Thursday, 20 January 2011

Tuesday, 14 December 2010

guidance for GCSE Cloning scheme of work

Drama Cloning Essay guidance

Your response has to be 2000 words maximum

You must include: analysis of 4 explorative strategies: For example:

• Still image
• Narration
• Ritual/movement
• Role-play
• Automatic writing

Choose exercises from any of the lessons to evaluate these.

Your reaction to stimuli:

• The music (Holst Planets) to create the cloning movement and ritual
• Research on stem cells( the doctors and parents or automatic writing scene)

Analyse use of:

• Space/levels
• Use of props
• Language
• Characterisation

From any of the lessons and exercises:

Your evaluation of the whole scheme of work and the content /forms/plot used to analyse and explore the issue of cloning. Evaluate your own and others work.

Thursday, 25 November 2010

more examples of sprechtgesang

lotte lenya sprechgesang

Brecht on stage




Year 12 please watch this documentary to help you with your exploration notes on Brecht

Tuesday, 12 October 2010

The big Fellah information

4 STARS Critics' Choice "Jaw-dropping laughs... a big meaty subject... cracking performances" Sunday Times 12 Sep 2010. More reviews.

Young fireman Michael Doyle decides to live up to his Irish heritage by joining the IRA. He's recruited by Costello, the charismatic "Big Fellah", who wants to use Doyle's brownstone apartment in The Bronx as a safe house for an escaped killer. But it soon becomes clear that someone is leaking information to the FBI...

Set among Irish Americans in New York, Richard Bean's dark, glinting, funny play spans three turbulent decades.

A boisterous and witty story of loyalty, disillusion and betrayal.


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"a marvellously funny and humane dramatist" Daily Telegraph

Richard Bean's plays include Under The Whaleback, Harvest (Critics' Circle Awards: Best Play), Honeymoon Suite, The English Game and most recently the controversial, Olivier-nominater England People Very Nice for the National Theatre.

Director: by Max Stafford-Clark
Designer: Tim Shortall
Lighting Designer: Jason Taylor
Sound Designer: Nick Manning


Cast: Rory Keenan, Youssef Kerkour, Finbar Lynch, Claire Rafferty, David Ricardo-Pearce, Fred Ridgeway, Stephanie Street

The Big Fellah theatre trip Thursday 14th October 2010