Faction: How to combine fact and fiction to make drama Playwrights/Practitioners Getting Work is Unit 5

Getting Work is Unit 5 of the OCR GCE Performing Arts course

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The scheme can be used as a starting point for both the AQA and Edexcel AS level Unit 2

The third approach employs a different drama convention

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Faction: How to combine fact and fiction to make drama Playwrights/Practitioners Getting Work is Unit 5In a part factual, perhaps historical story, facts are supplemented with a certain amount of fiction. Who said what, what occurred behind the facts? The mixture is called faction and is necessary to make drama work. The case of Ruth Ellis, the last woman in England to be hanged, offers a retelling of events to shed light on the people and their actions and explore dramatic possibilities. Learning objectives By the end of this scheme, learners will