This revised version of Willy Russell's much loved play won rave reviews
when it opened in Liverpool in 2009. Slightly updated and featuring more
songs, it retains all the humour and appeal of the original.
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 new requirements at KS3 and GCSE (2010)
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.
Mrs Kay's Progress Class are off to Alton Towers - until Mr Briggs gets
on board. The destination might have changed in this new version of
Willy Russell's classic play, but mixing humour, lively songs and the
poignancy of the original, this drama of a class day out to remember is
ideal for Year 9 and above.