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Girls Like That
Author(s): Evan Placey (Author)
- Publisher: Nick Hern Books
- Publication Date: 11 July 2013
- Language: English
- Print length: 80 pages
- ISBN-10: 1848423535
- ISBN-13: 9781848423534
Book Description
“Sket, skank, slapper, you deserve everything coming to you”
What would you do if a naked photograph of you went viral and you couldn’t stop it, rumours went wild and everyone formed an opinion?
In Girls Like That, Scarlett becomes the centre of attention but for all the wrong reasons and she chooses to stay silent.
Award winning Evan Placey’s thrilling and dynamic new time-shifting production, written for and performed by young people, explores the pressures on teenagers today in the wake of advancing technology.
With roles for up to twenty-four young female actors (though it can also be performed by smaller and mixed casts), the play is perfect for any schools, youth theatres or drama groups looking to tackle a contemporary subject in a theatrically exciting way.
Evan Placey’s acclaimed BT Connections play Pronoun is also published in a single edition by Nick Hern Books.
Editorial Reviews
Review
Placey’s eye-opening, often uncomfortably honest play… deserves to be widely seen by teenage audiences. And by their parents too –Guardian
As technically adroit and inflamed a piece as I’ve seen all year, funny and shockingly frank, and its target audience of school-age teenagers is treated to something of obvious direct application to their own lives as well as a 75-minute slice of first class theatre. –Michael Coveney whatsonstage.com
A well-written, immaculately crafted and brave piece of energetic theatre (that tackles) strong, relevant issues. –ayoungertheatre.com
Shades of a technologically sophisticated Lord of the Flies… seriously impressive. –Yorkshire Post
