National Theatre: All About Theatre gives readers an insight into the roles required to make a play. There are various vibrant production images, bold headlines and text boxes dotted throughout. However, there is so much colour and information on one page it is overwhelming; you can miss information and be tempted to skim read.
The overload of information aside, you may be inclined to recommend the book to Key Stage 3 or 4 pupils due to the drum revolve or set fit-up descriptions and the one sentence explanation of iambic pentameter – but those pupils would not need an explanation of comedy or what make up remover does. Surely if we are teaching how to create a knap during a stage fight those pupils will know what a script is without an explanation?
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