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The new GCSE Drama examination for Edexcel asks a lot of students. It includes a written examination, as part of which the students are asked to approach a script (from a selection provided by Edexcel) and answer questions linked to acting, directing and designing. Within the short time period they must also complete a live evaluation. This scheme of work will focus on the scripted element of the exam. In the exam, students are given an extract from the play and must answer five questions on it, each linked to different elements. They are not allowed to take in an annotated text, which any real director would have. This is hard work, and means that the students need not only to know how they would direct the whole play in depth, but that they must know it off by heart. Can I just say John, we haven't done anything But if we have done a thing, which we haven't, but if have than we did it together! Whatever we did, we did. Me and Phil, It wasn’t just Phil. Chimps are evil... they murder each other. Did you know that? They kill and torture each other to find a better position within the social structure. Y'know, whatever he wants he just doesn't Nothing. So y'know, it's just been me talking and talking about how I talk too much but... but well Phil, hasn't said nothing. Haven't you Phil? And then he comes with this idea to send the cops on a wild goose chase!

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The JSESSIONID cookie is used by New Relic to store a session identifier so that New Relic can monitor session counts for an application. JOHN TATE: So if me and Richard are mates now, which we are and all that silliness is over, which it is, and you’re on someone’s side, Danny, then you’re on your own side, which is very, well, to be honest, very silly and dangerous. So, Phil gets Cathy to kill Adam and I've had enough. And I finally stop talking and leave. Which, amazingly prompts Phil to talk to me for the first time. A Chimp will find itself on the outside of a group and before he knows it he's been hounded to death by the others. Sometimes for months! Even Leah can only handle so much before she leaves. It might not be bullying, but Phil's torturous silences eventually drive her away.'

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Out of the blue, one of the gang discovers Adam. He's not dead at all. He's living in a hedge, just banged his head. Eating dead animals. So, what do you do? And when Phil becomes leader, he tries to deflect the blame altogether by blaming an imaginary pervert.' Are we to be like Chimps? Or our closest relatives, the sociable Bonobos? Kelly seems to imply that we can choose to be one or the other.' JOHN TATE: No, no, no, look, there I have to, I really have to, you’re going to have to listen to me on this one, and you are going to have to believe me. Ever It appears Cathy has shown initiative. She's managed to find a fat balding postman with bad teeth and rubbed to rub his DNA on the jumper.'

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Look, we have to keep together. We have to trust each other and believe in each other. I’m trying to help. I’m trying to keep things together. You can tell me, you know. You can talk to me. I won’t judge you, whatever it is. Whatever you’re, you know, I won’t, I won’t... You’re not scared. Nothing scares, there, I’ve said it; scared. Scared, Phil. I’m scared, they scare me, this place, everyone, the fear, the fear that everyone here, and I’m not the only one, I’m not the only one, Phil, I’m just the only one saying it, the fear that everyone here lives in, the brutal terror, it scares me, okay, I’ve said it and I am not ashamed. Yes, I am ashamed but I’m not ashamed of my shame, Phil, give me that much credit at least, thank you. Then we plant one of Adams jumpers, with the D.N.A of a random stranger on it near the scene of the crime, and we put them off our scent.You know Adam, you know what he’s like, so we were sort of, well, alright, taking the piss, sort of. You know what he’s like he was, sort of hanging around DANNY: This is not part of the plan. Dental college is part of the plan, A levels are part of the plan, dead people are not part of the plan, this is not dental college. Scene 1: Mark and Jan discuss that someone is ‘dead’ and this throws the audience into the middle of the action. DANNY: Dentists don’t get mixed up in things. I’ve got a plan. I’ve got a plan John, I’ve made plans, and this is not...

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Who matches our made up description and there's even the posties DNA on the jumper. I mean, that’s impossible! Surely?! Clare Finburgh is an academic in the department of Theatre and Performance at Goldsmiths, University of London, UK. Her research focuses on French, Francophone and UK contemporary performance, notably innovations in French modern and contemporary playwriting anddirecting; and representations of conflict in UK theatre. She has co-written Jean Genet (with David Bradby, 2011), and co-edited Genet: Performance and Politics (2006) and Contemporary French Theatre and Performance (2011). A group of teenagers do something bad, really bad, then panic and cover the whole thing up. But when they find that their cover-up unites them and brings harmony to their once fractious lives, where is the incentive to put things right.No matter what the circumstance, you know the gang will defend itself. Not just from outsiders, but from itself. Weak leaders are seen as threats. And they constantly have to be on the lookout for challenges. Defiantly a victim of that. Everyone else stays calm, keep your mouth shut. Tell no one or we'll all go to prison. Just get on with things. A cookie set by YouTube to measure bandwidth that determines whether the user gets the new or old player interface. Do I disgust you? I do. No, I do. No don’t because, it’s alright, it’s fine, I’m not gonna, you know, or whatever, you know it’s not the collapse of my, because I do have, I could walk out of here, there are friends, I’ve got, I’ve got friends, I mean alright, I haven’t got friends, not exactly, I haven’t, but I could, if I wanted, if I wanted, given the right, given the perfect, you know, circumstances. So don’t, because you haven’t either, I mean it’s not like you’re, you know, Mr, you know, popular, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, you know, you haven’t, but that’s, that’s different, isn’t it, I mean it is, it is, don’t say it isn’t, really, don’t, you’ll just embarrass us both because it is different, it’s different because it doesn’t matter to you. Does it. Sitting there. Sitting there, all...