Collins Drama – The Thief (Plays Plus S.) - Softcover

Needle, Jan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0003302377 ISBN 13: 9780003302370

Publisher: Collins Educational, 1998

Synopsis

Jan Needle’s play about a boy falsely accused of stealing. The book contains a stimulating playscript suitable for classwork and school production, accompanied by resources including background material and lively activities.

Playscript – the book contains a playscript focusing on issues that are of interest in schools.

Accompanying resources contain activities for drama (including role-play), reading, writing, and speaking and listening. These are accompanied by extension material, including extracts from modern and pre-20th-century works for comparison, and documentary material. The resources are organised under the following headings:
· Staging the play
· Work on and around the script
· From novel to playscript
· Themes in and around the play
· Media

About this title

Synopsis:

This play looks at themes of reputation, honesty and lying in a school setting. The volume provides opportunities to explore ideas of personal honesty through role play and discussion and provides lively end-material covering a variety of issues such as having a family member in gaol. The "Play plus" series provides scripts for reading aloud in the English classroom as well as for improvisation and performance work. Each play is followed by resource material: poems, extracts, photographs, original documents. These explore topics related to the script and provide starting points for improvisation, discussion and creative writing.

About the Author:

A native of Portsmouth, Jan Needle has had a lifelong interest in the sea and naval history. Under his pseudonym Frank Kippax, he has published four acclaimed thrillers. Under his real name, Jan Needle, he has a successful career as a TV scriptwriter and as a writer of acclaimed children’s books. His previous novel, ‘A Fine Boy for Killing’, also features William Bentley.

About this edition

• Publisher: Collins Educational
• Publication date: 1998
• ISBN 10: 0003302377
• ISBN 13: 9780003302370
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 96