What's in the Teaching Folder?
This folder offers comprehensive teaching ideas and a wealth of photocopiable student handouts to help you teach this substantial play text and make your planning load easier. It encourages the students to look at the text from an acting, directing and design perspective.

The folder will allow you to teach this text in its entirety. It covers the play sequentially, act by act and will provide you with a variety of practical and theory-based activities. The folder guides students through analysis of the play, prompting them to research and discuss key themes, the play’s, ways in which the playwright has been influenced by the world around them, the playwright’s background, style and influences, key issues and ideas, practical exploration of the text, evaluations of directorial interpretations of the text and twenty first century audience expectations.

The folder encourages in depth character analysis of all the major characters including directorial impressions of the main character/s, their functions, comparing key characters, practical exploration of characters and examining the playwright’s intentions behind key characters. Students will be encouraged to adopt their own unique directorial view of major characters, scenes and styles as well as being encouraged to approach the play from the perspective of a designer and performer.