As We Face the Sun (NHB Modern Plays)
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A group of classmates, determined to remember their lost friend, commit to throwing an annual party in her honour. It's what she would have wanted. And year after year, they stick to the tradition.
Now they're in their twenties, and another party is about to start. The cake has arrived safely, the buffet is all set, and the aux cable is finally working – but something just doesn't feel right…
Kit Withington's play As We Face the Sun was first performed at the Bush Theatre, London, in a production by the Bush Young Company.
The Nick Hern Books Multiplay Drama series features large-cast plays specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.
Kit Withington
Kit Withington is a playwright from Manchester. Her debut play The View From Down Here was on at Ovalhouse in 2015. Kit was a member of the Soho Theatre Writers’ Lab in 2018 and her play Scrap was shortlisted for the Tony Craze Award. Kit has been part of the Emerging Writers’ Group at the Bush Theatre as well as being part of both an Intro group and an invitational group at the Royal Court. In 2021 she wrote Our Moon Under Water for The Living Newspaper at the Royal Court. In 2023 Kit’s play As We Face the Sun was commissioned by The Bush for their 18-25 young company.
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As We Face the Sun (NHB Modern Plays) - Kit Withington
Kit Withington
AS WE FACE
THE SUN
NICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Introducing Multiplay Drama
Characters
Notes
Notes on the Text
As We Face the Sun
About the Author
Copyright and Performing Rights Information
Introducing Multiplay Drama
Every year, many 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 often struck by the ambition of their themes, the invention of their storytelling and the calibre of their playwrights.
Some of these plays have gone on to be revived in professional productions – for instance, Blue Stockings by Jessica Swale was first seen at RADA in 2012 before being professionally produced at Shakespeare’s Globe in 2013 – but most don’t usually have further life. It seems like the very raison d’être of many of these plays – the creation of large-scale original 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 created Multiplay Drama – a series aiming to bring back to the fore some of the best plays for large casts we’ve read. We first launched the series in 2019, with ten high-quality plays that had originated with various drama schools and youth-theatre companies, providing a selection of complex, dramatic and theatrical works with one common factor: large casts of rich, exciting characters for teenagers and young adults to perform.
Launching the series was something of an experiment. Would there be an appetite for this kind of work? Gratifyingly, it has been a huge success. Hundreds of drama schools, youth theatres, student-drama societies, sixth-form colleges and amateur-theatre companies have read, studied and performed the plays we published in the first ‘season’ of Multiplay Drama, and the initiative was nominated for a Music and Drama Education Award.
Now, four years after we made these first plays available, we’re expanding the series with ten more brilliant and imaginative pieces of work. As we sought out this new set of plays, we had a few goals in mind. We wanted to offer more work that would appeal to younger performers, so that a wider group of schools and amateur companies could benefit. We wanted to diversify the forms and genres of the pieces, so that there was a range of theatrical styles available – from naturalistic drama to period comedies, from sci-fi adventure tales to plays packed with music and song. And we wanted to continue to preserve and share work by some of the best and boldest writers working today.
So, 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, splitting up voices to tell a fragmented story – we have the play for you; if you want to wonder what it’s like to spend every day in a psychiatric unit; traversing London to deliver a message to the Queen herself; or even what it’s like to metamorphose into an animal – we have the plays for you…
Multiplay Drama is a great way for plays with large casts to find even larger