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Sabrina Mahfouz

Layla's Room

Sabrina Mahfouz

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English
Methuen Drama
15 September 2016
Plays & playscripts; Playscripts (Children's&YA)
Series: Modern Plays
Respect women, respect girls. Respect yourselves. Remember you are everyone who’s gone before you and you are nobody that has ever been, so make it count, make it special, make a difference, make people listen, love the women who have loved you and watch us make the world move to a better place.

For Layla, every day is a battleground.

The pay gap, the thigh gap, over-sexed pop and selfies that are photoshopped – they’re just part of the world she lives in.

But that world is about to change.

While breaking out of her bedroom – and with drama, comedy, poetry and music as her weapons – Layla breaks down and makes sense of the realities, difficulties and absurdities of teenage life in the UK today.

Collected from a bespoke national survey, the voices of a thousand UK teens are brought to life in Layla. Their ambitions, concerns, role-models and regrets are woven together by award-winning Sabrina Mahfouz and theatre company Theatre Centre, offering a hard-hitting, yet hopeful, story.

Layla's Room received its world premiere at Redbridge Drama Centre on 15 September 2016 in a production by Theatre Centre. It is ideal for students and young performers between 16 and 18 years old.
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Imprint:   Methuen Drama
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 198mm,  Width: 129mm,  Spine: 3mm
Weight:   59g
ISBN:   9781350027572
ISBN 10:   135002757X
Series:   Modern Plays
Pages:   48
Publication Date:  
Audience:   General/trade ,  Young adult ,  ELT Advanced ,  Preschool (0-5)
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Sabrina Mahfouz is a British-Egyptian playwright, poet and screenwriter. Chef won a 2014 Fringe First Award; One Hour Only was winner of the 2012 Old Vic New Voices Edinburgh Award; Clean was produced by Traverse Theatre and transferred to New York in 2014; and With A Little Bit of Luck was produced by Paines Plough and Latitude. Sabrina has been the Sky Arts Academy Scholar for Poetry, Leverhulme Playwright in Residence at Bush Theatre and Associate Artist at Bush Theatre.

Reviews for Layla's Room

Fist-pumping euphoria . . . Crackles with a rare and unexpected life * Stage on With A Little Bit Of Luck * It weaves an homage to garage music . . . Room-filling vocals . . . Tightly co-ordinated . . . Perfect. * Financial Times on With A Little Bit Of Luck * Magical stuff . . . immense details . . . high velocity . . . nerveless and tight * Observer on Dry Ice * Sensational ... the best writing on the fringe * British Theatre Guide on Clean * Mahfouz's poetic script fizzes with energy * Independent on Chef * A blistering way with language ... This is how theatre can take you anywhere in your imagination * Herald on Clean *


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