Creative Critical Response

1. Creative Critical Response Assessment objectives: AO1 (6 marks): Articulate creative, informed and relevant responses to literary texts, using appropriate terminology and concepts, and coherent accurate written expression. AO4 (12 marks): Demonstrate understanding of the significance and influence of the context in which literary texts are written and received.

2. Choosing your topic • Clear viewpoint • Real purpose • Defined audience • Linked to one or both plays from the explorative study • Meet AO1 and AO4 objectives • Sensible balance between being ‘creative’ and being ‘critical’

3. Example 1 Script for a talk to class on two very different interpretations of your main play.

4. Example 2 An outline pitch for the BBCs ‘Shakespeare Re-told’ series, describing how you would re-tell it for a twenty-first century viewing audience.

5. Example 3 Script for a talk to give to the actors involved in a particular scene outlining the challenges and how you plan to explore them in rehearsal.

6. Example 4 Extract from an actor’s autobiography giving an account of how they interpreted a lead part in one of the plays and brought this out on stage.

7. Example 5 A section in a National Theatre programme for a production of one of your plays, persuading the audience that it has important things to say about the modern world.

8. Example 6 View a performance for which there are reviews. Write your own review of the performance in which you give your own views and provide a response to the views expressed by others.

9. Example 7 Write TWO letters to the editor of The Times Literary Supplement, one praising a recent performance of Othello the other criticising it.