Plays for Young People Plays written specifically for young people to perform and study The Plays for Young People series includes single plays and anthologies aimed at young performers to discover and perform. Exploring themes and issues that young people face today, these plays offer variety and interest to suit everyone. Which one will your students choose?
NEW FOR 2022 AUG 2022
Beyond The Canon’s Plays for Young Activists Three Plays by BIPOC Women Mojisola Adebayo, Hannah Khalil and Amy Ng Edited by Simeilia Hodge-Dallaway This first-of-its-kind anthology combines a diverse collection of award-winning produced plays from the UK’s most revolutionary Black, Asian and POC female writers with bespoke multimedia learning guides hosted on a companion website.
Coming Soon
It offers young activists and global citizens aged 16+, as well as teachers and creatives at any level of experience, the opportunity to diversify their education and enhance their understanding of plays, world politics and social justice. PB | 9781350294998 | £21.99
Resources included on companion website:
Plays include: Muhamad Ali and Me by Mojisola Adebayo A Museum in Baghdad by Hannah Khalil
intimate interviews with the writers and some of the original creative teams photographs and video recordings detailing the plays’ research journey
Acceptance by Amy Ng
dynamic exercises that explore the language and characters in the plays
AGE 16+
NEW PLAYS TO EXPLORE JAN 2022
APR 2022
AGE 16+
AGE 6+
Three Plays for Young Performers
To The Good People of Gaza
Rory Mullarkey
Theatre for Young People by Jackie Lubeck and Theatre Day Productions
This collection of three plays for young performers from multi-award-winning playwright Rory Mullarkey offers astutely relevant and powerfully theatrical pieces of drama. Each play offers large and flexible casts for non-gender specific performers, that are perfect for performances and study by young performers aged 16-23. PB | 9781350293632 | £12.99
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Jackie Lubeck Edited by Samer Al-Saber The first anthology of youth plays from Gaza and the wider Palestinian region, this timely collection ties together 19 plays produced by Theatre Day Productions, one of the foremost community theatres in the Middle East. PB | 9781350261815 | £24.99
AGE 6+
Positive Stories for Negative Times, Volume Two Seven Plays For Young People to Perform in Real Life or Remotely Edited by Wonder Fools Seven exciting new plays for young people written specifically in response to a world in the midst of a pandemic, accompanied by a handbook from Wonder Fools with guidance for staging the plays.
AGE 16+
AGE 16+
Bones
The Ancestors
Tanika Gupta
Lakesha Arie-Angelo
A play based on Catherine Corless' discovery of baby bones and skeletons in the grounds of a mother and baby home in Tuam, County Galway, Ireland in 2014.
Co-commissioned by the National Youth Theatre and English Heritage, this sitespecific play gives a voice to the Black revolutionaries imprisoned at Portchester Castle in 1796.
PB | 9781350280632 | £10.99
PB | 9781350276086 | £24.99
bloomsbury.com/plays-for-young-people
PB | 9781350293670 | £10.99
