Each issue of D&T we bring you a teacher's guide to a play for study with your students, written by a fellow teacher. This issue, Alicia Pope explores Things I know to be true, a set text for AQA at GCSE
Frantic Assembly, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Warwick Arts Centre's production of Things I know to be true
Frantic Assembly, State Theatre Company of South Australia and Warwick Arts Centre's production of Things I know to be true - MANUEL HARLAN

Things I know to be true was first performed in Adelaide in May 2016 as a collaboration between Frantic Assembly and the State Theatre Company. It will feature from 2022 in the AQA GCSE exam Component 1: Understanding Drama, Study of a set text. Directors Geordie Brookman and Scott Graham state that Bovell is asking us, ‘What do the generations owe each other? Can the “sacrifice now, live later” ethos of our parents’ generation ever find a happy meeting point with the “live now” approach of the millennials? As well as examining the tension of the ties that bind us and how we must face our parents' imperfections as part of our own.’

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