{"title":"Books by Vivienne Franzmann","description":null,"products":[{"product_id":"9781839040375","title":"The IT","description":"'It is really small. Whatever it is.    But it's here.    It's definitely here.' A teenage girl has something growing inside her. She doesn't know what it is, but she knows it's not a baby. It expands. It has claws. Eventually it takes over the entirety of her body.    No one must know about it. She has to keep its presence, its possession of her, concealed. She pulls away from her friends. She refuses to speak, in case 'The IT' is heard. But she can't contain it forever. Sooner or later something's got to give...    Presented in the style of a direct-address documentary, Vivienne Franzmann's The IT is a darkly comic state-of-the-nation play exploring adolescent mental health and the rage within.    Written specifically for young people, the play formed part of the 2021 National Theatre Connections Festivals and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK. It was named Best Play for Young Audiences at the Writers' Guild of Great Britain Awards 2023.    The IT offers opportunities for a large, flexible cast of any size and mix of genders.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43205622071474,"sku":"9781839040375","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781839040375.jpg?v=1786027891"},{"product_id":"9781350161009","title":"National Theatre Connections 2020","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eNational Theatre Connections\u003c\/b\u003e is an annual festival which brings new plays for young people to schools and youth theatres across the UK and Ireland. Commissioning exciting work from leading playwrights, the festival exposes actors aged 13-19 to the world of professional theatre-making, giving them full control of a theatrical production - from costume and set design to stage management and marketing campaigns. NT Connections have published over 150 original plays and regularly works with 500 theatre companies and 10,000 young people each year.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis anthology brings together 9 new plays by some of the UK's most prolific and current writers and artists alongside notes on each of the texts exploring performance for schools and youth groups. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWind \/ Rush Generation(s)\u003c\/b\u003e by Mojisola Adebayo \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTuesday \u003c\/b\u003eby Alison Carr\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA series of public apologies (in response to an unfortunate incident in the school lavatories) \u003c\/b\u003eby John Donnelly \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTHE IT\u003c\/b\u003e by Vivienne Franzmann \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Marxist in Heaven \u003c\/b\u003eby Hattie Naylor \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLook Up\u003c\/b\u003e by Andrew Muir \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCrusaders \u003c\/b\u003eby Frances Poet   \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWitches Can’t Be Burned \u003c\/b\u003eby Silva Semerciyan \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eDungeness \u003c\/b\u003eby Chris Thompson .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56297599598965,"sku":"9781350161009","price":22.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781350161009_0e18851c-bb14-49b1-a935-220178a10c13.jpg?v=1786018522"},{"product_id":"9781848422544","title":"Mogadishu","description":"A gripping and urgent play about a well-meaning teacher who intervenes on behalf of a troublesome student, with terrifying consequences.   When white secondary-school teacher Amanda is pushed to the ground by black student Jason, she's reluctant to report him as she knows exclusion could condemn him to a future as troubled as his past.   But when Jason decides to protect himself by spinning a story of his own, Amanda is sucked into a vortex of lies in which victim becomes perpetrator. With the truth becoming less clear and more dangerous by the day, it isn't long before careers, relationships and even lives are under threat.   Vivienne Franzmann's first play, Mogadishu won the Bruntwood Prize for Playwriting in 2008 and the George Devine Award in 2010. It was first produced at the Royal Exchange Theatre, Manchester, in 2011.","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":56308494696821,"sku":"9781848422544","price":11.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0612\/7193\/3106\/files\/9781848422544_1d7c1c90-6d49-44d9-a2ff-4971a9ea8c92.jpg?v=1786029331"}],"url":"https:\/\/backstory.london\/collections\/author-vivienne-franzmann.oembed","provider":"Backstory","version":"1.0","type":"link"}