Brainstorm: The Original Playscript (eBook)

And a Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production

Ned Glasier, Emily Lim, Company Three (Autoren)

eBook Download: EPUB

2016
96 Seiten
Nick Hern Books (Verlag)
9781780018027 (ISBN)

Infos

Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us. Brainstorm is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers' brains work, and why they're designed by evolution to be the way they are. Created by Ned Glasier and Emily Lim with Company Three (formerly Islington Community Theatre), in collaboration with neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr Kate Mills, the play is designed to be created and performed by a company of teenagers, drawing directly on their personal experiences. This edition contains a series of exercises, resources and activities to help schools, youth-theatre groups and young companies create and perform their own Brainstorm. It also features the complete script of the original production which played at Park Theatre and the National Theatre, London, in 2015.

Ned Glasier is one of the UK's leading theatre practitioners dedicated to working with young people. He founded Company Three, a London-based theatre company working with young people, and was the company's Artistic Director until 2024. At Company Three he created more than forty plays with young people, including Brainstorm at the Park Theatre, National Theatre and BBC iPlayer, Boat at Battersea Arts Centre and two major international projects during the COVID pandemic: The Coronavirus Time Capsule and When This Is Over. Alongside his work making plays with young people, Ned leads training in the practice of co-creation, teaches on university courses, and works as a consultant supporting organisations to listen to, support and enable young people. Author photograph by Camilla Greenwell

Autor

Ned Glasier is Artistic Director of Company Three, a London-based theatre company working with young people. Emily Lim is a theatre director who specialises in creating community work and working with non-professional performers. Company Three is a theatre company that aims to create a space in which young people can speak to adults, and in which adults will really listen. Originally formed as Islington Community Theatre in 2008, the company works with an ensemble of young people aged 11–19, all referred or nominated by teachers and youth workers as those most likely to benefit from the company's work. Its plays are part of an ongoing exploration about what it means to be a teenager, created through long-term collaboration between the company's members and professional theatremakers. The company also runs regular training courses in devising theatre with young people for teachers, directors, playwrights and practitioners.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 15.12.2016
• Reihe/Serie: NHB Modern Plays
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
• Schlagworte: Activities • Adolescent • Amateur Theatre • community theatre • company three • Drama • drama group • Exercises • Islington • modern drama • modern plays • National Theatre • Neuroscience • neuroscientists • Park Theatre • plays for young people • resources • school • Teenage • Teenagers • Theatre • theatre,modern drama,modern plays,drama,islington,community theatre,amateur theatre,plays for young people,adolescent,teenage,teenagers,company three,neuroscientists,neuroscience,exercises,resources,activities,youth theatre,school,drama group,young companies,park theatre,national theatre • young companies • Youth Theatre
• ISBN-13: 9781780018027 / 9781780018027