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'Off the Wall' is a lively guide to the idiosyncrasies of Hadrian's
Wall and the communities that live at either end and along the
route. Cloud Nine Troubadours walked the length of the Wall
performing every night. The book records the journey in its raw
detail.
The plays is this book came about via the unique work done in
schools by Peter Mortimer. In each case, he worked through a series
of workshops with a group of pupils, and out of these a dramatic
piece slowly evolved. With one exception - a play created in a
Palestinian refugee camp - the first session started with a totally
blank sheet awaiting the input of the creative team. As Peter
Mortimer stresses, such a process is risky and at the start often
terrifying, but ultimately proves to be highly rewarding for all.
The youngsters helped to create the plot, characters and style, and
were often involved in costume and set design as well as producing
programmes and posters. And then they became actors. All these
plays were given public performances, often in professional
theatres. This approach gave the pupils an involvement in and
commitment to the plays which no ordinary drama class could bring.
In his Introduction, Mortimer writes about the beneficial effects
such projects can have on young developing minds, but also warns
how such work is increasingly difficult to undertake in a school
philosophy of tick boxes, league tables and inflexible curricula.
The Voyage of the Sea Dragon is an adventure story that takes a
young Devonshire fisherman on an exciting voyage to the other side
of the world. As the young man prepares his boat for sea on a grey
July morning in 1725, little does he realise that he will soon be
taken on a rip-roaring odyssey to the great Pacific Ocean with a
crew of ruthless fortune hunters. Fierce battles against North
African Barbary corsairs French Spanish, as well as warring pirates
and south sea anthropophagi; leaves the young man and the crew
staring death in the face on numerous occasions. The book describes
close combat at sea, brutality and the everyday hardships the crew
have to bear while sailing through ferocious storms. The story is
full of wonderful daring adventures, acts of gallantry and heroism.
While searching for love, Matthew discovers true love in the most
unlikely of places. With wonderful descriptions of what life at sea
was like in the 1700s, readers are given the opportunity to climb
aboard the Sea Dragon and join its crew as they chase their
individual dreams of love, wealth and immortality.
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Storm (Paperback)
Peter Slater; Volume editing by Peter Mortimer
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R189
Discovery Miles 1 890
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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Dressing Up (Paperback)
Daphne Glazer; Volume editing by Peter Mortimer
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R148
Discovery Miles 1 480
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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'Mortimer At Large' is a selection of the best columns written by
Peter Mortimer since 2003, and published weekly in the News
Guardian series of newspapers on North Tyneside.
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