Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy: No Milk for the Foxes; Denmarked; High Rise Estate of Mind

By Conrad Murray

This collection of three hip hop plays by Conrad Murray and his Beats & Elements collaborators David Bonnick Jr. Paul Cree and Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens, is the first publication of the critically acclaimed theatre-maker's work. Using the medium of hip hop to highlight the system, these pieces weave together lyricism, musicality and dialogue to offer accounts of inner-city life written by working class Londoners: No Milk for the Foxes by Paul Cree and Conrad Murray - Interlacing hip hop lyricism with comic naturalism, we, follow two security guards on zero-hours contracts working the night-shift at a washing machine components factory. DenMarked by Conrad Murray - Conrad's own account of growing up with his family in south London as a mixed-race working-class Londoner. It features stories front his housing estate, and the characters he meets along the way. This show weaves hip hop and Shakespeare to tell the story, and expresses the power and influence of music in his life. High Rise eState of Mind by David Bonnick Jr, Paul Cree, Lakeisha Lynch-Stevens and Conrad Murray - Inspired by J. G. Ballard's novel High-Rise, this is the dystopian tale of a high-rise tower block in London, interwoven with the performers' autobiographical housing stories. Edited by scholar Katie Beswick, this anthology also offers two introductory essays, which contextualise the plays and position hip hop as a literary art form Further featuring a foreword by leading hip hop theatre practitioner Jonzi D. interviews with the Beats & Elements company, and a glossary of words for students and international readers. Beats and Elements: A Hip Hop Theatre Trilogy is the ideal introduction to Conrad Murray's acclaimed canon. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350270598
• ISBN13: 9781350270596
• Release Date: April 2022
• Publisher: Methuen Drama
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 0.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.6"