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National Theatre Connections 2013: The Guffin; Mobile Phone Show; What Are They Like?; We Lost Elijah; I'm Spilling My Heart Out Here; Tomorrow I'll B
Drawing together the work of ten leading playwrights - a mixture of established and current writers - National Theatre Connections 2013 offers young performers between the ages of thirteen and nineteen everywhere an engaging selection of plays to perform, read or study.
Each play is specifically commissioned by the National Theatre's literary department and reflects the past year's programming at the venue in the plays' ideas, themes and styles. The plays are performed by approximately 200 schools and youth theatre companies across the UK and Ireland, in partnership with multiple professional regional theatres where the works are showcased.
The volume features an introduction by Anthony Banks, Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, and each play includes notes from the writer and director addressing the themes and ideas behind the play, as well as production notes and exercises.
Published to coincide with the 2013 Connections festival, and the 50th anniversary of the National Theatre, this year's collection features work from Howard Brenton, Jim Cartwright, Lucinda Coxon, Ryan Craig, Stacey Gregg, Jonathan Harvey, Lenny Henry, Jemma Kennedy, Morna Pearson, and Anya Reiss.
Book Details
- Publisher: Methuen Drama
- Publish Date: May 16th, 2013
- Pages: 592
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.60in - 5.10in - 1.70in - 1.15lb
- EAN: 9781408184363
- Categories: • Drama• European - English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh
About the Author
Craig, Ryan: - Ryan Craig is the Founding Managing Director of University Ventures, a private equity fund focused on establishing next-generation postsecondary education companies through partnerships with traditional colleges and universities. He was the Founding Director of Bridgepoint Education, has served as advisor to the Department of Education and as Vice President of Strategic Development for Fathom, the Columbia University online education venture that was the first online consortium of world-class educational and cultural institutions.
Brenton, Howard: - Howard Brenton is one of the UK's most respected dramatists. His acclaimed plays include The Romans In Britain, Bloody Poetry, Weapons of Happiness, Pravda with David Hare and, more recently, In Extremis, Anne Boleyn and Doctor Scroggy's War for Shakespeare's Globe, Paul and Never So Good for the National Theatre, and 55 Days, The Arrest of Ai Weiwei, Drawing the Line and Lawrence After Arabia for Hampstead Theatre. He also wrote fourteen episodes of BBC spy drama Spooks.
Craig, Ryan: - Ryan Craig is a British playwright, screen, television and radio writer whose plays usually involve both ethical and social matters. He is best known for his plays What We Did To Weinstein (Menier Chocolate Factory, London, 2005) which earned him a Most Promising Playwright Nomination at the Evening Standard Awards; The Glass Room (Hampstead Theatre, 2006), which deals with Holocaust denial; the English version of Tadeusz Slobodzianek's Our Class (2009), The Holy Rosenbergs (2011), both at the National Theatre and the semi-autobiographical Filthy Business (2017, Hampstead Theatre, London).
Gregg, Stacey: -
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).
Banks, Anthony: - Anthony Banks is from Manchester and studied English at Kings College London before training as a director at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art. He was formerly Associate Director for the National Theatre Discover Programme, where he commissioned scripts for the Connections seasons, the Primary Theatre programme and Shakespeare Schools Festival, and curated a variety of projects and events for lifelong learning. He works as a freelance director and leads workshops on directing new plays. He also contributes to books and journals about theatre.
Cartwright, Jim: - Jim Cartwright is an award-winning and internationally acclaimed playwright and screenwriter. His plays are consistently in production, have been translated into over 35 languages, and have been performed in most major theatres of the world, including the West End of London, Royal Court, National Theatre and Broadway. His theatre works include, amongst many others, Road, Bed, Two, The Rise and Fall of Little Voice, and Mobile Phone Show. His extensive television and film work includes Road, Johnny Shakespeare, Vroom, Wedded, and King of the Teds.
Coxon, Lucinda: - 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.
Harvey, Jonathan: - Jonathan Harvey is an award-winning playwright, whose plays include The Cherry Blossom Tree (Liverpool Playhouse Studio), which won him the 1987 National Girobank Young Writer of the Year Award; Wildfire (Royal Court Theatre); Beautiful Thing (Bush Theatre, London and Donmar Warehouse/Duke of York's Theatre), winner of the John Whiting Award 1994; Babies (Royal National Theatre Studio/Royal Court Theatre), winner George Devine Award 1993 and Evening Standard's Most Promising Playwright Award 1994; Boom Bang-A-Bang (Bush Theatre); Rupert Street Lonely Hearts Club (English Touring Theatre/Contact Theatre Company, Donmar Warehouse/Criterion Theatre); Swan Song (Pleasance/Hampstead Theatre); Guiding Star (Liverpool Everyman/National Theatre); Hushabye Mountain (English Touring Theatre/Hampstead) and Out in the Open (Hampstead Theatre/Birmingham Rep). Television and film work includes: West End Girls (Carlton); Love Junkie (BBC); Beautiful Thing (Channel Four/Island World Productions); Gimme Gimme Gimme (BBC).
Kennedy, Jemma: - Jemma Kennedy is a playwright, novelist and screenwriter with extensive teaching experience at City Lit, the Arvon Foundation and various universities. She was Pearson Playwright at the National Theatre in 2010/11 and became part of the inaugural Soho 6 writing scheme with the Soho Theatre Company in 2012. She has two screenplays in development and her novel Skywalking was published by Penguin / Viking in 2002. Jemma has recently been involved as a writing mentor and judge for the National Theatre's inaugural New Views National Playwriting Competition for young writers. Her play Don't Feed The Animals has been commissioned for the National Theatre Connections 2013 and The Grand Irrationality will be produced at the Lost Theater, Los Angeles in early 2013.
Pearson, Morna: - Morna Pearson started her career at the Traverse Young Writers' Group. Her first play for the Traverse, Distracted, won the Meyer Whitworth prize. Her other plays include: Elf Analysis, The Company Will Overlook a Moment of Madness and Skin; or How To Disappear, along with a variety of work for BBC Radio. Morna has been commissioned by NT Connections 2013 and her play Ailie and the Alien will be staged as part of their 2013 season. Morna was given the inaugural Rod Hall Memorial Award in 2006. Her other plays include; McBeth's McPets (BBC Radio Scotland) and Side Effects (BBC Radio 3/Bona Broadcasting), One of her plays appeared in Scottish Shorts, published by Nick Hern in 2010.
Reiss, Anya: - Anya wrote her first play when she was 14 and then became a member of the Royal Court Theatre's Young Writers' Programme. Last year she was invited to take part in the Royal Court's Supergroup of young writers. Her debut play, Spur of the Moment (written when she was 17) opened to fantastic acclaim at the Royal Court Theatre in July 2010, winning her the award for Most Promising Playwright at both the Evening Standard and Critics Circle awards. It also won the TMA Theatre Award for Best New Play in 2010. Her sophomore play The Acid Test was staged at the Royal Court in 2011 to a sell-out run and great reviews. Anya will be contributing a piece to the Bush Theatre's 66 Books: A Contemporary Response to the King James Bible, which opens in October.