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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

Howard Brenton

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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).
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.
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).