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Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays. Other works include: Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (with Alison Forsyth, 2011), and Modern British Playwriting: The 70s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (2012). Oh yeah he wanted to be part of the gang. I mean everyone wants to be a part of the gang but he wanted it so bad he even ate the leaves. Big fist full of leaves, that’s not even the half of it! Scene 2: Leah is still trying to gain Phil’s attention. This time she talks about the nature of happiness. She shows him a Tupperware container and says it is Jerry. She describes how she has killed him. Do I disgust you? I do. No, I do. No don’t because, it’s alright, it’s fine, I’m not gonna, you know, or whatever, you know it’s not the collapse of my, because I do have, I could walk out of here, there are friends, I’ve got, I’ve got friends, I mean alright, I haven’t got friends, not exactly, I haven’t, but I could, if I wanted, if I wanted, given the right, given the perfect, you know, circumstances. So don’t, because you haven’t either, I mean it’s not like you’re, you know, Mr, you know, popular, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, but that’s, that’s different, isn’t it, I mean it is, it is, don’t say it isn’t, really, don’t, you’ll just embarrass us both because it is different, it’s different because it doesn’t matter to you. Does it. Sitting there. Sitting there, all... Scene 3: Adam is alive and has been living in a hedge. He has survived by living off dead animals. He has clearly sustained a head injury. Phil instructs Jan, Mark and Lou to leave and not say anything. He shows Cathy how to kill Adam by tying a plastic bag around Brian’s head (who is by not on medication and is clearly losing his mind). Leah begs him not to do this.

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You’re not scared. Nothing scares, there, I’ve said it; scared. Scared, Phil. I’m scared, they scare me, this place, everyone, the fear, the fear that everyone here, and I’m not the only one, I’m not the only one, Phil, I’m just the only one saying it, the fear that everyone here lives in, the brutal terror, it scares me, okay, I’ve said it and I am not ashamed. Yes, I am ashamed but I’m not ashamed of my shame, Phil, give me that much credit at least, thank you.By the bridge, last week. A fat Caucasian male, Five-nine say, with thinning hair and a postman's uniform. Sad eyes... Softly spoken. Chimps are evil... they murder each other. Did you know that? They kill and torture each other to find a better position within the social structure. It appears Cathy has shown initiative. She's managed to find a fat balding postman with bad teeth and rubbed to rub his DNA on the jumper.' Can I just say John, we haven't done anything But if we have done a thing, which we haven't, but if have than we did it together! Whatever we did, we did. Me and Phil, It wasn’t just Phil.

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RICHARD: I’m just saying. I’m just saying, I’ve just walked in here. I’ve been with these two. I’ve walked all the way from school with these two, with him crying and with her being weird, and I’ve just walked in here and I’ve got you threatening me, you shouldn’t threaten me, you shouldn’t threaten me, John. Finally, Kelly uses his brightest character to get us to contemplate "what is the nature of being human?" I sometimes think you're not human. I sometimes think I wonder, what would you do if I killed myself right here in front of you? What would you do? What would you do Phil?! I kind of wonder if people have always behaved like this? DANNY: This is not part of the plan. Dental college is part of the plan, A levels are part of the plan, dead people are not part of the plan, this is not dental college.It's clear that the gang has its own set of rules, which override those of the world outside. Going outside the gangs ranks, is a no-no.' No matter what the circumstance, you know the gang will defend itself. Not just from outsiders, but from itself. Weak leaders are seen as threats. And they constantly have to be on the lookout for challenges. Defiantly a victim of that. MARK: yeah, with him, I mean he’s laughing as well, see how far he’ll go... We got him to eat some leaves. This cookie is used by the WPForms WordPress plugin. The cookie is used to allows the paid version of the plugin to connect entries by the same user and is used for some additional features like the Form Abandonment addon.

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You know Adam, you know what he’s like, so we were sort of, well, alright, taking the piss, sort of. You know what he’s like he was, sort of hanging around Everything is much better though, I mean really it is! Everyone's working together, they're a lot happier.DANNY: Dentists don’t get mixed up in things. I’ve got a plan. I’ve got a plan John, I’ve made plans, and this is not... Cathy doesn't care, she's too busy running things. You wouldn’t believe how thingshave got. Phil, she's insane! She cut a first years finger off! That’s what they say anyway. Doesn't that bother you? Aren’t you bothered?! The new GCSE Drama examination for Edexcel asks a lot of students. It includes a written examination, as part of which the students are asked to approach a script (from a selection provided by Edexcel) and answer questions linked to acting, directing and designing. Within the short time period they must also complete a live evaluation. This scheme of work will focus on the scripted element of the exam. In the exam, students are given an extract from the play and must answer five questions on it, each linked to different elements. They are not allowed to take in an annotated text, which any real director would have. This is hard work, and means that the students need not only to know how they would direct the whole play in depth, but that they must know it off by heart.

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Visit www.oberonbooks.com to read more about all our books and to buy them. You will also find features, author interviews and news of any author events, and you can sign up for e-newsletters so that you’re always first to hear about our new releases.Everyone else stays calm, keep your mouth shut. Tell no one or we'll all go to prison. Just get on with things. After a bullying incident goes wrong, the ties which bind a group of teenagers are tested to the limit.' Scene 1: The audience learn that someone is ‘not going’…this is a reference to Brian not going to the police station JOHN TATE: Because if you’ve got a side that means you’re not on my side and if you’re not on my side that means you’re setting yourself up against me and I thought we’d got over all that silliness. It's too much for some. John Tate leaves the group. And Brian made to act against his moral instincts, completely loses his sanity.'