award), Rupture (NTS & Traverse Theatre) and Blackout (National Theatre New Connections & Citizens Theatre Young Company). His other plays include: Flicker (as part of the 200th play, Òran Mór), Playback (Ankur Productions), Wired (Òran Mór), Liar (TAG Theatre Company & Sounds of Progress, Best Show for Children and Young People, Critics Award for Theatre in Scotland) and Clutter Keeps Company (Birds of Paradise). Adaptations include: Zorro (Visible Fictions & Traverse Theatre). Co-Writing/Directing credits include: Mixter Maxter (NTS & St Magnus Festival, Orkney). As Associate Director he collaborated with New York based company The T.E.A.M. on Architecting (Co-Production with NTS). His work as Musical Director/Composer includes: Peter Pan (NTS & Barbican), Be Near Me (NTS & Donmar Warehouse), Oresteia (Lazzi Experimental Arts Unit & Cumbernauld Theatre) and Black Watch (National Theatre of Scotland, world tour). He was Director in Residence with the National Theatre of Scotland 2006-07 and is currently an Associate Playwright with the Playwrights' Studio Scotland 2010-11.James Graham is a multi award-winning playwright and screenwriter.

His play This House gained critical acclaim, enjoyed a sell-out run at the National Theatre’s Olivier in 2013 and its 2017 West End revival was Olivier-nominated. It was chosen by popular vote as the best play of the 2010’s by Methuen Drama.

James created theatre history when his two plays Ink, about the early days of Rupert Murdoch, and Labour of Love, a romantic political comedy, played in theatres next to each other in the West End in 2017. James won an Olivier award in 2018 for Labour of Love and Ink transferred to Broadway in 2019, receiving six Tony award nominations.

James’ play The Vote (Donmar Warehouse) aired in real time on TV in the final 90 minutes of the 2015 polling day and was BAFTA-nominated. His most recent television film, Brexit: An Uncivil War (Channel 4/HBO) is nominated for a 2019 Emmy Award.
Katori Hall is from Memphis, Tennessee. Her play The Mountaintop was first produced to great acclaim at Theatre503, London, in June 2009, and received a transfer to the Trafalgar Studios, London, the following month. It won the Olivier Award for Best New Play in 2010, and opened in Broadway's Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre, New York City, in October 2011. Her other plays include Hurt Village (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, BRIC Studio, 2007), Hoodoo Love (Cherry Lane Theatre, New York, 2007), Remembrance (Women's Project/World Financial Center site-specific work, 2007), Saturday Night/Sunday Morning (Classical Theatre of Harlem Future Classics Reading Series, The Schomburg Centre, New York, 2008), WHADDABLOODCLOT!!!, The Hope Well and Pussy Valley. Her numerous awards include the 2007 Fellowship of Southern Writers Bryan Family Award in Drama, a 2006 New York Foundation of the Arts Fellowship in Playwriting and Screenwriting, a residency at the Royal Court Theatre in 2006, and the 2005 Lorraine Hansberry Playwriting award.Carl Grose was born in Truro, Cornwall, and is an actor and director, having worked with Kneehigh Theatre for the past fifteen years. He also co-founded the Cornish theatre and film production company, o-region.Stacey Gregg’s credits include: Lights Out (The Site Programme); Nod If You
Can Hear Me (The Big Idea) for the Royal Court, Scorch (Prime Cut);
Choices (Royal Exchange, Manchester/WoW Festival, Southbank/
Dublin Fringe/Outburst); Override (Watford Palace/Dublin Fringe);
Shibboleth, Perve (Abbey, Dublin). Television includes: The Innocents,
Riviera, The Frankenstein Chronicles, Your Ma’s a Hard Brexit. As
Performer: Everything Between Us (Project Arts Centre); Moth
(Hightide, the Bush).
Lucinda Coxon was born in Derby. Her plays and films include Mornings After (1985), And One Another (1988); Bird Bones (1989); Improbabilities (a group of short plays for Loose Exchange Company, 1989); Eddie's Proposal (BBC studio screenplay, 1990); Waiting at the Water's Edge (1992); Spaghetti Slow (1993); Lily and the Secret Planting (screenplay, 1994); and Wishbones (1995). Her adaptation of Tarjei Vesaas's Norwegian novel Is-Slottet was published by Methuen Drama in 1995 in Making Scenes 3: four short plays for young actors.Rufus Norris is the Artistic Director of the National Theatre

Riassunto

Drawing together the work of 12 leading playwrights, this National Theatre Connections anthology celebrates highlights from 21 years of the Connections festival with a retrospective selection of plays.

Featuring work by some of the most prolific playwrights of the 20th and 21st centuries, and together in one volume, the anthology offers young performers between the ages of 13 and 19 an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.

Each play has been specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department over the years, with the young performer in mind. In 2016, these plays were then performed by approximately 500 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional partner regional theatres at which the works were showcased.

The anthology contains all 12 of the play scripts; notes from the writer and director of each play, addressing the themes and ideas behind the play; and production notes and exercises for the drama groups.

This year's anniversary anthology includes plays by Snoo Wilson, Gary Kemp and Guy Pratt; Simon Armitage; Jackie Kay; Patrick Marber; Mark Ravenhill; Bryony Lavery & Frantic Assembly; Davey Anderson; James Graham; Katori Hall; Carl Grose; Stacey Gregg; and Lucinda Coxon.

Prefazione

This is the sixth National Theatre Connections anthology published by Methuen Drama, aimed at young performers and schools, and published to coincide with the Connections' 21st anniversary.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Davey Anderson, Anderson Davey, Simon Armitage, Lucinda Coxon, Frantic assembly, James Graham, Stacey Gregg, Carl Grose, Grose Carl, Katori Hall, Hall Katori, Jackie Kay, Jackie (Author) Kay, Bryony Lavery, Bryony (Author) Lavery, Lavery Bryony, Patrick Marber, Mark Ravenhill, Ravenhill Mark, Snoo Wilson, Snoo Armitage Wilson, Snoo Kay Wilson, Wilson Snoo
• Con la collaborazione di: Rufus Norris (Introduzione), Norris Rufus (Introduzione)
• Editore: Bloomsbury
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 29.02.2016
• EAN: 9781474284134
• ISBN: 978-1-4742-8413-4
• Pagine: 752
• Serie: Methuen Drama; Plays for Young People
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Arte > Teatro, balletto; DRAMA / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / General, Anthologies: general, Anthologies (non-poetry), Plays, Playscripts, Anthologies