ISBN: 9781408521311
Oxford Play scripts is a powerful series of engaging plays especially selected for 11 to 14 year olds.
The series features:
- Exciting adaptation of modern and classic novels, and a range of original plays.
- Motivating activities focusing on performances, close text analysis, language and structure, together with varied creative task.
- Insights into the plays by the authors and adapters
- Notes on props and staging
Oliver Twist
The classic story of an orphan boy kept on starvation rations in a parish workhouse, who dares to ask fro more. Escaping to London, Oliver falls into the clutches of Fagin, the murderous Bill Sykes and a gang of young thieves led by the irrepressible Artful Dodger. The play comes to a brutal ending in the condemned cell, which will be both shocking and captivating to an audience. Extracts from Dickens' original novel create opportunities for comparative study of the novel and the play.
