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Cockroach

  • Sam Holcroft
  • Full Length Play, Drama
  • 2M, 4F
  • ISBN: 9781780016290

A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

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Description

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Target Audience: Teen (Age 14 - 18)
  • Set Requirements: Interior Set

  • Performance Group:
  • High School/Secondary
A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war.

Despite her best efforts, the tide of conflict is soon lapping at the school gates and, one by one, pupils and teacher are pulled under as their hopes and dreams float away from them.
REVIEWS:

"Hauntingly powerful... a playwright brave enough to do battle with the big ideas."

 The Guardian

Premiere Production: National Theatre of Scotland & Traverse Theatre at the Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh, 2008.

Characters

  • Casting: 2M, 4F

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A dark and compelling vision of a world infected by violence.

A seemingly normal detention in a seemingly normal modern-day comprehensive school. A teacher valiantly battles on with biology revision. She believes only education will set her pupils free. For outside the classroom, the world is in the middle of a long and bloody war.

Despite her best efforts, the tide of conflict is soon lapping at the school gates and, one by one, pupils and teacher are pulled under as their hopes and dreams float away from them.

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