Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.
What would it have been like to grow up in the Medieval world, or during the English Civil War? Or, perhaps, during the Victorian era or World War II?
The experience of childhood is one that has altered beyond recognition over the centuries as children's roles in the world have shifted with the times. First heard on Radio 4, The Voices of Children is Michael Morpurgo's thought-provoking new play illuminating the ways in which the concept of childhood has changed over the past 1000 years.
As the author says of writing the play:
'…I found myself on a journey of discovery as intense as childhood itself. Here was an aspect of childhood I had known very little about, the history of it, the invention of it. It is a story I have found often disturbing, and always enlightening. And it's a universal story, for each of us in their own way has lived and invented their own childhood. Childhoods I have discovered, may have changed, been reinvented through the ages, but children have not'.
What would it have been like to grow up in the Medieval world, or during the English Civil War? Or, perhaps, during the Victorian era or World War II?
Allow your students to travel back through time with this fantastic play ideal for both an acted dramatisation and a dramactic reading
Allow your students to travel back through time with this fantastic play ideal for both an acted dramatisation and a dramactic reading
• originally written for radio, and first heard on Radio 4, the play is ideal for reading aloud in class, as well as dramatic performance.
• take your students back in time. Superb teaching resources guide students through the historical reality of children’s lives from the Anglo-Saxon period to the present day. The resources contain a wealth of research opportunities, literary links and topics for discussion, as well as suggestions for staging and performing the play.
Collins Drama is a series of KS3 playscripts that actively explore contemporary issues and help you deliver exciting and engaging drama lessons.
Mainly consisting of adaptations of well-known contemporary novels by leading authors, every title in the Collins Drama series also includes extensive resource material for further exploration.
- High-quality playscripts by renowned contemporary writers are guaranteed to inspire and excite your students
- Most plays offer a large cast with a good combination of male and female roles making them perfect for school performance and class interaction
- Extensive resource material for further exploration included in every play - a great timesaving device and a way of adding further interest and context to your teaching
- A strong focus on issues supporting Citizenship and PSHE work, important for cross-curricular links
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Michael Morpurgo OBE is one of Britain's best loved writers for children, with sales of over 35 million copies. He has written over 150 books, has served as Children’s Laureate, and has won many prizes, including the Smarties Prize, the Writers Guild Award, the Whitbread Award, the Blue Peter Book Award and the Eleanor Farjeon Lifetime Achievement Award. With his wife, Clare, he is the co-founder of Farms for City Children. Michael was knighted in 2018 for services to literature and charity.