'Tom’s brother is dead. He was killed by a broken bottle to the neck This has upset a lot of people but it hasn’t upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can’t explain. Tom really didn’t like Luke, but without him… This is a play about grief, and looking at someone that little bit more closely.'
This is the notes on the staging that I found in the play which tells you more about how you can show this play and how many people you can have in the cast.
I found a description of what the play is about:
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all. So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
For the rest of the lesson we started doing a new piece Kat came up with an idea doing something that was realistic and then went to non naturalistic then I said we could do something as kids and then go to adults so I said we could start playing a game of it and then freeze and go into adults like we where having a war shooting guns at each other and then we went back to children having a picnic drinking and eating and then when to adults again and this time Lorna was on the floor and we where checking she was alive like she got shot in the war. We did not have any more time to finish it but I know next lesson we are going to carry on with it because I think it was a great idea.
I found a description of what the play is about:
A play about grief and looking at someone that little bit more closely. Tom's brother Luke is dead. This has upset a lot of people but it hasn't upset Tom. Or, rather, it has upset him, but in ways he can't explain and other people can't understand. You see, Tom and Luke were never friends. In fact, Tom didn't really like Luke at all. So it's an odd decision - to try and bury Luke in the pavement of the Tunstall Estate where he was killed. But to Tom, it sort of makes sense, in a stupid-weird kind of way. As he sleeps out on the pavement, he comes across planning officials, tramps, undertakers, police officers, sisters, mothers, estate agents, ghosts, pavement elephants, sky dragons and a strange lad called Tight who wants to sell him a Travelcard. Written specifically for young people, Burying Your Brother in the Pavement was part of the 2008 National Theatre Connections Festival and was premiered by youth theatres across the UK.
For the rest of the lesson we started doing a new piece Kat came up with an idea doing something that was realistic and then went to non naturalistic then I said we could do something as kids and then go to adults so I said we could start playing a game of it and then freeze and go into adults like we where having a war shooting guns at each other and then we went back to children having a picnic drinking and eating and then when to adults again and this time Lorna was on the floor and we where checking she was alive like she got shot in the war. We did not have any more time to finish it but I know next lesson we are going to carry on with it because I think it was a great idea.
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