Junkyard (NHB Modern Plays)

Junkyard (NHB Modern Plays)

by Jack Thorne
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date: 02/03/2017

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'Who'd want to join in building a fucking playground.'


It's 1979, rubbish is on the streets of Bristol, and it's tricky being Fiz. She's thirteen, she's got no money, her sister's pregnant and her mum thinks she's a waste of space...


Rick remembers what it's like to be a teenager. So he thinks it won't take much to get a bunch of kids to help him build a playground out of junk.


He's wrong. It takes everything he's got. But when it's finished, it's going to be something. It's going to be everything...


Jack Thorne's honest and witty Junkyard, with music by Stephen Warbeck, premiered in 2017 in a co-production between Headlong, Bristol Old Vic, Rose Theatre Kingston and Theatr Clwyd, and directed by Jeremy Herrin.


'A touching taleā€¦ an engagingly ramshackle musical' - The Times


'A joyful musical for school misfits... left me smiling throughout as it celebrates the right of children and young people to turn their individual lives into an adventure through physical and imaginative play' - Guardian


'A heartfelt new musical... energetic and fun... like Jacqueline Wilson meets Skins' - The Stage

ISBN:
9781780018652
9781780018652
Category:
Plays
Format:
Epub (Kobo), Epub (Adobe)
Publication Date:
02-03-2017
Language:
English
Publisher:
Nick Hern Books
Jack Thorne

Jack Thorne writes for theatre, film, television and radio. His theatre credits include Hope and Let The Right One In, both directed by John Tiffany, The Solid Life of Sugarwater for the Graeae Theatre Company, Bunny for the Edinburgh Fringe Festival, Stacy for the Trafalgar Studios, 2nd May 1997 and When You Cure Me for the Bush.

His adaptations include The Physicists for the Donmar Warehouse and Stuart: A Life Backwards for Hightide. On film his credits include War Book, A Long Way Down and The Scouting Book for Boys.

For television his credits include The Last Panthers, Don't Take My Baby, This Is England, The Fades, Glue and Cast-Offs and the upcoming National Treasure. In 2012 he won BAFTAs for best series (The Fades) and best serial (This Is England '88).

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