The Kids Are Alt Right
Published on 1. August 2019
Book
Paperback/Softback
56 pages
978-1-350-14052-3 (ISBN)
Description
Four Scottish teenagers. Two interlocking stories. One ideology tears them apart.
Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now. Britney's views about everything are changing dramatically. She's getting drawn into the alt right online. When Fatma is sent something sinister through the post it triggers a series of decisions that will destroy their lives and their teacher's life for ever. Britney's brother Jordan is pals with Quinn. Quinn is proud to be right wing. That is until he falls deeply into its darkness and finds he's in over his head with a blade in his pocket. All four teenagers lives are changed forever - engulfed in the fallout of when damaging influence leads to damaging actions.
This is an unflinching exploration of how young people today are prey to a range of extreme ideologies and how helpless people in their real lives are to stop them imploding.
The Kids Are Alt Right is a cautionary tale of how social media and YouTube content can lead to actions and consequences that can never be undone.
Talented kickboxers and A-grade pupils Fatma and Britney have been best friends for ever. That is until now. Britney's views about everything are changing dramatically. She's getting drawn into the alt right online. When Fatma is sent something sinister through the post it triggers a series of decisions that will destroy their lives and their teacher's life for ever. Britney's brother Jordan is pals with Quinn. Quinn is proud to be right wing. That is until he falls deeply into its darkness and finds he's in over his head with a blade in his pocket. All four teenagers lives are changed forever - engulfed in the fallout of when damaging influence leads to damaging actions.
This is an unflinching exploration of how young people today are prey to a range of extreme ideologies and how helpless people in their real lives are to stop them imploding.
The Kids Are Alt Right is a cautionary tale of how social media and YouTube content can lead to actions and consequences that can never be undone.
Reviews / Votes
The Kids Are Alt Right works well as a piece of political theatre ... This approach to counter the theatre of divisive right-wing attitudes in our schools is to be applauded and is sadly necessary. * National Drama *More details
Series
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Dimensions
Height: 193 mm
Width: 123 mm
Thickness: 4 mm
Weight
74 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-350-14052-3 (9781350140523)
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Additional editions
Martin Travers
The Kids Are Alt Right
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€13.99
Available for download
Martin Travers
The Kids Are Alt Right
E-Book
10/2019
1st Edition
Methuen Drama
€13.99
Available for download
Person
Martin Travers is a dramatist based at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre where he is Producer for Citizens Learning. He has been on the Playwrights Studio (Scotland)'s mentoring scheme and has been on writing attachment with the National Theatre of Scotland. In 2011, in partnership with Sense over Sectarianism, his play Scarfed for Life toured secondary schools with a cast of professional actors and members of the Citizens Theatre's Young Company. A new version of the play toured Scotland prisons in 2013. His other work for the stage includes Roman Bridge; an adaptation of Theresa Breslin's novel Divided City, and he is currently working on a new play with the Playwrights Studio (Scotland).