Home (NHB Modern Plays)

by Nadia Fall

Overview

A powerful, inventive play that mixes real testimonials alongside existing and original music to explore one of the most important social concerns of today: homelessness amongst young people.

Bullet doesn't want to call a hostel home. Eritrean Girl was smuggled here in a lorry. Singing Boy dreams of seeing his name in lights and Garden Boy just wants to feel safe.

In 2013, homelessness amongst young people in the UK is at a record high, so when the big society doesn't work ? where do you go? An inner city high rise hostel, Target East, offers a roof.

Home brings to life the unheard voices of the young residents and staff who live and work behind the anonymous concrete walls. A bold verbatim play that asks what it really means to call somewhere home, it is offers ideal material for youth theatres and young performers.

'raises timely political questions in a fresh and streetwise style' - Evening Standard

'filled with a fierce eloquence... a boldly theatrical piece' - Guardian

'extraordinary... leaves you not just moved, but awed and uplifted' - Metro

'powerful... an honest and reflective piece of theatre' - The Stage

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781780016405
Publisher:	Hern, Nick Books
Publication date:	07/01/2015
Sold by:	Bookwire
Format:	eBook
Pages:	72
File size:	146 KB
Age Range:	12 Years

About the Author

Nadia Fall completed an MA in directing at Goldsmiths University of London and attended the National Theatre’s Directors programme. As a director her work includes Dara (National Theatre); Hobson’s Choice (Regent’s Park Open Air Theatre); Chewing Gum Dreams (The Shed, National Theatre); Untold Stories (National Theatre/West End); The Doctor’s Dilemma (National Theatre); Disgraced (Bush); How Was It For You (Unicorn); Sticks and Stones (Polka). She was Associate Director on The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (directing the West End transfer), Collaborators and The Habit of Art, and has been staff director on Rocket to the Moon, Really Old, Like Forty Five, Phèdre and Much Ado About Nothing at the National. She also assisted Neil Bartlett on Oliver Twist. She is artistic director of Naach Theatre Company: productions include Genet’s The Maids (Lyric Hammersmith/mac, Birmingham); Strindberg’s Miss Julie (Lyric Hammersmith/ Warehouse Theatre/The Bull); The Fastest Clock in the Universe (Ovalhouse); and a site-specific production of Joe Penhall’s Wild Turkey in Old Street. She directs at Guildhall School of Music and Drama, most recently directing their final year production of Aces and Jacks by David Mamet, runs the Unicorn Theatre’s Young Company, and has led numerous participation initiatives with partners such as the Young Vic, Clean Break, Soho Theatre and the Royal Court. She is also an acting coach, supporting professional actors for film and stage. Home is her first play.