Bones
By Cillian Sheehan
Age range
11 – 13, 13 – 15, 16 +
Cast size
Under 10
Approx. running time
Under 30 mins
Gender breakdown
Male: 1
Female: 1
Female: 1
Setting
A school orchestra.
Note
A school based comedy for a very small cast.
First performance
Fighting Words, 2020. Youth Theatre Ireland are delighted to partner with Fighting Words on their Writing for Theatre - Young Playwrights Programme at the Riverbank Arts Centre in Newbridge Co. Kildare!
Synopsis
In the brutal, pitiless world of a teenage concert orchestra, two young musicians reveal to us their starkly different experiences. Hugh is a trombonist, and is slowly climbing his way to the top of the food chain, sparing no mercy for those who stand in his way. Nina, a flautist, has none of Hugh's delusions of grandeur and is merely trying to survive in the cutthroat environment she has found herself in. Naturally, the two despise each other, and must soon battle it out to see who will perish, and who will rise to become the orchestra's apex predator.