Divided City The Play
by Breslin, Theresa; Bunyan, Paul; Moore, Ruth; Travers, MartinFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2013-03-14
Publisher(s): Bloomsbury Methuen Drama
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Summary
Nominated for ten UK book awards, Theresa Breslin's hit novel tells of how two young boys - one Rangers fan, one Celtic fan - are drawn into a secret pact to help a young asylum seeker when all they really want to do is play football for Glasgow City. Now adapted for the stage by Martin Travers, the play has already been produced to great success at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre.This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by national Drama in Secondary English experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications endorsed by national organisations and supported by teachers and consultants across Britain, each book in the series: - meets the requirements at KS3 and GCSE - features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis - places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities - will help pupils to boost English GCSE success and develop high-level skills at KS3 - will save teachers considerable time devising their own resources.
Author Biography
Martin Travers, author of this exciting stage adaption, is a dramatist based at Glasgow's Citizens Theatre where he is head of Citizens Learning and TAG Theatre Company.Theresa Breslin is a popular Carnegie medal winning author, critically acclaimed for over thirty books, whose work has been filmed for television dramatised on radio.Paul Bunyan is a Drama Education consultant with many years of school and local authority experience across all phases.Ruth Moore is a Deputy Headteacher with many years of Leadership and Drama and English teaching experience.
Table of Contents
Divided City: The PlayTeaching and Learning ActivitiesIntroducing a context and exploring a settingInvestigating the opening scenes and key ideasKey Issues - chains, links and hyperlinksCircle of Conscience - Living with yourselfResponsibility and Fear - Keys and ChainsElephant in the Room - Seeing the UnseenPlacing Texts to explore different contextsCircle of Techniques - The Adaptation ProcessPlacing the Playwright. Does the author remain?Approaching the final whistle - Layers of MeaningFrom a Divided City to . . . Revisiting the setting
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