By Inua Ellams (author) Part of the Plays for Young People. Age 13-18 series
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It's a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2. Protect who you love, what you care about; 3. Let nothing get in your way.
Someone mugged Bruce's mum and he is not having it. The shock is still visible in her trembling fingers, rippling out across the calm waters of their lives. He grabs his hoodie, his uniform, his cape and goes out to find the culprit. Smithy wants everyone to stay inside, Uhuru wants everyone out. Tanya thinks it's boyish fun and games until, very suddenly, it isn't.
Inua Ellams's play questions the boundaries between our right to self-defense and taking the law into our own hands.
Told with five roles spanning from young people to adults, it deals with themes that young people face today: the role of boundaries and what happens when someone 'crosses the line'; fear and the use of self-defense; and examining different perspectives on a situation.
Originally commissioned by Synergy Theatre Project Cape premiered at London's Unicorn Theatre in 2013 and went on to tour schools, prisons and a young offender institution.
This new edition, published within Methuen Drama's Plays For Young People series features notes for teachers and exercises for students for practical use in the classroom.
A Preview of Cape is available here.
To support further study, you can find an introduction to Cape with playwright and poet Inua Ellams available on the Bloomsbury English and Drama Teacher Resources page, as part of Bloomsbury's Lit in Colour Partnership.
Inua Ellams was born in Nigeria in 1984, Inua is an internationally touring poet, playwright, performer, graphic artist & designer. He is an ambassador for the Ministry of Stories and has published four books of poetry: Candy Coated Unicorns and Converse All Stars , Thirteen Fairy Negro Tales ', ' The Wire-Headed Heathen and #Afterhours . His first play The 14th Tale was awarded a Fringe First at the Edinburgh International Theatre Festival and his fourth Barber Shop Chronicles sold out its run at England's National Theatre. He is currently touring An Evening With An Immigrant and working on The Half God of Rainfall - a new play in verse. In graphic art & design, online and in print, he tries to mix the old with the new, juxtaposing texture and pigment with flat shades of colour and vector images. He lives and works from London, where he founded the Midnight Run, a nocturnal urban excursion. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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It's a simple idea, really. 1. Wear a uniform; 2.
The LoveReading4Kids Editorial Team have read and reviewed Cape - Plays for Young People and determined it is suitable for children aged 13-18 years old
Cape - Plays for Young People features in the following genres: Drama / Performing Arts, Children’s / Teenage: General interest, Children’s, Teenage and Educational, Featured Books for Young Adults, Recommendations, Gritty Reads, Featured Books for 13+ readers
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Cape - Plays for Young People was written by Inua Ellams and published by Methuen Drama an imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Cape - Plays for Young People has 40 pages
Yes it is part of Plays for Young People. Age 13-18 series
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