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LAURA MCCLUSKEY |
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Plays by Laura McCluskey |
Nina and Shaz | ||
| 1st Produced: | 2009 | |||||
Company: | Language Laid Bare | |||||
| 1st Published: | I don't think it has been published. Try emailing Playwright or Agent where listed at top of page. | ISBN/ASIN: | - | |||
| Music: | - | doollee no | #97392 | |||
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Genre: | Play/Drama | |||||
| Parts: | Male | - | Female | - | ||
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Synopsis: | In Nina and Shaz the life-story of Nina Simone is played out jointly with that of fictional contemporary counterpart Shazne. As a strategy it is more than moderately successful in contrasting their lives: the puritanical and poverty-stricken background of Simone's youth is compared to the consumerist have-it-all society in which Shazne is raised, and it also serves to highlight the point that, whilst Simone had a prodigious "God-given" natural talent, Shaz is a product fabricated by a pushy single mum with the aid of Nike and D&G. Shaz is our society's wannabe egotistical youth - we feel for the rail-roaded teenager as she inveighs against her mum - "Do you even know what I want?" - but the injustices in her life are trivial when put against those of Simone in racist pre-war North Carolina. | |||||
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