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The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft

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The Wardrobe by Sam Holcroft

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£10.99

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Across five centuries of British history, small groups of children seek sanctuary in the same solid, old wardrobe. It's the safest place they know but is it safe enough?

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This plays offers your Year 9s or even your GCSE students some great chances for both original scripted and devised drama work. The premise of the play is simple: it follows a a wardrobe built in the Tudor times that has survived to the present day. We visit it at various times throughout its history and look at the different reasons young people climbed into it. For example, in one scene we see a young Elizabeth of York (Henry VIII’s grandmother) hiding in there with her sister. Or, another scene shows a group of boys from a Catholic boarding school in 1888 reading newspaper articles about Jack the Ripper. Each of the 12 scenes is set at a different time, with different characters. The one thing they have in common is the wardrobe. Therefore, you wouldn't necessarily have to study the whole play-you could dip in and out of the scenes. Each group could be given a different scene. Students could be encouraged to devise their own piece of drama, picking their own historical time and have characters hiding in the wardrobe. It would be a great chance to explore physical theatre and confine your acting to a space the size of a wardrobe. It’s a play that will spark imagination with a diverse range of characters and time settings.

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