The ash girl by timberlake wertenbaker
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I love The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker. It is a wonderful play that just speaks to teenagers of all backgrounds, experiences and situations. As a play, it covers a multitude of different issues from immigration to parental expectations via self-image, loss and relationships (and a whole lot more besides). So there truly is something for everyone in the text. It is a challenge to perform, it has a huge cast and many of the roles cannot be multirolled very easily, there are also physical challenges in interpreting and physicalising the deadly sins and sadness (I love the fact that there is a physical embodiment of Sadness in the play – certainly my inner teenager is just screaming out saying “read this now, it is basically a metaphor for how I’m feeling right now!”) and then there see the animal characters to deal with as well.
However, I’ve never ever actually performed the play, for the biggest reason I love the play is it is so good to create n
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Plot
'The Ash Girl, a new take on the Cinderella story, whilst keeping the happy ending of original fairy tale it puts its own spin on the plot' http://www.castingcallpro.com/uk/play/1639/the-ash-girl
'When an invitation to The Ball arrives at the Ash girl's house, from Prince Amir, she can't bring herself to believe that she, like her sisters, can go. With her mother dead and her father away, she must learn to fight the monsters that have slithered and insinuated their way into her heart and mind' http://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-ash-girl-iid-16797
'The Ashgirl is a retelling of a Cinderella story where the sju Deadly Sins make their way into her mind'
Characters
Ashgirl- Estelle
Ruth- &nb
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The Ash Girl (Wertenbaker, Timberlake)
The Ash Girl (Wertenbaker, Timberlake)
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The Ash Girl
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Contents
Title Page
Dedication
First Performance
Characters
Act One
Scene One: Who Lives in the House
Scene Two: Who Lives in the Ashes
Scene Three: Who Goes to the Ball
scen Four: Who Lives in the Palace
Scene Five: Who Lives in the Forest
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