Brainstorm: The Original Playscript: And a Blueprint for Creating Your Own Production

by Ned Glasier, Emily Lim

Inside every adolescent brain, 86 billion neurons connect and collide to produce the most frustrating, chaotic and exhilarating changes that will ever happen to us.

Brainstorm is a unique theatrical investigation into how teenagers’ brains work, and why they’re designed by evolution to be the way they are.

Created by Ned Glasier and Emily Lim with Company Three (formerly Islington Community Theatre), in collaboration with neuroscientists Professor Sarah-Jayne Blakemore and Dr Kate Mills, the play is designed to be created and performed by a company of teenagers, drawing directly on their personal experiences.

This edition contains a series of exercises, resources and activities to help schools, youth-theatre groups and young companies create and perform their own Brainstorm. It also features the complete script of the original production which played at Park Theatre and the National Theatre, London, in 2015.

'This is a very cunningly put-together piece, drawing with unflinching honesty on material excavated from the young people's own lives... and capturing the hormonal rush and wild mood swings of teenage existence... The real beauty of this memorable show is that it's not just all about them – it's definitely about us too' - Guardian

Genres: Plays

88 pages, Kindle Edition

Published December 15, 2016

Reviews

[Abbi Williams · Rating 5 out of 5]

I really enjoyed reading this play.

[Lauren-Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

Really intriguing play. Performing it soon at my college and I actually can't wait!

[Pe Garcia]

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[Evelyn White · Rating 2 out of 5]

I read this for school
It was really interesting how they set it, so I could’ve read worse plays

[Rosie Sloan · Rating 3 out of 5]

An interesting play which mixes verbatim style theatre from the actors devising process with sections of text about how the teenage brain works. A great play to teach a variety of theatre skills and to highlight that teenage brains don't work the same way as an adults. A great play for a youth cast, as written as part of NT Connections.

[Steven Slaughter · Rating 4 out of 5]

Fascinating!

I've directed several plays now and stumbled upon this one in my search for what we'll do next. I could see this being a fascinating process -- one of deep discovery and imagination, and one that could connect teens with their parents more deeply.

[Mary · Rating 1 out of 5]

The only show where I was miserable the entire time I was on stage, in practice, and reading the script.