Little Platoons
- Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
- 6M, 5F
- ISBN: 9781848421516
"Wittily exposes the confusion that surrounds the subject of how we best educate our children."
The Guardian
Description
- Full Length Play
- Drama
- Time Period: Contemporary
- Target Audience: Adult
- Set Requirements: Unit Set/Multiple Settings
- Performance Group:
- Community Theatre
When Rachel's ex threatens to remove their son from London to sort out his education, she joins a local group of parents setting up a 'free school'. Her new friends, led by the charismatic Nick, want to create an education their children can enjoy not endure. But the vision of the Big Society they seek to create tears their lives apart.
Steve Waters' play Little Platoons was first staged at the Bush Theatre, London, in 2011.
REVIEWS:
"Wittily exposes the confusion that surrounds the subject of how we best educate our children."
The Guardian
"An engrossing state-of-the-nation play about a contemporary issue that is unlikely to go away."
Arts Desk
"Anatomises the urgency of education policies in the coalition government... I can't recall a more urgently satirical local play at this address in all the wonderful 38 years of its existence."
WhatsOnStage.com
Characters
- Casting: 6M, 5F
- Casting Attributes: Good role(s) for younger performers
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Moving from satiric comedy to poignant family drama, Little Platoons explores what the retreat of the state and the growth of people power really means for society and its youngest citizens. |
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