Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers by Evan Placey

Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers by Evan Placey

Four urgent and explosive plays by award-winning playwright Evan Placey, each tackling issues facing young people today.

'Evan Placey treats his themes with a raw honesty and no attempt to censor the less savoury aspects of them… an interesting collection of plays that will challenge both teenagers and adults'

* Word Matters (Journal of the Society of Teachers of Speech & Drama) *

'Four of [Evan Placey's] best plays assembled in a single volumeYouth theatres, schools, drama schools and the like will find plenty of gritty material to work on here'

* The Stage *

'This collection of plays for teenagers is a must... The subject material is often challenging but absolutely vital and handled with the right mixture of sensitivity and courage. Sexuality, family and friends lie at the heart of the four plays contained here and all are highly accesible and would work with a range of acting styles and cast sizes. Placey's characters are totally believable and the dialogue crackles with wit and insight'

* Teaching Drama *

Evan Placey is a Canadian-British playwright who grew up in Toronto and now lives in London, England. His plays include Girls Like That (commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse); Mother of Him (Courtyard Theatre; winner of the King’s Cross Award for New Writing, RBC National Playwriting Competition, Canada, and the Samuel French Canadian Play Contest); Banana Boys (Hampstead Theatre); Suicide(s) in Vegas (Canadian tour; Centaur Theatre Award nomination); Scarberia (Forward Theatre Project/York Theatre Royal); How Was It For You? (Unicorn Theatre); Holloway Jones (Synergy Theatre Project/schools tour/Unicorn Theatre; winner of the Brian Way Award 2012 for Best Play for Young People; Writers’ Guild Award nomination) and Pronoun (National Theatre Connections). Work for radio includes Mother of Him (BBC Radio 3/Little Brother Productions). Evan is a Creative Fellow and Lecturer at the University of Southampton, and also teaches playwriting to young people for various theatres, and also in prisons.

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781848425156
ISBN 10	1848425155
Title	Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers
Author	Evan Placey
Series	Nhb Modern Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2016-05-26
Number of pages	320
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.