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Category>>Literature - Plays 14-16+
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All My Sons |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Arthur Miller |
| Set by NICCEA at GCSE Joe Keller knowingly sells cracked cylinder heads to the makers of Air Force planes. He later discovers that his own son was in one of the planes that subsequently crashed. |
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A Man For All Seasons |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Robert Bolt |
| When Henry VIII set up his own Church of England with himself at its head, one of the few men who opposed him was Sir Thomas More. The play contrasts More's virtue of 'selfhood' with the cynical assertion that every man has his price. |
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An Inspector Calls |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by J.B Priestley |
| "Two hours ago a young woman died in the Infirmary...she'd swallowed a lot of strong disinfectant. Burnt her inside out..." |
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A Streetcar Named Desire |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Tennessee Williams |
| This classic 20th century play presents themes of survival, death, sexual passion, madness and the haunting legacy of the past. |
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A Taste of Honey |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Shelagh Delaney |
| This edition of this popular classic play about the complex, conflict-ridden relationship between a teenage girl and her mother and the fleeting moments of affection and escape she finds.. |
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A View from the Bridge |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Arthur Miller |
| When his wife's cousins seek refuge as illegal immigrants in New York, Eddie Carbone agrees to shelter them. Trouble begins when her niece is attracted to his glamorous younger brother, Rodolpho. |
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Confusions |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Alan Ayckbourn |
| A collection of five plays, which all deal with human loneliness and hypocrisy in styles ranging from comic naturalism to high farce... |
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Death of a Salesman |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Arthur Miller |
| Willy Loman has been a salesman all his life, but at sixty he is forced to take stock of his life and face its futility and failure. His predicament gives him heroic stature in this modern-day tragedy... |
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Government Inspector |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Nikolai Gogol |
| A famous Russian comedy where a young traveller is mistaken for a government inspector. |
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Hobson's Choice |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Harold Brighouse |
| A comedy based around the battle of wills between Hobson, a hard-headed cobbler, and his daughter Maggie, who defies him by marrying his most downtrodden worker, Will... |
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Journey's End |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by R.C Sherriff |
| Captain Stanhope and his officers face the full horror and futility of trench warfare. |
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Kindertransport |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Diane Samuels |
| The best play about the pain and passion of mother/daughter relationships |
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Our Day Out |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Willy Russell |
| Our Day Out is both funny and poignant, asking what a group of back-street kids from Liverpool can expect beyond a rare 'day out'? |
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Performance Power |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Joss Bennathan |
| Performance Power resources the short performance element of GCSE Drama and develops the skills and knowledge needed for other parts of the course. |
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Spring and Port Wine |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Bill Naughton |
| When Hilda defies her domineering father by refusing to eat her herring at tea, the whole Crompton family become entangled in a row in which some uncomfortable truths are told. |
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The Caucasian Chalk Circle |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Bertlot Brecht |
| The Caucasian Chalk Circle is a parable play set in the Soviet Caucasus which explores the concepts of justice, social oppression and revolution through the medium of an ancient fairy tale. |
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The Crucible |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Arthur Miller |
| The Crucible is a study of the mass hysteria and persecution which led to the tragic 1692 Salem witchcraft trials, concentrating on the fate of some of the key figures caught up in the persecution... |
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The Glass Menagerie |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Tennessee Williams |
| Tom is frustrated in his job and distressed at home by the mental withdrawal of his crippled sister. For both of them, a set of glass figures act as symbols of the 'small and tender things that make life endurable'. |
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The Play of Animal Farm |
| Ages: 14-16+ |
| by Peter Hall |
| This fast-moving musical dramatisation of George Orwell's classic satire Animal Farm, is fresh and immensely enjoyable without jeopardising the savagery of the original material. |
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