A-Levels

Our A-Level workshops are designed to give a thorough coverage of core texts with a special focus on the critical and contextual framework required for A-level. These workshops are dynamic, illuminating and creative, bringing both text, context and theory to life. These sessions aim to solidify knowledge, invigorate learning and to assuage exam anxiety.  Each session will be led by an experienced teacher and shaped around actors bringing the text alive by embodying key characters and illuminating pivotal scenes. Our workshops are interactive; we also aim to engage students in debates and there is the option to take away a pack of revision cards which has been developed by our company, see ‘Revision Cards’ page for more information.

We offer workshops on the following texts, which appear on the syllabi across the major boards. For some modules, students are required to answer questions on two texts e.g. Bram Stoker’s Dracula with Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber or Geoffrey Chaucer’s The Merchant’s Prologue & Tale with John Webster’s The Duchess of Malfi. If required, we can offer a comparative workshop on two texts.  This list is not exhaustive and we have new workshops in development, so please get in touch with us to enquire further if you do not see your preferred text here.

We also offer introductory, enrichment, and bespoke Literature workshops. Please contact us for more information on these.

 SHAKESPEARE

Coriolanus
The Tempest
Othello

Hamlet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream
King Lear 

NOVELS

Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Dracula (Bram Stoker)
The Bloody Chamber & Other Stories (Angela Carter)
The Handmaid’s Tale (Margaret Atwood)
Nineteen Eighty-Four (George Orwell)
Sense & Sensibility (Jane Austen)
Mrs Dalloway (Virginia Woolf)
Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde)
Tess of the d’Urbervilles (Thomas Hardy)
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
Oranges Are Not the Only Fruit (Jeanette Winterson)
Spies (Michael Frayn)
Small Island (Andrea Levy)
Purple Hibiscus (Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie)

DRAMA

The Duchess of Malfi (John Webster)
A Streetcar Named Desire (Tennessee Williams)
The Importance of Being Earnest (Oscar Wilde)
The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams)
A Doll’s House (Henrik Ibsen)

POETRY

Paradise Lost – Books 9 & 10 (John Milton)
The Merchant’s Prologue & Tale (Geoffrey Chaucer)
Feminine Gospels (Carol Ann Duffy)
Ariel (Sylvia Plath)