Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors

Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors 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

Varying in style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and designers a range of exciting challenges

Recreating the mythological world of The Odyssey 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 Sweetpeter

Where 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

The Plays in this volume are ...

East End Tales by Fin Kennedy

The Odyssey by Hattie Naylor

The Playground by Kay Adshead

Stuff I Buried in a Small Town by Mike Bartlett

Sweetpeter by John Retallack & Usifu Jalloh

Wan2tlk? by Kevin Fegan

The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, artistic director of the National Youth Theatre