My son is taking GCSE Drama and he very excitedly got the script for Grimm Tales by Carol Ann Duffy and set about working out how best to stage Hansel & Gretel. Unfortunately, no one else shared his enthusiasm - stating that they thought the examiners wouldn't be impressed by panto!!! They obviously have no idea of the quality of writing that our current Poet Laureate has created. I saw Grimm Tales at the Young Vic about 15 years ago and was completely wowed by it. The staging was fantastic; the writing was brilliant; and the acting was superb. Instead he is having to do the Holocaust - a very worthy subject but something which he knows very little about.
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