Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors

<i>Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors</i> is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups schools and amateur dramatic companies it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance.<br/>Varying in style and subject matter the plays offer performers directors and designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the mythological world of <i>The Odyssey</i> to a dramatisation of two hundred years of slavery that will take the audience on a journey from eighteenth century Africa to 1990s London in <i>Sweetpeter.</i><br/>Contemporary urban living is confronted in plays ranging from the starkly realistic to the playful lyrical and surrealistic. From the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground to issues of racism peer pressure crime and communication in a mobile phone obsessed culture this is a wide-ranging anthology that will enrich the repertoire of youth theatre groups and the curriculum in schools. <br/>The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby artistic director of the National Youth Theatre.