The Village (NHB Modern Plays)
By Abi Falase and Tatenda Shamiso
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A generation of young people has been let down. Schools are crumbling, the NHS is falling apart, and soon there won't be a planet left to save. It feels like the people in charge simply don't care.
Pushed to the edge, a group of teenagers decide to create a future for themselves, carving out a utopia away from the failings of those who came before. But if you rebuild a society from the ground up, how do you avoid making the same mistakes?
Abi Falase and Tatenda Shamiso's play The Village was first staged at the Almeida Theatre, London, performed by the Almeida 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.
Abi Falase
Abi Falase is a non-binary, Black British Nigerian writer, director and dramaturg from South East London.
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The Village (NHB Modern Plays) - Abi Falase
Abi Falase and Tatenda Shamiso
THE VILLAGE
NICK HERN BOOKS
London
www.nickhernbooks.co.uk
Contents
Introducing Multiplay Drama
Characters
Note
The Village
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