CREATIVE CRITICAL
RESPONSE
Assessment objectives:
AO1 (6 marks): Articulate creative, informed and relevant
responses to literary texts, using appropriate terminology
and concepts, and coherent accurate written expression.
AO4 (12 marks): Demonstrate understanding of the
significance and influence of the context in which literary
texts are written and received.
Choosing your topic
• Clear viewpoint
• Real purpose
• Defined audience
• Linked to one or both plays from the explorative study
• Meet AO1 and AO4 objectives
• Sensible balance between being ‘creative’ and being
‘critical’
Example 1
Script for a talk to class on two very different interpretations
of your main play.
Example 2
An outline pitch for the BBCs ‘Shakespeare Re-told’ series,
describing how you would re-tell it for a twenty-first century
viewing audience.
Example 3
Script for a talk to give to the actors involved in a particular
scene outlining the challenges and how you plan to explore
them in rehearsal.
Example 4
Extract from an actor’s autobiography giving an account of
how they interpreted a lead part in one of the plays and
brought this out on stage.
Example 5
A section in a National Theatre programme for a production
of one of your plays, persuading the audience that it has
important things to say about the modern world.
Example 6
View a performance for which there are reviews. Write your
own review of the performance in which you give your own
views and provide a response to the views expressed by
others.
Example 7
Write TWO letters to the editor of The Times Literary
Supplement, one praising a recent performance of Othello
the other criticising it.