Big House Anthology: Diverse Plays for Diverse Casts

<p><i>The Big House Anthology</i> is a celebration of the last decade of work and plays by a unique theatre company featuring five original plays that offer a chance for stories with diverse casts to contribute to the canon of theatre's literature. <p/>As a UK-based theatre company The Big House empowers care leavers and other disadvantaged young people through performance and long-term support. Their plays are born from the hearts and minds of the young people they engage with this anthology offering five very different plays: a runner struck down by MS; a rapper who spits and snarls and tries to find it in herself to forgive; a teenager who fights for wealth status and respect in the underworld of county lines; a cackling cowboy they call Corona; and a dog that has been tracked murdered and stuck in a stew. This anthology celebrates the explosive creativity that comes from mobilising and platforming diverse voices and its importance in generating social change. <p/>Framed and introduced by directors and writers discussing their practice along with an introduction by Jez Butterworth this is a book for students educators artists theatre-practitioners social workers and storytellers to tell stories that are rarely told let alone with such fierce authenticity.</p>