Platform Plays Series
By Georgia Christou and Lizzie Nunnery
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About this series
Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet – and the truth about her family – in the hope that everything might start to make sense again.
Lizzie Nunnery's Heavy Weather is a powerful, timely play about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.
Titles in the series (2)
- Bright. Young. Things. (NHB Platform Plays)
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'People don't like it when things come easier to you. They don't like being around someone who makes them feel stupid. They don't like… me.' On a reality television show, six remarkable – and remarkably young – geniuses are competing for the coveted Golden Brain trophy and the title 'Britain's Brainiest Child'. As the contestants battle it out round after round, the pressure mounts, the spotlight gets harsher, and each is faced with questions they were never expecting. Who will win and who will lose – and what exactly does winning mean anyway? Georgia Christou's Bright. Young. Things. is a funny, fast-paced play about identity, truth and the challenge of finding out who you really are. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.
- Heavy Weather (NHB Platform Plays)
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'The sky. The water. The air. It won't keep snapping back. You can't keep refreshing the screen. A lie is not a white lie, or a half-lie or a false truth or fake news… It's a lie and we call it a lie, or everything's cracking underneath us.' Mona is a young woman on the edge. All she sees is the Earth falling apart, but no one really seems to care. Amidst the chaos of competing and contradictory voices, she sets off on a kaleidoscopic journey to find solutions for the planet – and the truth about her family – in the hope that everything might start to make sense again. Lizzie Nunnery's Heavy Weather is a powerful, timely play about one girl taking control of her destiny in a world teetering on the brink. It is part of Platform, an initiative from Tonic Theatre in partnership with Nick Hern Books. Aimed at achieving greater gender equality in theatre, Platform comprises big-cast plays with predominantly, or all, female casts, written specifically for performance by young actors.
Georgia Christou
Georgia Christou is a writer for stage and screen. Theatre includes Yous Two at Hampstead Theatre (nominated for the Verity Bargate Award and a Stage Debut Award), How to Spot an Alien for Paines Plough, and Peter Pan for Birmingham Rep (co-adapter). Short plays include How to Not Sink for Sphinx Theatre (published in Women Centre Stage by Nick Hern Books), and Ephrem Holmes for DryWrite/The Bush. Georgia has taken part in the Royal Court’s Young Writers Programme. Georgia’s television debut, Through the Gates for Channel 4, was nominated for two BAFTAs: Best Single Drama and Best Breakthrough. She has also worked on dramas for Netflix, Sky Atlantic, Channel 4 and the BBC.
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