Looking for a play that incorporates ensemble work, gives you complete freedom with staging and has an educational subject matter for your class? Well, look no further than Nina Lemon's Losing it.
With 19 main characters – and the option for 24+ roles in total – this play could be staged by a whole class or broken up into sections for smaller groups, allowing students to experiment with multi-roling, quick transitions between the past and present, and the opportunity to play different ages.
The dialogue is both witty and snappy, and gives equal opportunities for the characters’ voices to be heard, making it a great opportunity for ensemble work. With minimal stage directions, you'll have the freedom to adapt the script to various different styles of theatre. The quick dialogue and overlapping lines would lend themselves well to chorus work, and you could use either gestural or physical theatre to jump between time and place within the plot. The freedom is there for the students to devise around the text.
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