Represent! New Plays for Multicultural Youth

This collection contains thirteen plays from a range of writers, in which most of the characters should be played by non-white actors. The collection is based on a singular principle from the words of the late Rodney Gilbert: ‘the magical world of theatre becomes even more magical when you can see yourself.’ As teachers and performers, we can immediately identify with this concept, and for that alone I would recommend this collection. If you have many students from different ethnic backgrounds this anthology will offer them a chance to experience texts in which they are the majority; if you work with very few students of differing ethnicity it may offer them a chance to see something of themselves reflected and to perform roles where they share the character's background.