MARK: yeah, with him, I mean he’s laughing as well, see how far he’ll go... We got him to eat some leaves. JOHN TATE: So if me and Richard are mates now, which we are and all that silliness is over, which it is, and you’re on someone’s side, Danny, then you’re on your own side, which is very, well, to be honest, very silly and dangerous. Oh great! Now you're talking to Cathy?! Like, I'm not, I'm not, because you don't like what I say? And now it's Cathy?!

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But as the lies begin to escalate the group goes with it. And allow the man to be framed and it appears to work until.' This cookie is used by the WPForms WordPress plugin. The cookie is used to allows the paid version of the plugin to connect entries by the same user and is used for some additional features like the Form Abandonment addon.Chris Megson is Senior Lecturer in Drama and Theatre at Royal Holloway, University of London. He has taught and published widely in the field of modern drama, and is editor of The Methuen Drama Book of Naturalist Plays. Other works include: Get Real: Documentary Theatre Past and Present (with Alison Forsyth, 2011), and Modern British Playwriting: The 70s: Voices, Documents, New Interpretations (2012). Chimps are evil... they murder each other. Did you know that? They kill and torture each other to find a better position within the social structure. Out of the blue, one of the gang discovers Adam. He's not dead at all. He's living in a hedge, just banged his head. Eating dead animals. So, what do you do? If you could lie without flinching, corrupt without caring and succeed at all costs – how far could you go…how much could you make? Everything is much better though, I mean really it is! Everyone's working together, they're a lot happier.

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Dennis Kelly's play DNA centres on friendship, morality and responsibility in odd circumstances. When a group of young friends are faced with a terrible accident, they deliberately make the wrong choices to cover it up and find themselves in an unusually binding friendship where no one will own up to what they've done. Y'know, whatever he wants he just doesn't Nothing. So y'know, it's just been me talking and talking about how I talk too much but... but well Phil, hasn't said nothing. Haven't you Phil? And then he comes with this idea to send the cops on a wild goose chase! It's too much for some. John Tate leaves the group. And Brian made to act against his moral instincts, completely loses his sanity.'A Chimp will find itself on the outside of a group and before he knows it he's been hounded to death by the others. Sometimes for months! For years we thought that Chimps were our closest living relative but now they're saying it’s Bonobos. LEAH: Can I just say John, that we haven’t done anything. First I want to say that, but if we have, John, but if we have done a thing, which we haven’t, but if we have then we did it together. Whatever we did, we did, me and Phil, it wasn’t just Phil, if that’s what you’re thinking, if you’re thinking it might just have been him, on his own, without me, well that’s not, we are completely, I am responsible as much as he, as much as Phil, but we didn’t because – Go and eat the earth somewhere? Shall we eat the earth? I wonder what the earth tastes like? What do you think? Do you think it tastes earthy? Are we to be like Chimps? Or our closest relatives, the sociable Bonobos? Kelly seems to imply that we can choose to be one or the other.'

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Then we plant one of Adams jumpers, with the D.N.A of a random stranger on it near the scene of the crime, and we put them off our scent. What you thinking? No! Don't tell me... Sorry! that's a stupid, that’s such a stupid... You can tell me you know? You can talk to me?The characters remain in role in the interview-style sequences, commenting on the developing plot of the play and explaining their views on the events and their role in what has taken place. By the bridge, last week. A fat Caucasian male, Five-nine say, with thinning hair and a postman's uniform. Sad eyes... Softly spoken. Key themes present in DNA by Dennis Kelly are explored using a mixture of short dramatised sequences, narration and talking head-style interviews with some of the key characters. It's clear that the gang has its own set of rules, which override those of the world outside. Going outside the gangs ranks, is a no-no.'

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Oh yeah he wanted to be part of the gang. I mean everyone wants to be a part of the gang but he wanted it so bad he even ate the leaves. Big fist full of leaves, that’s not even the half of it! The plot of DNA by Dennis Kelly is explored using a mixture of short dramatised sequences, narration and talking head-style interviews with some of the key characters. None of this is the truth. It's just people saying things. It's all subjective. There's the truth, and there's what people think is the truth, and it all depends on how you slant it… The action sequences illustrate the themes by moving between significant moments and drawing out some of the key quotations that relate to each of the themes being explored.Not that I’m bothered. I’m not bothered, Phil, I’m not, it doesn’t, I don’t care. You know. I don’t... The ideas in the film could be used as part of initial work on an exploration of the themes, using the quotations and ideas as stimulus for their own presentation on one of the themes explored. You can tell me, you know. You can talk to me. I won’t judge you, whatever it is. Whatever you’re, you know, I won’t, I won’t...