Title: Monsters
Written / Devised By: Eleanor Morrison
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Length: 75 minutes
First performed & at which venue: March 2008, Regal Theatre, Bathgate Cast Breakdown: 7 boys and 8 girls (although some flexibility). All play approx. 16 years except for one younger character. Three parts very simple (written for young people with learning difficulties). Synopsis: Monsters is set in Craigshill in 2022, in the kind of future that we hope will never happen in Scotland, but which is reality for far too many children and young people all over the world. Stephen's gang have been hiding out in a disused hall while, up in the Bathgate Hills a civil war rages between the Monster's Militia and the British Government Army. The war has been fought over the past four years but Stephen and his gang don't really know anything about why or how it started. Then Roxy finds them with her gang of escaped child soldiers. Roxy (16) has been fighting since she was twelve years old and has finally found her chance to escape. She can't afford to let Stephen and his gang of innocents get in her way. But the fighting is getting closer and the Monster Army want their soldiers back!