During the exposition of the play Edward is asked questions by the Interviewer about his daughter Verity. He explains that the birth was a little premature and that her mother wasn’t allowed to have her for the first week. He goes on to explain that he found Verity to be a difficult child who was always a little distant. He describes times when she would wander off from home, flare up very suddenly and have tantrums. Verity’s mother and father decided that physical punishment was wrong for Verity as she was a very sensitive child. When she was diagnosed with a mild epileptic condition they hoped that the treatment would help to settle her down, but it didn’t. Verity was a solitary child who was always happier playing in her own private world. Preparation: As a class or in small groups read the scene that is set in the playground at Verity’s school.

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.

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Her most successful play was Find Me (1977), [3] about mental illness, which is still used as a set text for drama qualifications in UK schools. [4] Others included Gymnasium (1972), Loved (1980), Best Friends (1984), Strike Up The Banns (1990), and Mirror Mirror (1992). [5] She also wrote dozens of BBC radio play adaptations, [6] including her 2001 version of Thomas Mann's The Magic Mountain; one of her last works, it starred Paul Scofield in one of his greatest radio roles. [1] Personal life [ edit ] 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 2016 Oxford Cambridge and RSA Examinations is a Company Limited by Guarantee. Registered in England. Registered office 1 Hills Road, Cambridge CB1 2EU. Registered company number 3484466. OCR is an exempt charity. 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. 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.

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. In an interview with Contemporary Authors: "From the fifties until my husband died in 1970 I wrote plays because I wanted to; now I write them for a living. Although I have never written 'a commercial' play, I have to sell my work. Consequently I think my plays have become less obscure (and pretentious), and I find myself more drawn to comedy. The theatre is my first passion, but I love to write for radio and would like to write more for TV and would really like to write a film." 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: 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.Use forum theatre to create an alternative ending to a scene. In this version of the scene the health care professionals take preventative actions to stop the situation escalating. 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

Find 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. 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. 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-interesturn:lcp:findmeplay0000wyma:epub:370381ac-2e4c-47a5-8312-816ddf475457 Foldoutcount 0 Identifier findmeplay0000wyma Identifier-ark ark:/13960/s2fmhh1hhsc Invoice 1652 Isbn 0573114315 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. When Find Me was originally performed at the Orange Tree Theatre it had a cast of eight, five women and three men. All of the parts were shared among them. In the script, Wymark has given the characters numbers to indicate where changes of role take place. This multi role play means that to an extent characters are representational. Actors must be willing to take on more than one role and therefore have the opportunity to display their characterisation skills. A variation of body language, facial expression and vocal expression are essential to allow the audience to understand when changes of character take place.