Kidnapping Nick By Ellen Brammar This play was commissioned as part of TEN and first performed in March 2019 by 55 members of Hull Truck Theatre’s Young Company. TEN featured 10 ten-minute plays, each based on a year in the decade since Hull Truck Theatre moved in to its Ferensway home. This play was inspired by the result of 2010 general election in which the Liberal Democrats - led by Nick Clegg -formed a coalition government with the Conservative party. In the build up to the election Nick Clegg promised to scrap university tuition fees but once in power supported a significant rise in the cost of going to university. Plot This play follows a group of young people plotting to get revenge of Nick Clegg for breaking promises he made during the 2010 general election. Notes: Recommended for 12+. This play contains suggested swearing and references to mild violence. When a character speaks it says their name on the left side of the page with their dialogue on the right. Sections written in italics are stage directions. These may describe physically what the audience are seeing on stage or suggest ways the performers should deliver lines. A beat suggests leaving a moment the length of beat. This could be for emphasis or a moment of thought. When a there is a / during a piece of dialogue this indicates an interruption. About the playwright: Ellen is a Hull-based writer and founding company member of Middle Child Theatre. She has recently been selected as one of the BBC Writersroom’s Northern Voices and will deliver her first TV spec script as part of the scheme. Her theatre credits include, I HATE ALONE (2017) with Middle Child, WALK IN THE PARK (2019) with Back to Ours, TEN with Hull Truck Theatre (2019) and ORDINARY PEOPLE (2016) with Middle Child and Leeds Playhouse. She is currently writing a new play for Middle Child which is scheduled for 2021. She was longlisted for the BBC Comedy Script Room in 2016 with CULTURED and shortlisted in the same year for the CBBC sketch show, CLASS DISMISSED.
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