Welcome to Bounce Theatre’s Things to Do in A Blackout Resource Pack. During WW2 crime rose by a reported 57%. Fraud, gang culture, looting, and robbery impacted on people’s everyday life. Along with poverty, hunger, illness, and exceptional pressure – what was home really like?
This pack will guide you through a six-week devising process exploring how we create stories, characters, develop a structure, and how to use research and artefacts as stimulus to develop your own project in relation to WWII. Each week, we will look at a different part of the devising process and explore, in detail, a year from the war. The packs are accompanied by work on the Bounce Theatre website where you will find radio plays, stories, online interactive installations and much more.
Pack 1 Teacher Aims: To introduce your students to the devising process, to lay the foundations for ensemble working, to provide context to the Second World War with particular reference to 1939.
Pack 1 Student Outputs: By the end of this pack, you will: know how to work together effectively and imaginatively as a team; have a solid understanding of the first year of the War; have created a sequence of exploratory images which can be used in your play.
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