Drama Sparkleshark
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Sparkle Shark Coursework Amy Hudson In drama, we have recently been looking at a contemporary piece of youth theatre, Sparkleshark, by Philip Ridley. Sparkleshark is set on the junk-strewn roof of an inner-city tower block. This is the secret hideaway of Jake (14), where he goes to work on his stories. He's interrupted by Polly (14), who's more impressed by his stories than his rudeness, then by the trendily-dressed Natasha (15) and Carol (14) who copies everything Natasha does and wears; finally, to his terror, up come his tormentors, the self-obsessed Russell (15) 'the love muscle', his cohorts Buzz and Speed (both 14) and Shane (16), who they all regard with awe now he's left school for the outside world. Tough, trendy, heartless, they all think they know who they are, or need to be to survive. But they're in for the biggest surprise of their lives. When the girls try...


