Find Me

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As a result of setting fire to the chair the police and fire brigade were called. After a hearing which investigated the incident at Canterbury Crown Court, Edward and Jean are told that Verity will be admitted to Broadmoor Hospital under Section Sixty five of the Mental Health Act. During the play, the relationship between Verity and her mother is brought into focus. It is suggested by Edward that because Verity was premature her mother may have suffered from post-natal depression. This is reinforced in Jeans monologue: she expresses her guilt surrounding her relationship with her daughter and her jealousy of Verity’s trips with Edward. Because of my swift pace of speech when talking about Jean and Verity, it was clear that Edward was under a lot of pressure from his family. I think he feels that, although Jean is trying hard, she can be "a little short tempered." Through my tone of voice when speaking about Jean, I understand that their relationship was very strained. This contrasted with my tone used when talking about Verity; "I just want her to be happy". This gives the impression that he cares more about Verity than about his wife. When I was asked what would happen when Verity grew up, I replied that “the boys will move on, but Verity will always be Verity“ I realised then, that Edward knows that he ‘has’ Verity for the rest of her life; she will not move on, she will not be given a better home than what he can offer her. Edward understands that he is one of the few things constant in Verity’s life, and he feels that by asking for help, he is abandoning …show more content… Choose an event that you think could have been avoided. (Suggested events are the scene with Sister Moses and the Physiotherapist or when Verity jumps out of the window at the halfway house) Explore how this would have changed the events in the play, or improvise a new scene to explore the characters motivations.

Improvise a scene at a school coffee morning at Verity’s school. The parents at the meeting are discussing the events in the playground the day of the Wellington boot incident. She is survived by her four children – Jane and Tristram (both actors); Rowan, a dramaturg in France; and Dominic, who works in film in Hollywood – and by her grandchildren.

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Exploring the playIt is essential that students have a good understanding of the whole text, from the perspective of a performer, designer and director. Students need to practically explore the whole text and have a good understanding of how it can be performed. After reading the whole text you may decide to look at key scenes first. This can support students understanding of the key moments in the text and you can discuss how this affects events in the rest of the text. Some key scenes to start exploring Find Me include: Find Me is a play based on a true story set in the early 1980s. The central character is a girl named Verity Taylor who suffers with mental health problems. The play studies the effects that her condition has on her family and questions the treatment she receives by the healthcare system.

A different sort of madness, madness in the absence of love, featured in Please Shine Down on Me (1980), written for the touring company Foco Novo and seen in London at the Royal Court's Theatre Upstairs. Everything existed at a weird tangent to reality, said the critic Michael Billington, in a tale of spiritual fakery and marital angst that discussed the impossibility of unconditional love at all times. Students need to have studied the central themes of the play and consider how they impact the acting, design and direction of a performance. If you do not currently offer this OCR qualification but would like to do so, please complete the Expression of Interest Form which can be found here: www.ocr.org.uk/expression-of-interestFind Me’ was written whilst she was working as a Gulbenkian Writer in Residence at Kingston Polytechnic in Surrey in 1977. It was then performed at both Kingston Polytechnic and later at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 1977. Wymark was a member of the Royal Society for Literature and the Académie Française, an active member of the Theatre Writers' Union, and also served on the Arts Council drama panel for some years. Students should be able to identify the social, cultural and historical influences on the writing of ‘Find Me’. They should be able to give examples of how these influences are apparent within the text or can be realised in a performance.

Common misconceptions or difficulties students may have Although some of Verity’s symptoms are similar to that of a person that suffers from autism there is no suggestion that autism is the cause of her mental health issues. It may be helpful to research the condition of autism to gain a deeper understanding of Verity’s behaviour’s, however we cannot be sure that this was Verity’s diagnosis. It is important to consider the time in which the play was written and the differences between how patients were treated differently to people who are diagnosed with mental health problems now. When exploring this point is will be useful to use the following as points for discussion and research: OCR is part of Cambridge Assessment, a department of the University of Cambridge. For staff training purposes and as part of our quality assurance programme your call may be recorded or monitored. Lccn 81104289 Ocr tesseract 5.0.0-1-g862e Ocr_detected_lang en Ocr_detected_lang_conf 1.0000 Ocr_detected_script Latin Ocr_detected_script_conf 1.0000 Ocr_module_version 0.0.15 Ocr_parameters -l eng Old_pallet IA-NS-0001112 Openlibrary_edition Write a letter of complaint from the mother or father of the French family at the restaurant. Students can use the following as a starting point:Hot seat one student in role as Verity (or allocate a Verity and get the students into groups). Ask her a series of questions that enable her to explain her actions both during and in the aftermath of the swimming gala.