Summary
HERE are three short scenes, all taken from the past ten years of the Traverse Theatre's Class Act project, which celebrates its 21st birthday this week with performances in Glasgow and Edinburgh, as well as a special Gala event at the Traverse.
In the first scene, we are in a classroom in the Russian city of Tolyatti, along with two playwrights from Scotland, Douglas Maxwell and Nicola McCartney. The year is 2004, and for the first time in their lives, a group of students from the local comprehensive are meeting, and preparing to work with, 15 young people from one of the city's orphanages. Some of the comprehensive kids are reluctant to sit next to their new classmates; they have often been told that they will "catch something" if they do. But among those students from the orphanage is a girl called Xusha, who briefly glows as the finest and fiercest young playwright of them all - and sets Nicola McCartney on the path towards a new life as a foster-parent to troubled teenagers - before she slips back into the darkness that claims the lives of most young Russians brought up in care, before they reach the age of 21.See the full content of this document
Extract
'It's About Children Finding Their Voice'
In scene two, it is 2006, and we are in a shopping street in Moscow, where two Scottish writers and a group of Moscow kids are walking in a circle around their new-found friends from schools in the Caucausus regions of Ingush...
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