Faction: How to combine fact and fiction to make drama Playwrights/Practitioners pictures and information about previous

pictures and information about previous productions

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

a ghost story or a bloody tale of tragic death

the artistic director of Kneehigh

Faction: How to combine fact and fiction to make drama Playwrights/Practitioners pictures and information about previousIn 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