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Language: English
Published by Methuen Drama, 2006
- Softcover
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- Title
- Making Scenes 3: Indian Summer; Almost Grown; The Ice Palace; The Dark Tower (Play Anthologies)
- Author
- Bains, Harwant S.; Cameron, Richard; MacNeice, Louis; Coxon, Lucinda
- Publisher
- Methuen Drama
- Publication year
- 2006
- Condition
- New
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0413698602
- ISBN 13
- 9780413698605
- Item weight
- 431 grams
Four short plays for young actors
Making Scenes 3 is an exciting selection of plays commissioned by the Royal National Theatre for the BT National Connections festival for young actors in 1995.
Indian Summer by Harwant Bains; Kulwant returns to India and becomes fascinated with an ice-cream seller and the Holy Man who has sat for years with a sword through his mouth. When Kulwant pulls out the sword and offers the man a tutti-frutti ice-cream, a remarkable friendship is established.
Almost Grown by Richard Cameron; set in Yorkshire this is the story of how a tragic accident has affected the lives of three friends.
The Ice Palace by Lucinda Coxon; in this magical rites of passage tale Siss and Unn are best friends at school, but when Siss goes to visit her one day they set out on an adventure into a magnificent frozen waterfall from which Unn will never return.
The Dark Tower by Louis MacNeice; Roland must follow his ancestors' and brothers' footsteps on a journey through time, by ship across the sea of doubt, past ghost towns of history and through 'deserts of dried-up hopes', until he reaches the Dark Tower.Each play includes Production Notes, dealing with setting and staging, costume, lighting and casting. Also included are a set of questions and exercises for workshop classes.
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About the Author
Lucinda Coxon was born in Derby. Her plays and films include Mornings After (1985), And One Another (1988); Bird Bones (1989); Improbabilities (a group of short plays for Loose Exchange Company, 1989); Eddie's Proposal (BBC studio screenplay, 1990); Waiting at the Water's Edge (1992); Spaghetti Slow (1993); Lily and the Secret Planting (screenplay, 1994); and Wishbones (1995). Her adaptation of Tarjei Vesaas's Norwegian novel Is-Slottet was published by Methuen Drama in 1995 in Making Scenes 3: four short plays for young actors.
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