[English] Suggestions for Year 11 Drama Text

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Karen

I only am part of this forum through somehow contributing something a way back perhaps related to English rather than education.  But your list covers at least five of my suggestions.  But are the year 11s open to examining how the protagonists overcame their environment?  Your list (and mine) includes Three Sisters,  The Homecoming and A Doll’s House. My list would also have included The Taming of the Shrew (until Shakespeare was disbanded) as my “take” on Katherina (Kate) was that she may have just been “tamed” as part of her strategy.  Whilst misogyny may be strongly evident in the original Shakespeare and the Cole Porter adaption, my conception of Kate is that she has not been tamed but can and will ultimately be in control through some strength.

I think that one must define strength, you have suggested A Streetcar Named Desire,  and Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? All strong but negative in the end?

Sorry but happy to have the teachers correct me on this.

Regards

Cheryl

 

From: english-bounces at edulists.com.au [mailto:english-bounces at edulists.com.au] On Behalf Of Karen Johnson
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Subject: Re: [English] Suggestions for Year 11 Drama Text

 

Chekov's Three Sisters

Ibsen's A Doll's House; Hedda Gabler

Hannie Rayson's Hotel Sorrento

Willy Russell's Educating Rita

Sophocles' Antigone

Tracy Letts' August: Osage County

Tennessee Williams' A Streetcar Named Desire; The Glass Menagerie

Edward Albee's Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Oscar Wilde's Salome; An Ideal Husband

Arthur Miller's The Crucible

Peter Whelan The Herbal Bed

Louis Nowra's Radiance

David Williamson's Travelling North

Harold Pinter's The Homecoming

 

 

 

On Mon, Sep 1, 2014 at 9:58 AM, Alice WHITE <whi at wantirnacollege.vic.edu.au> wrote:

Hello All

 

We are looking for an engaging drama text to use in Year 11 that features strong female protagonists and is relatively accessible - so not Shakespeare, not Medea.

 

Any thoughts?

 

 


Alice White

Leader of Whole School English and Literacy

Wantirna College

Harold Street 

Wantirna Vic 3152

Tel: 03 9801 9700

Fax: 03 9800 2590

Email:  <mailto:whi at wantirnacollege.vic.edu.au> whi at wantirnacollege.vic.eduau

Web: www.wantirnacollege.vic.edu.au

 


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