PLAYS FOR YOUNG PEOPLE
Published by Methuen Drama
Want more drama diversity? Four plays to consider. We now live in diverse, multicultural communities and need plays which reflect that to use in drama and English lessons. That is why Pearson Edexel, the UK’s largest examining body, has spent five years committedly looking for ways of expanding the list of specified texts for GCSE drama to include plays by global majority playwrights.
GCSE specifications always require students to study some pre-20 century work, so two of Pearson’s four new plays tick that series.