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Sparkleshark

  • Philip Ridley
  • Full Length Play, Drama, Contemporary
  • 6M, 3F
  • ISBN: 9780573051227

Fourteen-year-old Jake, the classroom "geek", takes refuge on the roof of a tower block in order to write his stories.

  • Full Length Play
  • Drama

  • Time Period: Contemporary
  • Set Requirements: Exterior Set
Fourteen-year-old Jake, the classroom "geek", takes refuge on the roof of a tower block in order to write his stories. Before long, other young people join him and the taunting begins. Although at first he endeavors to hide, he learns to fight back in the only way he knows how -- storytelling. Soon the whole group in enmeshed in the story, enacting a fantastic tale which resonates with the dynamics of their own friendships and enmities.

Premiere Production: Sparkleshark was commissioned by the Royal National Theatre, London, for the BT National Connections Scheme for young people in 1997. The play was first performed at the Royal National Theatre on 15th July, 1997.
  • Casting: 6M, 3F

  • JAKE
    POLLY
    NATASHA
    CAROL
    RUSSELL
    BUZZ
    SPEED
    SHANE
    FINN
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    Fourteen-year-old Jake, the classroom "geek", takes refuge on the roof of a tower block in order to write his stories. Before long, other young people join him and the taunting begins. Although at first he endeavors to hide, he learns to fight back in the only way he knows how -- storytelling. Soon the whole group in enmeshed in the story, enacting a fantastic tale which resonates with the dynamics of their own friendships and enmities.

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