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    Moth (NHB Modern Plays)
    Moth (NHB Modern Plays)
    Moth (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Moth (NHB Modern Plays)

    By Declan Greene

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    By turns dark and shimmering, Moth is a fast, funny and heartbreaking story about two young people with nowhere to go.
    Sebastian is "that kid" at high school. He's weird. He smells. He's obsessed with comics, and talks to himself. But after a catastrophic fallout with his only friend, Claryssa, he wakes up with a moth in a jar by his bed, and a calling to save the souls of all humanity. And so begins the Passion of Sebastian: a journey into a terrifying and starless night.
    Declan Greene's play Moth was first produced by Arena Theatre and Malthouse Theatre at the CUB Malthouse Theatre, Melbourne, in May 2010. It was premiered in the UK at HighTide Festival and the Bush Theatre, London, in 2013.
    'Gripping... it rivets the attention' - Telegraph
    'Bursts with a startling visceral energy' - Time Out
    'Both witty and emotionally accurate... an intense theatrical experience' - Whatsonstage.com
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNick Hern Books
    Release dateOct 31, 2019
    ISBN9781788501835
    Moth (NHB Modern Plays)
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    Declan Greene

    Declan Greene is a theatre-maker and Resident Artist at Malthouse Theatre. In 2018 Declan directed Malthouse Theatre and Sydney Theatre Company’s co-production of Blackie Blackie Brown, as well as adapting Lars Von Triers' 2011 feature film Melancholia for the stage. As a playwright, Declan’s work includes Moth, Pompeii L.A., Eight Gigabytes of hardcore Pornography, I Am A Miracle, and The Homosexuals, or ‘Faggots’, which have been produced across Australia, Europe, the US, and the UK. Awards include the Malcolm Robertson Prize, the Max Afford Playwright’s Award, the AWGIE for Theatre for Young Audiences, and the Green Room Award for Best Original Writing.

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      Moth (NHB Modern Plays) - Declan Greene

      Declan Greene

      MOTH

      NICK HERN BOOKS

      London

      www.nickhernbooks.co.uk

      Contents

      Original Production

      Dedication

      Acknowledgements

      Characters

      Setting, Note on Text

      Moth

      About the Author

      Copyright and Performing Rights Information

      Moth was first produced by Arena Theatre and Malthouse Theatre at The CUB Malthouse, Melbourne, on 13 May 2010, with the following cast:

      For Jo & Nyall

      Acknowledgements

      Thanks to everyone who has helped develop this work since 2009. In particular: Anna Niland and the National Youth Theatre REP (London); Nick Pease and the students of Buckley Park Secondary College (Melbourne); Maryanne Lynch at Malthouse Theatre; and all the actors who workshopped the text: Dylan Young, Eryn-Jean Norvill, Chris Ryan, Jada Alberts, Ash Flanders, Sarah Borg. Thanks to Prasanna Puwanarajah for his work on this draft. And to Chris Kohn, who dreamt up the world of this play with me.

      D.G.

      Characters

      SEBASTIAN, fifteen

      CLARYSSA, fifteen

      SEBASTIAN is an impossibly skinny and gawky fifteen-year-old with big bug-eyes. He wears a second-hand school blazer that is several sizes too big, with too-short pants and a shirt, no tie. His head is shaved and he has a rash of pimples across his forehead. His skin is always slightly greasy. He drowns himself in Lynx deodorant because he gets BO and has an organically intense smell. His laugh is beyond annoying. He is obsessed with video games and post-apocalyptic anime – Ghost in the Shell, Neon Genesis Evangelion, Akira, Trinity Blood, etc.

      CLARYSSA is the same age as Sebastian. She is taller than him, and scrawny, but wears a massively oversized school jumper, with sleeves that hang way down over her hands. On her feet: old, black Dr. Martens, totally covered in white-out scribblings. Her hair is dyed black with an inch of brown regrowth – self-cut without a style, hanging lank and greasy. Even though she’s got quite a few pimples (or maybe because of it) she barely wears any make-up – just a small amount of smudged black eyeliner, and black nail polish. She storms around everywhere in a permanent foul mood, with bulky black headphones blocking out the world.

      Setting

      Moth is set within the memory of a specific time frame. Both Sebastian and Claryssa help enact each other’s recollections.

      Note on Text

      A forward slash (/) indicates where the next line starts to overlap.

      When Sebastian or Claryssa play another character – or each other – it is not the actor assuming a different role. Their portrayal is entirely subjective, very much mediated by their opinion of that person at that time. An integral part of the friendship between Sebastian and Claryssa is their love of mocking each other and the people around them, so this should be taken into consideration as well.

      Words within quotation marks are a memory of words that were spoken. Words out of quotation marks are in the present.

      Geographical and cultural references can be freely adapted to the city of production,

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