Pop Music E-Book

Anna Jordan

• Herausgeber: Nick Hern Books
• Kategorie: Poesie und Drama
• Sprache: Englisch

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2018

Beschreibung

A play for anyone that's ever been a dick on the dance floor. A wedding. A free bar. A blast from the past. G and Kayla's lives are a mess but tonight they're determined to Have It Large. As their veins course with adrenaline and cheap prosecco, we follow them on an epic journey through thirty years of pop. Can the DJ save them as they become Dancing Queens, reliving their Teenage Dream, Staying Out For The Summer and Spicing Up Their Lives? Pop makes promises it can't keep, and soon they'll discover they have more in common than their taste in tunes.   Anna Jordan's play Pop Music is an emotionally contagious rollercoaster. It premiered at Birmingham Repertory Theatre in September 2018 (previews at Latitude Festival, July 2018), produced by Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre in association with Latitude Festival, followed by a tour. This edition also includes Anna Jordan's short play Closer to God, which received the Overall Winner and Audience Choice Awards when it was premiered at the inaugural OffCut Festival in 2009.

Leseprobe

Anna Jordan

POP MUSIC

NICK HERN BOOKS

London

www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

Contents

Original Production

Thanks

Dedication

Epigraph

Characters

A Note on the Play

Pop Music

Characters

Closer to God

About the Author

Copyright and Performing Rights Information

Pop Music was produced by Paines Plough and Birmingham Repertory Theatre in association with Latitude Festival. It was first performed at Latitude Festival on 12 July 2018, with the following cast:

KAYLA

Katherine Kotz

G

Rakesh Boury

REMIX

Ciaran Alexander Stewart

Direction

James Grieve

Lighting

Tanya Stephenson

Sound

Dominic Kennedy

Movement

Annie-Lunnette Deakin-Foster

Assistant Director

Elin Schofield

Associate Sound Designer          

Ben Smith

Creative Captioning

Blacklight Productions

Production Manager

Ben Pavey

Company Stage Manager

Carrie Hitchman

Line Producer

Harriet Bolwell

Thanks

Phil Matejtschuk

Alison King

David Hemsted

Peter Gordon

Chris Urch

Camilla Young

Scott Chaloff

A.J.

For Davey,For everything, always

Pop music makes promises it can’t keep.

Characters

KAYLA

G

/ indicates an overlap.

… indicates a trailing-off or a searching for words, but rarely a slowing down.

A Note on the Play

The text of Pop Music is inspired by the songs that feature in it and, in many cases, the lines of text fit intricately within or around the songs’ verses, bridges and choruses. Due to copyright restrictions, we are unable to transcribe these fully in this publication, but the lyrics to the songs are easily available online, and if you wish to perform this play Curtis Brown or Nick Hern Books can provide further guidance on how the text fits with the music.

There is a Pop Music playlist with a full track listing on Spotify, created by Birmingham Rep (birminghamrep), at https://spoti.fi/2wEzJ0o

This ebook was created before the end of rehearsals and so may differ slightly from the play as performed.

KAYLA and G are at The Wedding. These short sharp sections of text show the progression of the day. They could lose jackets, ties, pashminas, shoes; generally get more dishevelled and boozy as time goes on.

They start by addressing ushers in church.

KAYLA. Bride.

G. Groom.

KAYLA (taking order of service). Thanks. What? (Indicates to G behind her.) Us?

G. No it’s cool I’ll only need –

KAYLA. No we’re not together I’m –

G. One.

KAYLA. Alone.

The word ‘Alone’ resonates. They sit.

Snap to: Them watching Jade and Miles walk down the aisle.

Snap to: Them both holding hymn sheets up, singing in that self-conscious way that you do at a wedding, looking around them. They sing ‘All Things Bright and Beautiful’.

TOGETHER. He made their glowing colours,

He made their tiny wings.

Snap to: Outside they both throw confetti over the bride and groom.

Snap to: Later. At the bar. They almost overlap.

KAYLA. Gin and tonic.