Missing Dan Nolan: New edition with bonus features - Softcover

Wheeller, Mark

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1913630285 ISBN 13: 9781913630287

Verlag: Salamander Street Ltd., 2020

Inhaltsangabe

A teenager disappears after a night out with friends. The people who knew him tell the story in their own words.

Mark Wheeller’s acclaimed verbatim play is an OCR GCSE Drama set text and a powerful choice for GCSE, BTEC and A-Level study, school performance and ensemble work.

• OCR GCSE Drama set text – widely studied by secondary school Drama students
• Authentic verbatim theatre – created entirely from the words of Dan’s family, friends and community
• Flexible ensemble casting – perform with a large cast of up to 18, or with four performers using doubling
• Ideal for classroom study – explore documentary theatre, social realism, ethics, responsibility and storytelling
• Based on a true story – a compelling way to examine how real events can be transformed for the stage
• Suitable for young performers – particularly useful for Key Stage 3/4, GCSE, BTEC and A-Level Drama
• Revised edition – includes additional material about the original production and creative process

Fourteen-year-old Dan Nolan went missing on 1 January 2002 after a night out fishing with his friends.

In Missing Dan Nolan, playwright Mark Wheeller pieces together the events surrounding Dan’s disappearance using the real words of the people closest to him. The result is a powerful multi-voiced drama that captures the shock, uncertainty and grief experienced by a family and community searching for answers.

Through testimony from friends, family and others involved, the play explores personal safety, responsibility, friendship and the importance of looking out for one another. It also provides students with an accessible and compelling introduction to verbatim and documentary theatre, raising valuable questions about the ethics and responsibilities involved in putting real lives on stage.

With its authentic dialogue, flexible casting and strong ensemble opportunities, Missing Dan Nolan is widely suited to classroom study, examination work, youth theatre and school performance.

This revised 2020 edition includes a new foreword by Mark Wheeller reflecting on the original production, a new interview with the original cast and a note on the original lighting design by Danny Sturrock.

Suitable for: Key Stage 3/4, GCSE, BTEC, A-Level and adult performers
Duration: approximately 60 minutes
Cast: up to 18 performers, or 2 female and 2 male performers with doubling

 

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Mark Wheeller began writing whilst a student at Marlwood Comprehensive School, Bristol.

After teaching drama for thirty-six years he retired in July 2015 to concentrate on writing and delivering Drama/Theatre workshops to students and teachers across the world.

Mark is one of the most-performed playwrights in Britain. Too Much Punch For Judy has been performed over 6,000 times and Chicken nearly 6,000. Missing Dan Nolan and Hard to Swallow are both set texts for the GSCE Drama 9-1 exams. His work has been a staple part of the Drama curriculum both in the UK and abroad for the past three decades.

Professional productions of Hard to Swallow, I Love You Mum, I Promise I Won’t Die and Chicken regularly tour schools and many of Mark’s works are available on DVD, with digital formats forthcoming in late 2020. 

His study guides include Drama Schemes, The Story Behind Too Much Punch For Judy, Drama Club & Hard to Swallow – Easy to Digest.

He has three children and lives just outside the New Forest, with his wife Rachael, and Labrador, Dusty.

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Salamander Street Ltd.
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2020
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1913630285
• ISBN 13: 9781913630287
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 80
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: preigu GmbH & Co. KG; mail@preigu.de; ; Lengericher Landstr. 19; Osnabrück; Niedersachsen; 49078; Deutschland