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Dramascripts: Stand or Fall
Ideal for the English classroom and the drama studio. The sophisticated themes and complex plots have been specifically designed to appeal to 11-16 year olds, and have a language level accessible to all pupils.
88 pages, Paperback
First published November 1, 2014
About the author
Brian Woolland
15 books2 followersBrian Woolland’s new novel,
The Invisible Exchange
, was published in July 2022. It’s a historical novel, set in the early C17th, and is the first in a proposed trilogy.
His first novel, Dead in the Water , an eco-thriller was published in July 2010.
He was a Senior Lecturer in theatre and drama at the University of Reading before resigning his post to develop a career as a writer, educator and theatre director. He has published extensively on theatre, film and educational drama. His book The Teaching of Drama in the Primary School , published by Longman’s (now Routledge), was in print for 15 years, before the publisher commissioned a substantially reworked new edition, which was published in 2009 by Pearson under the Longman imprint with the title Teaching Primary Drama .
He is the co-author and editor of Ben Jonson and Theatre , and has edited editions of The Alchemist and The Cherry Orchard for Cambridge University Press. Ben Jonson and Anton Chekhov are great passions of his.
He also works as a director and a playwright. His plays have been produced and toured in England, France, Spain and Germany. Five of these plays have been published – Gulliver, Away Games, Double Tongue, Stand or Fall and This Flesh is Mine. Double Tongue premiered in London, and was subsequently revived for a national and international tour. This Flesh is Mine is loose adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. It was first produced in a co-production between Border Crossings and Ashtar Theatre (of Ramallah, Palestine). It opened in London in 2014, and was revived in 2016, when it ran in repertory with a newly commissioned adaptation of The Odyssey, When Nobody Returns.
Brian’s play, Stand or Fall was commissioned by Playing for Time Theatre Company with the benefit of an Arts Council Award; and was performed in Winchester Prison in April 2008. It subsequently won a Koestler Award. It is published by Oxford University Press.
His first novel, Dead in the Water , an eco-thriller was published in July 2010.
He was a Senior Lecturer in theatre and drama at the University of Reading before resigning his post to develop a career as a writer, educator and theatre director. He has published extensively on theatre, film and educational drama. His book The Teaching of Drama in the Primary School , published by Longman’s (now Routledge), was in print for 15 years, before the publisher commissioned a substantially reworked new edition, which was published in 2009 by Pearson under the Longman imprint with the title Teaching Primary Drama .
He is the co-author and editor of Ben Jonson and Theatre , and has edited editions of The Alchemist and The Cherry Orchard for Cambridge University Press. Ben Jonson and Anton Chekhov are great passions of his.
He also works as a director and a playwright. His plays have been produced and toured in England, France, Spain and Germany. Five of these plays have been published – Gulliver, Away Games, Double Tongue, Stand or Fall and This Flesh is Mine. Double Tongue premiered in London, and was subsequently revived for a national and international tour. This Flesh is Mine is loose adaptation of Homer’s Iliad. It was first produced in a co-production between Border Crossings and Ashtar Theatre (of Ramallah, Palestine). It opened in London in 2014, and was revived in 2016, when it ran in repertory with a newly commissioned adaptation of The Odyssey, When Nobody Returns.
Brian’s play, Stand or Fall was commissioned by Playing for Time Theatre Company with the benefit of an Arts Council Award; and was performed in Winchester Prison in April 2008. It subsequently won a Koestler Award. It is published by Oxford University Press.
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