It’s already the month of March and the stress for the year 11’s is constantly increasing. They need all the help and support they can receive from their schools and teachers to go ahead and ace these exams even after the pandemic.

An academy in West London has decided to go ahead and bring the Globe Players to do a play for An Inspector Calls and Macbeth as both plays are a part of the GCSE English Literature syllabus. The English teachers decided to do this idea for both the year 11’s and the year 10’s as they will also need this in the following year of 2023. Both plays included 4 people acting out the characters (even if there were more than 4 characters)

When the students were asked about the play’s response, they replied with- ‘there were a lot of funny parts that let me remember some scenes properly’ and ‘I think this really helped me for my exams’.

In the classic Shakespearean play of Macbeth, there were four main characters in which they added some humorous scenes. Alongside these scenes, the actors also decided to slightly narrate the storyline so that the old Elizabethan English language used for the play was also understood by the audience/students. This also made the storyline intriguing for the students and made the students wanting to pay attention to it even more. The actors fully engaged with the audience by ‘choosing’ the teachers and students to be a representation of a character in a line and the actors also fully stayed in character throughout the plays.

And so the J.B Priestley classic- An Inspector calls had very high expectations after the first play;the actors went ahead and exceeded these expectations. The play has 6 main characters however there were only 4 professional actors. This once again added a humorous scene as the actors improvised and made one actor play 3 male characters (on purpose) while changing their voice and features for the different characters.

Although it was a tiring day for the actors, their effort was not disregarded and definitely paid off. Their effort allowed the year 10’s and year 11’s to be more confident with their plays for GCSE English Literature. Their acting skills were much appreciated, and these 2 plays were finished off with a HUGE round of applause for all the exceptional actors while they bowed with glee.