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DEADLINE: A MANUAL FOR HOSTAGE-TAKING
$5.40 – $15.00
A heavily ritualised performance piece in the non-naturalistic/experimental style, using space, voice, movement, light and sound to explore dynamics and power relationships in a hostage situation. The piece dissects a single point in time to explore the action, ideas, history and emotion of that moment. It is playable as one long narrative piece (90 min) or as separate sequences (10-30 min) for exploring acting and stagecraft.
"A good play for young actors. It does not involve in-depth character analysis and development, but it does involve analysis of ideas and theatrical forms, requiring flexibility, creativity and discipline." Cathie Clelland, Theatre Studies Dept, ANU.
- experimental, ritual, poetic
- 90
- 8 total
- 4 female identifying, 4 male identifying
- adolescence
- 12 to 16, 16 to 18, 18+
- teen, young adult, adult
- Australian Script Centre
- MONOLOGUES
- PRODUCTION HISTORY
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Chorus
Gender Unspecified | Unspecified | under 3 minutes
Starts on page 53
EXTRACT: Three folks marooned on a desert island: Diddly- A, Diddley-B and Diddley-C squat. One day deep in the sixth month , sauntering the beach they find a lamp buried in the sand. Diddley-A picks it up. Rubs it Whomp - a genie Towers before them. "Hoes it going guys ? he booms, dusting himself off.
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