God Bless the Child

by Molly Davies

Overview

When he was small and his parents told him if he was good he would get a sweet, the boy knew it was not true. Getting the sweet had nothing to do with being good.

'Badger Do Best' has landed, bringing with it a new world of rules and regulations. But the kids in the classroom are fighting back. Tired of being guinea pigs in yet another government scheme, can the class of 4N bring down the education regime set to pacify them?

After years working in the classroom, Molly Davies imagines a mutiny of eight-year-olds in her play commissioned by the Royal Court. God Bless the Child received its world premiere in the Upstairs space on 12 November 2014, directed by Royal Court Artistic Director Vicky Featherstone.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781474221900
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	01/20/2015
Series:	Modern Plays
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	80
File size:	1 MB

About the Author

Molly Davies's first play, A Miracle, was produced in 2009 at the Royal Court Theatre as part of the Young Writers Festival. Her other credits include Shooting Truth for National Theatre Connections and Orpheus&Eurydice for National Youth Theatre and Old Vic Tunnels. God Bless the Child, which was premiered at the Royal Court Upstairs, won Molly Davies the Harold Pinter Playwriting Award 2015.
Molly Davies, born in Norfolk, won the Westminster Prize for her ten-minute play No Fairy Stories (Soho Theatre). For young audiences, she has written Day One (National Youth Theatre), The Best Team Since the A Team (Southwark Playhouse) and My Days (Soho/Company of Angels). She is a graduate of the Royal Court Young Writers Programme and A Miracle was her first full-length play. Molly won the 2015 Harold Pinter Playwriting Award for her play God Bless The Child.