Ideal for young performers aged 11-25 years old; drama teachers; youth theatres; drama schools; annual festivals including the National Student Drama Festival, and secondary schools. The Arts Council will promote the anthology to all their regularly funded organisations. A range of plays written in contrasting styles and covering a wide variety of issues and subjects makes it a rich resource for GCSE and A level Drama students and youth drama groups. Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors offers a fantastic range of new writing in one value-for-money edition Introduced and endorsed by the artistic director of the National Youth Theatre.

Six Ensemble Plays for Young Actors is an anthology of work written for actors aged 11-25. Ideal for youth theatre groups, schools and amateur dramatic companies, it contains a diverse selection of plays suited to large casts and ensemble performance. Varying in style and subject matter, the plays offer performers, directors and designers a range of exciting challenges: from recreating the mythological world of The Odyssey to a dramatisation of two hundred years of slavery that will take the audience on a journey from eighteenth century Africa to 1990s London in Sweetpeter. Contemporary urban living is confronted in plays ranging from the starkly realistic to the playful, lyrical and surrealistic. From the innocent and imaginative world of a school playground to issues of racism, peer pressure, crime and communication in a mobile phone obsessed culture, this is a wide-ranging anthology that will enrich the repertoire of youth theatre groups and the curriculum in schools. The volume is introduced by Paul Roseby, artistic director of the National Youth Theatre.