Synopsis
Girls Like That and Other Plays for Teenagers
Published by Nick Hern Books
Large Mixed Cast
This acclaimed Collection features four urgent and explosive plays for young people by award-winning playwright Evan Placey
They each tackle vital issues facing young people today, providing ideal material for teenagers to read, study and perform
Girls Like That explores the pressures caused by technology when a schoolgirl's naked photograph goes viral
Winner of the Writers' Guild Award for Best Play for Young Audiences
Banana Boys - published here for the first time - is about the challenges of being on the school football team
And being secretly gay
Also published for the first time is Holloway Jones where Holloway dreams of being a world-class BMX rider
But she is held back by the tough reality of a parent in prison
Winner of the 2012 Brian Way Award for Best Play for Young People
Finally, Pronoun is a love story about two childhood sweethearts
It deals with the fact that one of them - Isabella - has now become a boy
As one of the plays in the 2014 National Theatre Connections Festival it has proved enormously popular with youth theatres and colleges