Rebecca Lenkiewicz is an amazing and engaging British playwright and screenwriter. She writes the most engaging and realistic characters that explore and illuminate the lives of marginalised women. Her work is great for GCSE or A Level students to explore and perform. Continue reading Rebecca Lenkiewicz
This was a play I was introduced to at a teacher conference several years ago by someone who said it was a brilliant GCSE text. They said it was brilliant, that it had revolutionised their approach to text based performances and had got excellent marks for it. To be honest it was the last bit about excellent marks that got me interested it in! It … Continue reading Two by Jim Cartwright
I love teaching A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen. It is a brilliant play to teach as it always throws up so many dividing opinions about the characters actions and motivations that the students are in constant debate and conversation about it. The story is simple but relies on a basic knowledge of late 19th Century Society and, in particular, the role of women in … Continue reading A Doll’s House by Henrik Ibsen
I love The Ash Girl by Timberlake Wertenbaker. It is a wonderful play that just speaks to teenagers of all backgrounds, experiences and situations. As a play, it covers a multitude of different issues from immigration to parental expectations via self-image, loss and relationships (and a whole lot more besides). So there truly is something for everyone in the text. It is a challenge to … Continue reading The Ash Girl by Timerbale Wertenbaker
Here is the plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream broken down into 8 manageable chunks for students to work with and mess about with. We do a lot of different activities with a plot outline like this from starting with a simple Still Image for each section activity all the way to looking for lines from the text to act out an overview of the … Continue reading The Plot of A Midsummer Night’s Dream in 8 chuncks
1804 Friedrich Schiller writes his last play, William Tell. 1812 Napoleon reaches Moscow but is forced to retreat, losing almost 600,000 men in battle. 1813 Georg Buchner is born in Hessen, Germany. 1814 Prussia invades France after Napoleon’s defeat at Leipzig. Two million lives are lost in the wars. 1815 The German Confederation is established. 1819 August Friedrich von Kotzebue, … Continue reading Historical background to Buchner and Woyzeck
