The plays we took inspiration from and included into 14 by 14:

Motortown:

This play is by Simon Stephens and is written around the time of the London bombings of 2005. Danny returns from being in the army and is unwell. It is dangerous because he can be very violent. Danny comes across people he has a past with called Marley, Jade, Lee and more. Marley used to be his girlfriend, he kills Jade and Lee is his brother who has autism. I did like this play and I had a scene with Michael with him playing Danny and me playing Marley.

Hang:

This is written by Debbie Tucker Green, and involves three characters and one of them is wanting to kill her husband and the reason why she called the play Hang is because she decides to hang him. I loved this play and I did a scene from this play too. The character THREE is meant to be played by a black woman and ONE and TWO have to be either two boys, two girls, or one boy and one girl.

Shopping and Fucking:

This was basically the first play that we read and I wasn't overly keen on this play because I didn't quite understand it but I think it was a good play. It is the first full-length play that Mark Ravenhill. It involves a lot of sexual violence. It involves drugs, phone sex, sex, gay scenes and is really mainly about that sort of origin.

One for the road:

This play was written by Harold Pinter and is about a man called Nicholas who is torturing a family. OneOne for the Road, considered Pinter's "statement about the human rights abuses of totalitarian governments",^[1] was inspired, according to Antonia Fraser,^[2] by reading on May 19, 1983, Jacobo Timerman's Prisoner Without a Name, Cell Without a Number, a book about torture on Argentina's military dictatorship; later, on January 1984, he got to write it after an argument with two Turkish girls at a family birthday party on the subject of torture. The play is set in a room the whole day throughout the morning, afternoon and night. 

Sing yer heart out for the lads:

This involves racism, this show was written by Roy Williams and involves the match of 2000 England vs Germany football game. It involves supporters coming to watch the game at the pub with Gina and her dad, Gina has a son called Glen who messes around a lot and gets in with the wrong crowds who also has a dad that does nothing for him.

Confirmation:

This was the play where Saskia used her monologue from which was written by Chris Thorpe and is performed by Chris as well which is about politics and can be seen as some racial issues brought in too. We watched the play of this and I really liked it because he interacted with the audience and really made you think.

The colour of justice:

This is by Richard-Norton Taylor. Kj did her monologue from this play which was a lady giving a speech at a court case. It was produced in 1999. In 1993 Stephen Lawrence who was a black teenager was stabbed to death in a racist attack by a gang of white youths. The police investigation failed to provide sufficient evidence to convict. Based on the harrowing transcripts of the public inquiry, this is a dramatic reconstruction of the first hearings which reflected the national outcry at the police's mishandling of the case. First seen at the Tricycle Theatre, London, this remarkable production received instant acclaim and subsequently transferred to the West End.