Starter quiz
- 'Leave Taking' is a play. What are common features of plays?
- They are designed to be performed on stage. ✓
- They are divided into stanzas.
- The include an omniscient narrator.
- They are divided into acts and scenes. ✓
- They include dialogue. ✓
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- 'Leave Taking' includes stage directions. What is the purpose of stage directions in a play?
- They can establish how the audience should enter the theatre.
- They can establish the dialogue between characters.
- They can explain how the set should look. ✓
- They tell the director exactly what to do.
- They can explain how an actor should deliver their lines. ✓
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- 'Leave Taking' was first performed in 1987 and is set around this time. It is a modern play. Which century is it set in?
- 19th century
- 20th century ✓
- 21st century
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- 'Leave Taking' has a cast of five. What does the word 'cast' mean in this context?
- That there are five time periods.
- That there are five settings.
- That there are five props.
- That there are five characters. ✓
- That there are five people for each role.
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- Winsome Pinnock's first full length play is 'Leave Taking'. The title is significant. What might the title refer to?
- The act of taking a break
- The act of being forced to leave somewhere
- The act of stealing something when you leave somewhere
- The act of taking a holiday from a job
- The act of saying goodbye ✓
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- Winsome Pinnock, the playwright who wrote 'Leave Taking', is a prolific British playwright. What does 'prolific' mean?
- She has written a play
- She has been given awards for many of her plays
- She has written many plays ✓
- 'Leave Taking' is her most recent play
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Exit quiz
- There are five characters in 'Leave Taking'. Match the characters to their roles.
- Enid⇔a Jamaican born woman in her 40s with 2 daughters ✓
- Mai⇔an obeah woman ✓
- Brod⇔a family friend of Enid's, also Jamaican born ✓
- Del⇔Enid's oldest daughter, she has left school, born in London ✓
- Viv⇔Enid's second daughter, still in school, born in London ✓
- One of 'Leave Taking's' key themes is inter-generational conflict. How many generations are presented in the cast?
- 1
- 2 ✓
- 3
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- How does 'Leave Taking' begin?
- In Enid's house, with a presentation of a conflict between Enid and Del
- With Enid looking to Mai, an obeah woman for advice and healing ✓
- With the presentation of a conflict between Enid and Del ✓
- In Mai's bedsit ✓
- With Mai reflecting on her worries about Del
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- ______ is a series of spell-casting and healing traditions found in the Caribbean.
- 'Obeah' ✓
- In Scene One of 'Leave Taking', Mai says 'I don't deal in numbers. Is ______ I deal in.'
- 'people' ✓
- In Scene One of 'Leave Taking', Del calls obeah 'mumbo jumbo ______'.
- 'nonsense' ✓
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Key learning points
- ‘Leave Taking’ is set in London
- There are five characters in the play, of two different generations
- Enid and Brod moved to England from Jamaica when they were younger
- Enid’s daughters were born, and have grown up in, London
- Obeah is a series of spell-casting and healing traditions found in the Caribbean
Common misconception
Brod is Enid's husband.
Brod is a family friend. Enid's husband is mentioned in the play, but he left her and his two children when they were little.
Keywords
Leave taking - Leave taking is the act of saying goodbye to something that you are leaving behind.
Theme - A theme is an idea that is explored in a text in a number of different ways to fully explore the complexity of that idea.
Generation - A generation refers to people of about the same age. Grandparents, parents and children are all different generations.
Obeah - Obeah is a series of spell-casting and healing traditions found in the Caribbean.
Colonisation - Colonisation is when a country establishes control over another country, exploiting it for economic gain.
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