Description: A collection of ten new plays for young people specially commissioned by the National Theatre for the New Connections Festival 2012 which will involve 200 schools and youth theatre groups in the UK and Ireland. Each play is accompanied by production notes and exercises.
Brief description:
Plays include Wolf Lullaby, Fortune, The Falls, The Anatomy Lesson of Doctor Ruysch, Memmie Le Blanc, The Bloody Bride, The Mysteries: Genesis, The Splinter, The White Divers of Broome and adaptations of The Seagull, The Hypochondriac and of the film The Red Balloon. She also writes for opera, song cycles and musical theatre.
Hilary is the co-creator of bestselling children's books 'Alphabetical Sydney', 'Numerical Street' and 'The Marvellous Funambulist of Middle Harbour'. She is a member of playwrights' company 7-On and a graduate of the Juilliard Playwrights' Studio, the National Institute of Dramatic Art and the Australian Film, Television and Radio School. She was the Tennessee Williams Fellow 2003-04, and the 2012 Patrick White Playwrights' Fellow at the Sydney Theatre Company.Review Quotes:
"The 2012 volume features plays from around the world, with varied styles of dialogue (rhetorical, verse, musical, naturalistic, and heightened-realism), multiple issues, and for casts both large and small . . . The collection is strong . . . They cater for many ethnicities and group sizes; each play runs under an hour; and they have very few technical requirements, making them very suitable material for youth theatres everywhere." --Peter Hussey, Youth Drama Ireland
"The anthologies are brilliant resources." --Rhianna Elsden, Teaching Drama