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Play for performance: Ozymandias

Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students. This issue, Wonder Fools guide you through one of the five plays in their newly commissioned collection, Positive Stories for Negative Times.

Ozymandias is a play written for now, set during a global pandemic in the wake of the Black Lives Matter protests, exam results scandal and just as the first lockdown started to ease in the summer.

It's set in a town that is just like your town. It's about a group of pals that are just like your students, just like me, just like us. One night following their exam results, in the middle of a pandemic, this group of ordinary young people hatch a daring plan to do something extraordinary.

This is a play about going on an adventure with your friends. It's about taking action, standing up to power, oppression and injustice. It's a play for anyone who has spent the last few months missing being with their mates; anyone who got results for an exam they never sat; anyone who has spent the last few months wanting to do something about the state of the world.

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