All Talk: Monologues for Young People

A series of short, single voice plays by writers based in the Northwest of England developed with M6 Theatre Company. These powerful, contemporary monologues share the struggles, courage, conflicts and joys of different teenage characters facing difficult decisions in their lives. Developed through consultation with young people, they offer a range of authentic, memorable voices to stimulate discussion and participatory drama work. Includes teacher's notes and questions about each monologue play to stimulate discussion. FIRST DATE by Anne-Marie O'Connor GETTING IT RIGHT by Peter Spafford RESULTS DAY by Aelish Michael CLOSE TO HOME by Mary Cooper WEIGHED DOWN by Carla Monvid-Jenkinson and Mary Cooper GIGGY'S LEGS by Michael Harvey Perfect to perform in schools, colleges and youth theatres.

Author: M6 Theatre Company, O'Connor Anne-Marie, Peter Spafford
Publisher: Aurora Metro Books
Published: 12/01/2007
Pages: 96
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.19lbs
Size: 7.85h x 5.51w x 0.21d
ISBN: 9780955156656

About the Author
O'Connor Anne-Marie: - Anne-Marie O'Connor writes for TV and Radio as well as having written two Irish best-selling novels; Everyone's Got a Bono Story and My Made Up Life. Her radio play, Out of Season was broadcast on Radio 4 in 2006 and she has written for the second series of BBC1's Waterloo Road. She has co-written a film for BBC America and UK Broadcast entitled Hash Granny and is working on a variety of projects both within the comedy and drama genres including a pilot comedy in conjunction with screen-writer Paul Abbott entitled Stage Fright. First Date was written as a monologue and commissioned by M6 Theatre Company through a competition looking for new writers in the North West in 2001. It was her first writing commission and was based on the Machiavellian ways of the main girl bully at her school in Bradford.Spafford, Peter: - Peter Spafford's first commissions were large-scale community plays, two of them for the Shaw Theatre, London. Since then he has written plays for touring companies, including an adaptation of Silas Marner for Theatre Company Blah, Blah, Blah and Change Of Mind, a play about Alzheimer's Disease which was toured internationally by Mind The Gap. He has written plays for radio, including the verse play Soft Stones, and the trilogy The Wrong Side Of The River with Mary Cooper. Peter has also written for musical theatre and opera including, most recently, two operas for Ryedale Festival, Maggio's Magic and A Pig's Tale. Much of his work takes place in community settings, such as schools, hospitals and prisons. The monologue Getting It Right grew out of a two year residency with 'Father Figures' in Sheffield, an agency supporting lone fathers. He is currently writer-in-residence at The Royal Armouries in LeedsMichael, Aelish: - Aelish Michael has been a playwright since completing her postgraduate diploma in writing for performance at Arden School of Theatre three years ago. As well as plays for young people, including Gemima Diamond for M6 Youth Theatre, she has written a number of plays for adults. Flying Solo won a one-act play competition run by the Ashton group in Barrow-In-Furness last year and her full length play, Children of the Moors, will be touring in the North West in Autumn 2007. Results Day was written to highlight the huge responsibilities that some young people have to bear, and also as a result of talking to a group of young carers. Aelish is currently working on a stage play that explores the issues of stolen identity and has a number of radio plays in development, including one based on the boyhood of the late poet laureate, Ted Hughes.
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