This play looks at themes of reputation, honesty and lying in a school setting. The volume provides opportunities to explore ideas of personal honesty through role play and discussion and provides lively end-material covering a variety of issues such as having a family member in gaol. The "Play plus" series provides scripts for reading aloud in the English classroom as well as for improvisation and performance work. Each play is followed by resource material: poems, extracts, photographs, original documents. These explore topics related to the script and provide starting points for improvisation, discussion and creative writing.
This book is part of a book series called Plays Plus .
This book is aimed at children in secondary school.
There are 96 pages in this book. This book was published 1990 by HarperCollins Publishers .
Jan Needle is a well known children's writer. His novels include The Bully, My Mate Shofiq, Albeson and The Germans and A Game of Soldiers. Other plays by him include The Thief, A Game of Soldiers and The Rebels of Gas Street.