New for
2016, MAKE ME INVISIBLE by Bev Clark
- a play for young people which explores the world of an adolescent boy who
feels he is alone, isolated, bullied and not understood by his peers. Through his older self as the narrator and
his younger self as the protagonist, we see through his eyes, the gangs of kids
who pick on him and belittle him and finally ignore him as if he is “thin air”.
He sees them
all as animals - the long-legged laughing girls are hyenas. The goading name-calling
boys are monkeys. The foxes who pretend to be his friends but then laugh behind
his back. The owls, ravens and snakes
each find a way to hurt him.
When he
cannot cope with the stress of the classroom or playground he retreats into a
series of surreal, dream-like scenes expressed through physical theatre,
movement, sometimes with music - sometimes with poetry.
His one
fascination is with the sky and the stars. From an early ambition to be an
astronaut he now wants to fly so he can be lifted up from all of his earthly unhappiness.
The ending
is ambiguous left for you to interpret whether he overcomes his obstacles or
submits to his failings.
A poetic
one-act drama for teenagers allowing for some improvisation and devising around
the issue of loneliness and isolation.
The script
is available to buy from Amazon.com for £4.95 and performance licences are
available from www.scripts4stage.com
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