POSITIVE STORIES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE

POSITIVE STORIES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE

Price: £32.00

Take home all three Positive Stories for Negative Times Anthologies including a total of 16 plays and a handbook offering a variety of stories, styles and forms for ages 6-25.

Volume One:

1. Is This A Fairytale? by Bea Webster

A new play that rips apart the traditional fairy tale canon and turns it on its head in a surprising, inventive and unconventional way. Ages 8+

2. Hold Out Your Hand by Chris Thorpe

A dynamic text asking questions about place, where we are now and the moment we are living through. Ages 13+

3. The Pack by Stef Smith

A playful and poetic exploration about getting lost in the loneliness of your living room and trying to find your way home. Ages 13+

4. Ozymandias by Robbie Gordon and Jack Nurse

A contemporary story inspired by Percy Shelley’s 19th century poem of the same name, exploring power, oppression and injustice through the eyes of young people. Ages 16+

5. Bad Bored Women of the Rooms by Sabrina Mahfouz

A storytelling adventure through the centuries of women and girls who have spent a lot of time stuck in a room. Ages 18+

Volume Two:

1. Spyrates 2 (Spies vs Pirates): Journey to the Forbidden Island by Robbie Gordon & Jack Nurse

Featuring spies, pirates, robots, talking animals and everything in between, ‘Spyrates’ is an interactive, playful and imaginative adventure story with an accompanying process drama.

2. At First I Was Afraid…(I Was Petrified!) by Douglas Maxwell

A feel-good comedy drama about a girl who keeps a diary of all her anxieties; but as she moves from Primary School to Secondary, from normal life to Lockdown, all of her worries appear to come true.

3. The Raven by Hannah Lavery

A play full of adventure and an exploration of what shapes and what divides us, exploring issues of blended families, bullying, overeating, depression and isolation.

4. Thanks for Nothing by The PappyShow with Lewis Hetherington

This is not a play, but a process. It explores what it means to be thankful in this world we live in today. It’s a mix of games, challenges and exercises for you to tell your own stories, in your own way.

5. Revolting by Bryony Kimmings

A series of tasks and actions that make a narrative to be performed with props. We are agents of the revolution. How do we revolt? How do we not get into trouble? Where do we get power, and then how do we use it for good?

6. The Skirt by Ellen Bannerman

An absurdist feminist fable for the next generation of feminists. Based on Gogol’s short story: ‘The Nose.’

7. Write to Rave: Step Pon by Debris Stevenson

A play about the political power of a rave. Who has the right to rave, to dance and move freely? What is it to feel truly free in your own skin? It tells the story a queer group of humans trying their best to rave whilst the world tries its best to stop them.

Volume Three:

1. THE DAY THE STAMPERS UNITED by Sara Shaarawi (12+)

A play set in a warehouse. This is a tale of how collective action begins with solidarity within the community.

2. MS CAMPBELL’S CLASS FIFTH PERIOD by Leyla Josephine (14+)

A group of school students in the bottom set maths class lock their teacher in a cupboard. They all have various motivations that are gradually revealed and are faced with the question: what do they do now?

3. AND THE NAME FOR THAT IS…? by Robert Softley Gale (16+)

Meeting a date for a coffee is a whole lot of fun when you know even less about yourself than you do about your date! Prepare for ridiculous disability hi-jinx and a good measure of self-discovery.

4. ARE YOU A ROBOT? by Tim Crouch (10+)

Two groups of children meet. They look the same; they imagine similar things; they make almost the same noises; they dance in almost the same way. But one group is a digital version of the other; they are the face we see reflected back to us online; they’re exciting and demanding and hard to live up to.

POSITIVE STORIES FOR NEGATIVE TIMES ANTHOLOGY BUNDLE