The Road: Improving Standards in English through Drama at Key Stage 3 and GCSE

ISBN-13: 9781408134825 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 144 str.

Joe Penhall

Opis

A father and his young son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. Their destination is the coast, although they don't know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing but a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road.

Recenzje

Cormac McCarthy's novel was one of the best I've ever read. On reading the Penhall version it quickly becomes apparent that the desperate, post-apocalyptic emptiness of the original is unnervingly preserved whilst the sparse beauty of the dialogue does provide an uncluttered, ready-made script. NATE Classroom

O autorze

Cormac McCarthy is an American novelist and playwright. He has written over ten novels and has received the Pulitzer Prize and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction for his novel The Road (2006). The adaptation of his 2005 novel No Country For Old Men, won four Academy Awards, including Best Adapted Screenplay. McCarthy received a National Book Award and National Book Critics Circle Award for his 1992 novel All the Pretty Horses, which - along with The Road - was also made into a motion picture, the latter adapted by award-winning playwright Joe Penhall. Joe Penhall's plays include Some Voices (1994); Pale Horse (1995); In Love and Understanding (1997); The Bullet (1998), Blue/Orange (2000 - Evening Standard Best Play Award, the Critics' Circle Award for Best New Play and the 2001 Olivier Award for Best New Play), Haunted Child (2011), Birthday (2012) and Sunny Afternoon (2014). Paul Bunyan is a Drama Education consultant with many years of school and local authority experience across all phases. Ruth Moore is a Deputy Headteacher with many years of Leadership and Drama and English teaching experience.