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    katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama)
    katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama)
    katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama)
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    katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama)

    By Tom Fowler

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    A darkly comic story about social inequality and upheaval, told in reverse.
    katzenmusik (German, n.) caterwaul; a shrill howling or wailing noise (of a cat).
    A viral video, a company capitalising on fear, prank calls, class divide and a cat memorial.
    The increasing income gap between rich and poor has pushed the residents of Burnside Town to breaking point.
    katzenmusik was first performed at the Royal Court Theatre, London, by the Royal Court Youth Theatre.
    Multiplay Drama is an exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateApr 4, 2019
    ISBN9781788501040
    katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama)
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    Tom Fowler

    Tom Fowler was born and raised in Baltimore and still resides in Maryland. He is an unabashed homer for Baltimore sports teams. His full-time job is in the field of computer security. Even from a young age, Tom wanted to write. He was about seven or eight, so the stories were brief and awful. Among them was a "murder mystery" in which young Tom, a polite lad, referred to everyone as "Mr. Patrick" or "Miss Jane." The most interesting thing about the alleged murder mystery was that no one died (and, in fact, everyone recovered quite nicely in the hospital). In the intervening years, Tom has gotten over this problem with killing characters in his stories. When not working or writing, Tom enjoys spending time with his family and friends, reading, sports, movies, and writing brief bios in the third person.

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      katzenmusik (Multiplay Drama) - Tom Fowler

      Tom Fowler

      katzenmusik

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Introducing Multiplay Drama

      Original Production

      Characters

      katzenmusik

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information3

      Introducing Multiplay Drama

      John O’Donovan

      Every year, a great number of original plays are commissioned and performed by drama schools, educational institutions, and youth, student and amateur-theatre companies. Reading them, talking to their writers, seeing them in production, we are always struck by the complexity of their themes, the invention of their storytelling and the calibre of their playwrights.

      Some of these plays are revived in professional productions – for instance, Growth by Luke Norris was first seen at the Royal Welsh College before being revised and produced on tour by Paines Plough in their pop-up theatre, Roundabout, and winning a Fringe First Award in Edinburgh – but most haven’t yet had a further life. It seems like the very raison d’être of many of these plays – the creation of large-scale complex pieces for young, large casts – has meant theatre companies, hamstrung by ever-shrinking budgets, haven’t been able to find a way to give the plays the continuing existence that they deserve.

      That’s why Nick Hern Books has created Multiplay Drama – a new series aiming to bring back to the fore some of the best plays for large casts we’ve read. Offering ten high-quality plays that originated with various drama schools and youth-theatre companies, it provides a selection of ambitious, complex, dramatic and theatrical plays with one common factor: large casts of rich, exciting characters for teenagers and young adults to perform.

      No one-person shows. No knotty two-handers. No triptychs. These are plays with big ideas and need big companies to put them across. From the relatively modest seven-hander Blue to the 75+ speaking characters in katzenmusik, these plays offer multiple perspectives and clamorous takes on some of the most important issues of today.

      In making these plays available to read and perform, we’re hoping to see a legion of other drama schools, youth theatres, student-drama societies, sixth-form colleges and amateur-theatre companies gaining ready access to the kinds of plays that interrogate both theatrical storytelling form as vigorously as they question the world we live in today. In every play in this first ‘season’ of the initiative, actors will find roles that are fleshed out and demand self-reflection, that justify their time on the stage and find their place within a larger set of characters.

      If your performance group is looking for a play that builds a post-apocalyptic world and focuses on a large group of identifiable characters navigating through a dystopian vision of Britain – we have the play for you; if you prefer a play where a Chorus comes and narrates across time zones and locations, splitting up voices to tell a fragmented story – we have the play for you; if you want to wonder what it’s like to spend every day in a psychiatric unit; or in mourning for a loved one; or even what it’s like to metamorphose into an animal – we have the plays for you…

      Multiplay Drama is a great way for plays with large casts to find even larger audiences. Commissioned by some of the most illustrious educational and youth groups in the country, and featuring playwrights whose work has been seen on the most celebrated of stages, these ten plays offer rigorous storytelling, unflinching explorations of contemporary issues, and a willingness to experiment with theatrical form and invest even the smallest of roles with significance and dignity. They are ideal for companies with a lot of performers looking for fresh, modern and dramatic stances on the world we live in today.

      John O’Donovan is Consultant Editor at Nick Hern Books.

      An exciting new series of large-cast plays, specifically written to be performed by and appeal to older teenagers and young adults.

      ‘Some of the freshest and most relevant theatre being made today is when dynamic next-generation playwrights collaborate with young companies and drama schools. Making these plays available will continue to bring them to life in

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