When This Is Over (Paperback)

Ned Glasier

ISBN 10: 1839042575 / ISBN 13: 9781839042577

Published by Nick Hern Books, London, 2023

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Paperback. A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together onstage to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead.When This Is Over is a uniquely personal, theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination. It's about how we can work with chaos, and embrace our collective imagination as we prepare for a deeply uncertain future together.Originally conceived by Company Three and developed alongside more than fifty other youth theatres across the UK When This Is Over is a play designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. As with Company Three's widely performed youth-theatre play Brainstorm, the script is a blueprint for an amazing theatrical adventure.This published edition contains a series of exercises and activities for schools, youth-theatre groups and community companies to create and perform their own unique productions, and also features the complete script of Company Three's version, which was performed at The Yard, London, in 2022.When This Is Over was named Community Project of the Year at The Stage Awards, and Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.Community Project of the Year, The Stage AwardsOutstanding Drama Initiative, Music and Drama Education Awards A theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination, designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. Winner, Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: When This Is Over (Paperback)
• Publisher: Nick Hern Books, London
• Publication Date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1839042575
• ISBN 13: 9781839042577
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A group of teenagers, their lives shaped by billions of seemingly random events going back to before they were born, come together onstage to share stories about their past, their present, and what might lie ahead.

When This Is Over is a uniquely personal, theatrical celebration of hope, possibility and imagination. It’s about how we can work with chaos, and embrace our collective imagination as we prepare for a deeply uncertain future – together.

Originally conceived by Company Three – and developed alongside more than fifty other youth theatres across the UK – When This Is Over is a play designed to be created and performed by teenage casts, drawing directly on their own life experiences and the stories they want to tell. As with Company Three’s widely performed youth-theatre play Brainstorm, the script is a blueprint for an amazing theatrical adventure.

This published edition contains a series of exercises and activities for schools, youth-theatre groups and community companies to create and perform their own unique productions, and also features the complete script of Company Three’s version, which was performed at The Yard, London, in 2022.

When This Is Over was named Community Project of the Year at The Stage Awards, and Outstanding Drama Initiative at the Music and Drama Education Awards.

About the Author

Ned Glasier is Artistic Director of Company Three, a London-based theatre company working with young people.

As a writer/director he has made more than 40 plays with young people, including Brainstorm at the National Theatre/BBC iPlayer, The Future at the Yard Theatre, Boat at Battersea Arts Centre and When This Is Over. He has directed other plays and projects for the Young Vic Theatre, Royal Court Theatre, Almeida Theatre, Creative Scotland, Southwark Playhouse and Theatre for a Change (Ghana). During the pandemic he led The Coronavirus Time Capsule, a major international project involving more than 3,000 young people in 17 different countries around the world.

Alongside his work making plays with young people, Ned leads training in the practice of co-creation, teaches on University courses and works as a consultant helping organisations like English National Opera, Platform Glasgow, Stockroom, Brighton People's Theatre and Plymouth Theatre Royal develop their vision and mission and participation strategies. He was the ArtWorks Fellow at the Barbican Centre (2013-15) and part of Civic Futures (2019-20).

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Company Three is a theatre company that aims to create a space in which young people can speak to adults, and in which adults will really listen. Originally formed as Islington Community Theatre in 2008, the company works with an ensemble of young people aged 11–19, all referred or nominated by teachers and youth workers as those most likely to benefit from the company's work. Its plays are part of an ongoing exploration about what it means to be a teenager, created through long-term collaboration between the company's members and professional theatremakers. The company also runs regular training courses in devising theatre with young people for teachers, directors, playwrights and practitioners.