Girls Like That

Cast: 6-24f 0-6m

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback, 80 pages ISBN: 9781848423534Publication Date:
11 Jul 2013
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound, 160 pages ISBN: 9781839041730Publication Date:
11 Jul 2013
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook, 80 pages ISBN: 9781780012865Publication Date:
15 Aug 2013
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
First Staged:
The Young Rep Festival, Birmingham Repertory Theatre, 2013

Girls Like That

By Evan Placey

Paperback £10.99£8.79

A4 Spiral-bound £16.99£13.59

Ebook £10.99£8.79

An urgent and explosive play that explores of the pressures on young people today in the wake of advancing technology.

When a naked photograph of Scarlett goes viral, she becomes the centre of attention for all the wrong reasons. But while rumours run wild and everyone forms an opinion, Scarlett just stays silent...

With roles for up to twenty-four young female actors (though it can also be performed by a smaller cast), the play is perfect for any schools, youth theatres or drama groups looking to tackle a contemporary subject in a theatrically exciting way.

Specially commissioned by Birmingham Repertory Theatre, Theatre Royal Plymouth and West Yorkshire Playhouse, Evan Placey's play Girls Like That was developed through work with young people from the three theatres and first performed by their youth theatre companies in 2013. It was revived at the Unicorn Theatre, London, in November 2014.

Girls Like That was named Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2015.

Note for Performers: this play contains sexual themes and some adult language. Age guidance 16+.

Girls Like That is also available in the volume Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers.


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This play is also available as an A4 Edition. With spiral binding, a larger print size and additional space for notes, this format is ideal for directors, stage managers, actors and others to use in rehearsal and production.

To order, simply select the 'A4 Spiral-bound' option above. Please note A4 Editions are only available for delivery within the UK.


Blog entry: Sexting in Parliament: insights from the writer and director of Girls Like That - Back in January, members of West Yorkshire Playhouse’s Youth Theatre travelled to Westminster to perform an extract from the play Girls Like That in Parliament as part of the launch of YoungMinds Vs, a new children’s mental health campaign... Read more >>

Press Quotes

'Placey's eye-opening, often uncomfortably honest play... deserves to be widely seen by teenage audiences. And by their parents too'

Guardian

'[Tackles] strong, relevant issues... a well-written, immaculately crafted and brave piece of energetic theatre'

A Younger Theatre

'An urgent, powerful and haunting examination... I can see this play becoming a very popular resource for 16+ groups and that will be no bad thing'

National Drama - Drama magazine

Cast: 6-24f 0-6m

Amateur rights performance fee: £85 per performance (plus VAT where applicable)

Paperback,80 pages ISBN: 9781848423534Publication Date:
11 Jul 2013
Size: 198mm x 129mm£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)
A4 Spiral-bound,160 pages ISBN: 9781839041730Publication Date:
11 Jul 2013
Size: 297mm x 210mm£16.99 £13.59You save £3.40 (20%)
Ebook,80 pages ISBN: 9781780012865Publication Date:
15 Aug 2013
£10.99 £8.79You save £2.20 (20%)

Also by Evan Placey:

Pronoun
Holloway Jones
Peter Pan
Consensual
Jekyll & Hyde
Banana Boys
Girls Like That and other plays for teenagers

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