Migration Plays: Four Large Cast Ensemble Stories for Teenagers

ISBN-13: 9781350090415 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 136 str.

Satinder Chohan; Asif Khan; Sumerah Srivastav

Opis

A collection of short plays based on work between secondary school children and professional playwrights focusing on the journeys of immigrants to and from Europe.

Recenzje

An excellent resource for teachers. The four plays in themselves are short, zippy and dynamic, providing lots of flexibility for small and large cohorts of students to perform whilst exploring both microcosmic and macrocosmic issues related to the theme. In addition, the inclusion of the exercises employed by the directors and playwrights to devise the subject matter, is essential in making this book a compact resource for creating schemes of work around the topic of migration. Drama Magazine

Spis treści

Introduction by Fin Kennedy, TamashaForeword by Emily Miller of the Migration MuseumAuthor's note from Sharmila ChauhanNothing To Declare by Sharmila ChauhanAuthor's note by Satinder ChohanPotato Moon by Satinder ChohanAuthor's note from Asif KhanWilkommen by Asif KhanAuthor's note from Sumerah SrivastavJigsaw by Sumerah SrivastavExercises

O autorze

Satinder Chohan is a journalist and documentary researcher/associate producer turned playwright who won the Adopt A Playwright Award in 2013. Her play MADE IN INDIA (Tamasha, Belgrade and Pilot Theatre) directed by Katie Posner toured the UK in 2017 to great acclaim receiving an OffWestEnd award nomination and winning the award for Best Production at the Eastern Eye awards. Her plays ZAMEEN and KABADDIKABADDIKABADDI have toured the UK with Kalí and Pursued By A Bear respectively and 1984 was part of The Finborough's Vibrant Festival 2014. She won a Kalí Futures Writer Award, completed The Traverse Theatre's Emerging Writers' Residency, was on attachment at the Hampstead Theatre and took part in the Kudos-Court scheme at the Royal Court in 2016. She is currently under commission to co-adapt GULLIVER'S TRAVELS with Mike Kenny for the Bolton Octagon Asif Khan is an actor and playwright educated at University of Bradford and trained at RADA. His theatre includes A Passage to India (Park Theatre); The Hypocrite (RSC); Snookered (Tamasha, Bush Theatre). His screen credits include Diana & I (BBC2); Spooks; The Dumping Ground and Love Type D. His writing credits include Combustion, Tight Bastards, The Lady, Dirty Bradford and Young Muslim Voices. Sumerah Srivastav is a playwright, librettist and screenwriter with a background in TV, film and radio production.She is a regular writer on EastEnders and has been identified as a rising star in the BBC's 2017 New Talent Hotlist. She is currently one of fifteen writers selected for a year-long MediaXchange/Creative Skillset Programme on Advanced Writing for TV drama under which she is developing an original television series.As a playwright she has been a member of the Royal Court's Critical Mass and invited Studio Writers' programmes, Orange Tree Writers Collective, Criterion playwright programme and as a librettist twice taken part in the Stratford East's Musical Theatre Initiative.Sumerah is a full member of Mercury Musical Developments, the Royal Television Society and the Writers Guild.Sumerah is a playwright and screenwriter.As a playwright she has been a member of the Royal Court's Critical Mass andinvited Studio Writers' programmes, Stratford East's Musical Theatre Initiative,Orange Tree Writers Collective and The Criterion playwright programme. Her plays include Jigsaw, Veiled & Vinegar, The Fairy King, Space Invaders, Downfall and Border Lies. Her work has been performed at Soho, Tristan Bates,Redbridge Drama Centre, Contact, Orange Tree, The Pleasance, The Barbicanand The Criterion. She is currently developing a period play with support fromthe Criterion Theatre Trust and Worthing Theatres. For the screen she has written for EastEnders and her short film Origami starring Nicholas Pinnock and Pearl Mackie, is currently in post-production. In 2017 she was identified as a rising star in the BBC's New Talent Hotlist. This year she is as a BAFTA Crew participant and has been selected to take part in Vertical Lab, a mentoring programme by the Independent Film Trust. While completing her novel, Sharmila Chauchan began writing a play and was lucky to be part of Kali's writer development program whilst pregnant. The birth of her son coincided with selection for the Royal Court's writing programme and she has also been selected for Tamasha's TDA course. Her play Born Again/Purnajanam was performed at Southwark Playhouse. A reading of When Spring Comes was performed in association with the South Asian Lit Fest. Her play White Turns to Grey is being developed with Angelic Tales (Rikki Beadle Blair and John Gordon). The Husbands - a tale of polyandry and feminism - has been commissioned by Kali and Pentabus Theatre for tour in 2014. Fin Kennedy, an award-winning UK playwright, is a graduate of the MA Writing for Performance programme at Goldsmiths College, London. He writes for adults and teenagers and his plays are regularly produced in the UK and around the world. He is also an acclaimed teacher of playwriting and community arts project manager, with a particular focus on young people's projects in London's East End. His second play How To Disappear Completely & Never Be Found won the 38th Arts Council John Whiting Playwrighting Award. It was subsequently commissioned by Sam West for Sheffield Crucible and produced to critical acclaim in 2007. It has since been produced in London, Los Angeles, Chicago, Washington, Melbourne, Auckland, and Portland, Oregon.