Skunk (Multiplay Drama)
By Zawe Ashton
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Otto's parents have big plans for him. His mum thinks he's 'Cambridge material'. His dad wants him to play for Arsenal. It's a lot of pressure, but Otto has it under control.
Until one morning, when Otto wakes up feeling pretty peculiar... discovering, unexpectedly, he's been transformed into a skunk.
Inspired by Kafka's novella The Metamorphosis, Skunk was first performed at Soho Theatre, produced by the National Youth Theatre.
Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.
Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton is a writer, director and actor. Her writing and directing credits include short films Lighthouse, The Place We Go to Hide and Happy Toys, as well as a short documentary on the artist Lorraine O’Grady that formed part of the Soul of A Nation: Art in the Age of Black Power exhibition at Tate Modern. Writing credits include winning the Farrago UK Poetry Slam! in 2000, Dream Factor (National Youth Theatre schools’ tour), Have a Butchers, Sweetness and Light (DryWrite), Edible Flowers (DryWrite at Latitude Festival), Girls Aloud (Clean Break Theatre). Zawe’s first play Harm’s Way was shortlisted for the Verity Bargate Award in 2007. Harms Way premiered in 2008 as part of the National Youth Theatre’s new writing season at The Lowry Theatre, Salford Quays, directed by Tessa Walker. Her latest play For All the Women Who Thought They Were Mad will be staged in 2019. Zawe is also a novelist and her debut novel Character Breakdown was published by Chatto and Windus in April 2019.
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Skunk (Multiplay Drama) - Zawe Ashton
Zawe Ashton
SKUNK
NICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Introducing Multiplay Drama
Original Production
Characters
Skunk
About the Author
Copyright and Performing Rights Information
Introducing Multiplay Drama
John O’Donovan
Every year, a great number of original plays are commissioned and performed by drama schools, educational institutions, and youth, student and amateur-theatre companies. Reading them, talking to their writers, seeing them in production, we are always struck by the complexity of their themes, the invention of their storytelling and the calibre of their playwrights.
Some of these plays are revived in professional productions – for instance, Growth by Luke Norris was first seen at the Royal Welsh College before being revised and produced on tour by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, and winning a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh – but most haven’t yet had a further life. It seems like the very raison d’être of many of these plays – the creation of large-scale complex pieces for young, large casts – has meant theatre companies, hamstrung by ever-shrinking budgets, haven’t been able to find a way to give the plays the continuing existence that they deserve.
That’s why Nick Hern Books has created Multiplay Drama – a new series aiming to bring back to the fore some of the best plays for large casts we’ve read. Offering ten high-quality plays that originated with various drama schools and youth-theatre companies, it provides a selection of ambitious, complex, dramatic and theatrical plays with one common factor: large casts of rich, exciting characters for teenagers and young adults to perform.
No one-person shows. No knotty two-handers. No triptychs. These are plays with big ideas and need big companies to put them across. From the relatively modest seven-hander Blue to the 75+ speaking characters in katzenmusik, these plays offer multiple perspectives and clamorous takes on some of the most important issues of today.
In making these plays available to read and perform, we’re hoping to see a legion of other drama schools, youth theatres, student-drama societies, sixth-form colleges and amateur-theatre companies gaining ready access to the kinds of plays that interrogate both theatrical storytelling form as vigorously as they question the world we live in today. In every play in this first ‘season’ of the initiative, actors will find roles that are fleshed out and demand self-reflection, that justify their time on the stage and find their place within a larger set of characters.
If your performance group is looking for a play that builds a post-apocalyptic world and focuses on a large group of identifiable characters navigating through a dystopian vision of Britain – we have the play for you; if you prefer a play where a Chorus comes and narrates across time zones and locations,