Play for study: Missing Dan Nolan

In the OCR GCSE specification, Missing Dan Nolan is one of the plays centres can choose to study for the written exam: Performance and Response. In this exam students must consider the Social, Historical, Cultural context of the play and how this impacts on the staging of the play from different theatre makers points of view.

Missing Dan Nolan by Mark Wheeler is based on the true story of a teenager named Dan Nolan, who went missing on 1 January 2002.

Dan Nolan was 14 when he went missing from Hamble, Hampshire on the evening of 1 January 2002. The play is a non-naturalistic docudrama and is written in a nonlinear format. Wheeler uses a variety of conventions to break the fourth wall throughout the play, including still images, slow motion, monologues and movement sequences.