Plays for Young People [Who’s Breaking + Listen + Sleeping Dogs + Wiseguys]

Title: Plays for Young People [Who's Breaking + Listen + Sleeping Dogs + Wiseguys]
Author: Osment, Philip
Price: $28.95

Plays: Who's Breaking, Listen Sleeping Dogs, Wiseguys

Osment has written and directed plays for two of the country's most prominent young people's theatres.

The four plays in this volume were written for teenage audiences and deal with issues of gender, AIDS, disability, relationships with parents, ethnic strife, crime, drugs and bullying. In Whos Breaking? a young a man, leaning that he is HIV-positive, is forced to think his life and attitudes. At the heart of Listen is the fractured relationship between a deaf teenager and his uncomprehending father. Sleeping Dogs concerns the love affair between a Muslim boy and a Christian girl during the war in the former Yugoslavia. Through its three troubled protagonists, Wise Guys poses the central question addressed by all these plays: can young people caught up in the self-destructive cycles break free of them?
Philip Osments plays include The Undertaking, Buried Alive, Little Violet and the Angle, Palace of Fear , Telling Tales, This Islands Mine, The Dearly Beloved, What I did in My Holidays and Flesh and Blood. Oberon also publishes his version of Cervantes play Pedro the Great Pretender.
Taunt, non-preachy... Work this beautiful deserves a larger audience The Scotsman (on Wise Guys)
It pulls few punches, but theres no lack of sensitivity either. It is moving and, amazingly, funny. Manchester Evening News (on Whos Breaking)
Although not well known (yet) in Australia, Osment is a leading playwright in the UK who has written many excellent plays for young people.

Publisher: Oberon Books Ltd
Publication date: 01/04/2006
Format: Paperback
ISBN: 9781840022728
Publishing status: AU In-stock Distributor