Playforms
Seven Scripts for Secondary Drama

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards.

Robin Rook (Author), James Saunders (Author)

9780521588584, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 28 August 1997

100 pages
21 x 14.9 x 0.9 cm, 0.155 kg

A collection of literature anthologies and reference books for Key Stage 3 onwards. These short plays illustrate different forms of drama and provide a useful link between improvisation and longer scripted plays at upper secondary level. They give students an opportunity to discover and unravel stylistic conventions in a creative and immediately rewarding manner.

Introduction
Naturalism: Dog Accident
Morality: Whose Friend Are You?
Absurd: Alas Poor Fred
Melodrama: Tricking the Trickster
Farce: Short Notice
Brechtian: The Old Man Who Liked Cats
Fantasy: Suburban Love Song
Conclusion.

Subject Areas: Educational: English literature [YQE]