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KS3 Drama – Theatre in Education –
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KS3 Drama
Theatre in Education – Part 1
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Learning objectives
Adapt a short story into a Theatre in Education
play for an audience of young children.
Develop story-telling skills.
Write short scripts.
Consider the practical aspects of touring
a small-scale theatre production.
Design or select a suitable set, costumes
and props.
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Theatre in Education
In this unit, you are going to adapt a short story, called
A Sound Story, into a play for an audience of young children.
Theatre in Education (TIE), is
a way of teaching an audience
through theatre. You must
design your play to help your
audience of young children to
understand the affect of noise
pollution on people’s lives.
Your audience should enjoy watching your play so that they
are interested in learning from it.
Which stories did you enjoy reading
or listening to at primary school?
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Children’s stories
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Children’s genres
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A Sound Story
Many years ago in
a small village deep
in the countryside,
a carpenter set up
a business.
He was very skilled
at making all sorts
of useful things, but
he was especially
gifted at building
comfortable beds.
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“You’ll never sleep
badly in one of Joe’s
beds,” people used
to say. Orders for his
beds were placed
from near and far.
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A Sound Story
Joe had to employ
several more
carpenters to keep
up with the workload.
Cartloads of wood
would rumble into
the courtyard all day
long, and wagons
would arrive to carry
away the new beds.
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The noise of sawing
and hammering was
ceaseless, but the
villagers were happy
because the business
brought money
to the village.
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A Sound Story
The demand for Joe’s
beds grew so much
that he could not
make them fast
enough, even with
his extra carpenters.
It took several weeks
to build the walls, then
mechanics installed
the new automatic
saws and hammers.
Joe decided to build
a factory with steampowered machines.
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A Sound Story
The villagers were sad
to see the new factory
take up so much of
their land, but they
were pleased as Joe
offered jobs to them.
When the factory was
complete there was a
feeling of excitement
in the village.
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The local newspaper
sent a photographer
to take photos of the
grand opening, while
the brass band
played to entertain
the important visitors.
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A Sound Story
At the high point of
the celebrations, Joe
pressed the power
button in the control
room to start the
machines.
The factory sprang
to life at once: huge
wheels turned, saws
ripped through planks
and planes smoothed.
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The noise was so
deafeningly loud that
nobody could hear
the speeches made
by the important
visitors, but as they
were probably
very dull
the villagers
were not
bothered.
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A Sound Story
However, the villagers
were worried that they
could not hear each
other when they went
home because of the
sound of the factory.
They had to make
signs to communicate.
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Nobody complained
about the noise
though as they all
needed the jobs that
the factory provided.
As the months went
by the villagers got
used to the terrible
din that continued
every day and night.
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A Sound Story
Life changed in many
ways for people in the
village because of the
noise from the factory.
The members
of the brass
band put
away their
instruments
and found
other pastimes.
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Some children at the
village school were
quite naughty at first,
as they could not hear
their teacher calling
them in after playtime.
So the teacher was
forced to signal when
playtime had ended
by waving a flag.
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A Sound Story
Everyone in the village
became very clever
at showing what they
wanted to say with
their hands and faces,
instead of speaking it.
If they could not
make themselves
understood with
sign language, they
would write notes.
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No one complained
about the noise the
neighbours made or
shouted at their
children anymore.
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At first people missed
hearing birdsong in
the mornings, and the
sound of the wind in
the trees.
But the
village was
growing
richer
as the factory
prospered.
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As the years passed,
the villagers began
to forget what life
used to be like there.
The children who
were born after the
factory had opened
found it very difficult
to imagine any other
way of life.
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A Sound Story
Those children had
never heard their
mothers’ voices,
dogs barking,
or the sound of water
running in a stream.
Woof!
Woof!
Yet the children did
not miss those sounds,
as it was impossible to
miss something they
had never known.
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