The Facility and Other Texts – Re-imagining Antigone (EMC Cultural Conversations) (Hard copy)

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About The Facility and Other Texts

The Facility and Other Texts – Re-imagining Antigone is a collection of specially-commissioned new writing for KS3 by poets Valerie Bloom and Inua Ellams, short story writers Phoebe Roy and Barbara Bleiman and playwright Sarah Hehir, inspired by, and in conversation with, Sophocles’ play Antigone. Part of our EMC Mixed Basket Offer.

Additional Material

The Facility and Other Texts – Re-imagining Antigone includes additional material. These can be downloaded directly from this web page (see right).

Click the link (right) to download: Resource 1 – Teaching The Facility (PDF), including:

• An introduction to Sophocles’ play, with some exploration of its enduring impact
• Ways in which it has been adapted over time
• The nature of tragedy and myth 
• Ways of exploring critically and creatively with the original texts
• Drama approaches 
• Suggestions for how students might write their own text.