Niveau intermédiaire

de Peter Griffith

 

Dennis voudrait un nouvel ordinateur, mais son père ne veut pas lui acheter. Dennis voudrait aussi impressionner Gina, la plus jolie fille de la classe, mais elle ne s’intéresse qu’à Zach, qu’elle trouve «cool». Si Dennis vole une bouteille de parfum au supermarché et la donne à Gina, peut-être qu’elle le trouvera cool. Et si après, avec l’aide de Gina, il volait l’ordinateur de ses rêves…?
Mais la vie d’un voleur n’est pas aussi simple que le pensait Dennis. Il est traqué par sa conscience et par l’angoisse d’être attrapé. Et le pire, c’est qu’il a menti à son père. Quand finalement la police l’attrape, c’est la découverte de la trahison de la confiance de son père qui fait le plus mal.

 

Light Fingers examine le phénomène de la délinquance juvénile et montre combien il est facile pour les jeunes d’être séduits par les promesses de la société de consommation, combien il est facile pour eux de s’égarer dans une spirale d’actions irresponsables, et combien les conséquences peuvent être dévastatrices.

 

 

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Gina: Have you got a computer, then?
Dennis: Yeah, well, I’ve got an old one. But when I’ve got some money, I’m going to get a new one.
Gina: Cool. When are you going to get it then?
Dennis: I don’t know. It’ll take me years to make enough money to buy it.
Gina: Buy it? Why don’t you just help yourself?
Dennis: Help myself?
Gina: Yeah, I mean, like you did with the perfume. Real cool...
Dennis: Yeah, well, a little bottle of perfume’s different.
Gina: You’re not scared, are you?
Dennis: Scared? Me? Oh no.
Gina: I mean, the way you brought out that perfume. That was real cool. That wasn’t the first time you’ve taken things, was it?
Dennis: Oh no, I do it all the time.
Gina: I thought so. You’re…cool.

de Peter Griffith

 

Elaine Higgs et Juliet Pomery forment le célèbre groupe 'Lip Gloss'. Elles passent à la télévision dans un talk show où elles évoquent leur parcours. Elaine est issue d'un milieu très pauvre: elle doit renoncer à une sortie de classe que son père, mineur au chômage, ne peut pas payer.
Juliet, pour sa part, vient d'une famille fortunée. Ses parents lui achètent tout ce qu'elle désire et lui font même prendre des cours de danse classique. Elles se rencontrent lors d'un crochet et décident de se revoir pour écrire une chanson.
Après avoir entendu leur titre 'Harmony', Clive, un producteur, devient leur agent et lance leur carrière. Elles deviennent célèbres sous le nom de 'Lip Gloss' qu'elles donnent à leur groupe. Hélas, à cause de leur origines sociales si différentes, leur partenariat est miné par la jalousie et la méfiance.



 

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Juliet: God I'm nervous.
Elaine: Don't be silly.
Juliet: It reminds me of my first gymkhana. Waiting with my pony, hoping he would jump well.
Elaine: I wouldn't know. I never had a pony.
Juliet: Sorry. It keeps slipping out.
Elaine: What?
Juliet: Little things – that remind you that you didn't have all the... advantages that I had.
Elaine: Look Juliet, have I ever complained about being poor, about being working-class? That's just the way it is. You lived in a huge house and had ponies and went to boarding-school, I lived in a tiny flat and had cockroaches and had no money. But that doesn't mean that I'm jealous.

by Peter Griffith

Lee, Sandra, Dave and Penny want to save the world…

Inspired by “Fridays for Future” they argue and they demonstrate and they march.

This topical new play, written in simple English, introduces us to four young people who are committed to leaving the world a better place than they found it...

and if that means missing a maths lesson, then so be it!

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Lee: I’ve had an idea.
Dave: No!
Lee: Listen:how many schools are there in Britain?
Dave: How many schools? No idea.
Lee: Roughly.
Sandra: Maybe thirty thousand.
Lee: OK, let’s say about thirty thousand. And every one of those thirty thousand schools has got a roof.
Penny: A roof?
Lee: A roof.
Dave: Well I hope they have.
Lee: So let’s try to get a photovoltaic roof over every school in Britain. So that every school makes its own ecological clean green electricity. We can do it on our own school first - to show how it’s done – and then we tell every school in the country how to make its own electricity.
Penny: I’ve got an idea too.
Dave: You’ve got idea? Are you sure?
Penny: Shut up.
Lee: Come on, give her a chance. Come on Penny, tell us your idea.
Penny: Well, I’ve been thinking.
Dave: No... I don’ t believe that.
Penny: You know I’ve always wanted to be a model.
Sandra: Yes, I think we know that much about you.
Penny: Shut up Sandra, you don’ t know what you’ re talking about.
Lee: Give her a chance, Sandy.
Penny: Well I thought, maybe I could design a new line in fashion clothing... and I could model it outside the school gates... and we could sell it to the crowds... and we could use the money to help save the world. Maybe for Lee’s photovoltaic roof.
Dave: That’ s great – save the world with Penny’ s knickers!
Penny: Then it could spread to other schools.
Dave: Wow - save the universe with Penny’s knickers!
Penny: You’re not taking this seriously. I think it could be really good.