1. Write a response to the text.
- What did you think of it and why?
I liked the fact that it was completely different from any other script that I have read before. The whole play is a monologue and it seems like one big poem because the lines are rhythmic.
- What is the play about?
The play is made up of a series of short stories each about different people in the east end from shopkeepers to cabbie drivers. It gives details about what life is like for them living in this culturally diverse part of London.
2. What was your favourite tale? Why?
I think that my favourite tale is east end tales 7 because of the tension that builds up throughout the scene and the rhythmic beat to the lines seems to mirror the fast pace of the scene.
3. At the start of the session you were asked about what you thought of the East End.
2. What was your favourite tale? Why?
I think that my favourite tale is east end tales 7 because of the tension that builds up throughout the scene and the rhythmic beat to the lines seems to mirror the fast pace of the scene.
3. At the start of the session you were asked about what you thought of the East End.
- What did you know at the start of the session?
What knowledge idea did you develop by the end of the session?
That the east end is quite culturally diverse and that there are areas where there are both rich and poor in close proximity.Football is apparently very popular and pubs seem to be associated with the east end. Like most places there are drugs, alcohol and violence on the streets.
4. What did your group do when you were asked to explore one of the tales?
As a group we worked through prologue and tale 1 and then split up the prologue into sections, allocating different sections to different people.We ran through it a few times trying out the east end accent and in my case failing, I don't feel accents are my strong point.We then agreed that we should sit down for the scene on chairs in a line facing the audience.Unfortunately there was a misunderstanding and we were told that our piece was too long and that we should shorten it but when it came to performing the shortened tale it ended up lasting just 30 seconds. The teacher said that he timed a small section of our rehearsal and it came to 2 minutes which was all the time we were allowed to perform in. Anyway there was a mishap which meant we only performed a bit of what we rehearsed.
4. What did your group do when you were asked to explore one of the tales?
As a group we worked through prologue and tale 1 and then split up the prologue into sections, allocating different sections to different people.We ran through it a few times trying out the east end accent and in my case failing, I don't feel accents are my strong point.We then agreed that we should sit down for the scene on chairs in a line facing the audience.Unfortunately there was a misunderstanding and we were told that our piece was too long and that we should shorten it but when it came to performing the shortened tale it ended up lasting just 30 seconds. The teacher said that he timed a small section of our rehearsal and it came to 2 minutes which was all the time we were allowed to perform in. Anyway there was a mishap which meant we only performed a bit of what we rehearsed.
5. Start a research post on your blog. You will need to keep adding to this research over the term.
You need to research the East End.
- Find out about the history of the East End.
Imran Khan’s career has developed in a way he could scarcely have predicted when he qualified as a solicitor in 1991. Less than two years later he was approached and asked if he would represent the devastated Lawrence family whose son Stephen had been the victim of a brutal racist murder in Eltham. The men arrested had the charges dropped. After an unsuccessful private prosecution and years of campaigning, the McPherson inquiry concluded that there was institutional racism in the police force. In 2012 two men were finally convicted of the murder and jailed for life.
A busy man, Imran Khan is for once in his office, nestled between high Holborn and Bloomsbury. The lawyerly, almost genteel setting is a far cry from his early days growing up in east London where he suffered himself at the hands of racists. He traces his determination to make a difference in society to that experience.
“It was every day, going to school facing the trials and tribulations of avoiding a kicking because of the colour of your skin, and you thought, ‘Why isn’t any one doing anything about this?’ You realised there is a reality that most of society doesn’t believe or doesn’t want to believe exists. Living in the east end of London with racists and football hooligans, it was a very different place to what it is now, and there wasn’t any one around who said ‘I know that reality, I want to do something about it and change it’.”
- Research some events that have happened recently in the East End.
The Hackney Empire was a technological wonder when built in 1901 which
attracted acts from all parts of the world. While Chaplin had appeared
here a few times before heading to America to gain fame and Stan Laural
had perfected his act here, Marie Lloyd was the most important star to
appear here before the First World War.
Famous both in the national press and public, Hackney Empire brings the old, black and white together to create a cosmopolitan audience every Christmas. There is a huge line of leading touring productions, world famous orchestras, international opera companies and top comedians and musicians lined up to perform here in coming seasons.
It was in December 1937 that the historic Rio Cinema opened here as the “Classic”. It was the mark of television in the 1950s that led to a reduction in audiences; so to restore enthusiasm, the Dalston Classic changed names to Classic Cartoon Cinema, Classic Continental Cinema to finally return to the “Classic” within a year.
However the Dalston Classic was once again re-launched as the Tatler Cinema Club in 1968 and went on to show blue movies and live strip shows to finally close down in 1976. It was finally in 1999 that it got a complete refurbishment to open as Rio Cinema with Grade II listed status.
Cinema that is often ignored by the mainstream is shown here. The annual Turkish and Kurdish film festivals, midweek Classic Matinees and the Saturday morning Children’s Picture Club all feature at the Rio.
It was Jay Jopling who had set up White Cube Hoxton as a second, larger gallery space in 2000 in an old light industrial building of the 1920s. It houses an uninterrupted exhibition space with free admission. This “Inside the White Cube” space was launched in 2002, encompasses two floors, viewing galleries, offices, conference space and related space and dedicates a yearlong exhibition.
A wide range of artists of all mediums like Mark Quinn, Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley had showcased their talents here in solo or group exhibitions. Hoxton boasts of a strong art community and culture, various galleries, public art space, bars, restaurants and clubs. With so many abandoned warehouses having been converted into artists’ studios and the highest concentration of artists in Europe, East London is the place for art enthusiasts.
Shortly before last year's Olympics Professor Anne Power of the London School of Economics quantified the task of improving life for east Londoners, many of whom are not loaded with loot.
She pointed out that the people there have been poor compared with those in the rest of London for at least 200 years and, referring specifically to the borough of Newham, likened the effect of London's docks closing to the devastation the equivalent loss had on Liverpool. Basically, it shut half the place down.
That's the big, forbidding backdrop against which any catalysing force - cultural, social or economic - released by last year's athletic feats in the Olympic Park needs to be assessed.
26.09.14
A German synth pop band drove in their van for sixteen hours to reach London for a series of gigs only to awake after their journey to find their vehicle and its entire contents had been stolen.
30.09.14
Drugs worth hundreds of pounds, cash and dangerous weapons were seized during a police raid in an east London back alley.
Famous both in the national press and public, Hackney Empire brings the old, black and white together to create a cosmopolitan audience every Christmas. There is a huge line of leading touring productions, world famous orchestras, international opera companies and top comedians and musicians lined up to perform here in coming seasons.
It was in December 1937 that the historic Rio Cinema opened here as the “Classic”. It was the mark of television in the 1950s that led to a reduction in audiences; so to restore enthusiasm, the Dalston Classic changed names to Classic Cartoon Cinema, Classic Continental Cinema to finally return to the “Classic” within a year.
However the Dalston Classic was once again re-launched as the Tatler Cinema Club in 1968 and went on to show blue movies and live strip shows to finally close down in 1976. It was finally in 1999 that it got a complete refurbishment to open as Rio Cinema with Grade II listed status.
Cinema that is often ignored by the mainstream is shown here. The annual Turkish and Kurdish film festivals, midweek Classic Matinees and the Saturday morning Children’s Picture Club all feature at the Rio.
It was Jay Jopling who had set up White Cube Hoxton as a second, larger gallery space in 2000 in an old light industrial building of the 1920s. It houses an uninterrupted exhibition space with free admission. This “Inside the White Cube” space was launched in 2002, encompasses two floors, viewing galleries, offices, conference space and related space and dedicates a yearlong exhibition.
A wide range of artists of all mediums like Mark Quinn, Damien Hirst and Antony Gormley had showcased their talents here in solo or group exhibitions. Hoxton boasts of a strong art community and culture, various galleries, public art space, bars, restaurants and clubs. With so many abandoned warehouses having been converted into artists’ studios and the highest concentration of artists in Europe, East London is the place for art enthusiasts.
Shortly before last year's Olympics Professor Anne Power of the London School of Economics quantified the task of improving life for east Londoners, many of whom are not loaded with loot.
She pointed out that the people there have been poor compared with those in the rest of London for at least 200 years and, referring specifically to the borough of Newham, likened the effect of London's docks closing to the devastation the equivalent loss had on Liverpool. Basically, it shut half the place down.
That's the big, forbidding backdrop against which any catalysing force - cultural, social or economic - released by last year's athletic feats in the Olympic Park needs to be assessed.
26.09.14
A German synth pop band drove in their van for sixteen hours to reach London for a series of gigs only to awake after their journey to find their vehicle and its entire contents had been stolen.
30.09.14
Drugs worth hundreds of pounds, cash and dangerous weapons were seized during a police raid in an east London back alley.
- Research some of the events from the text.
Domestic violence is any incident or pattern of incidents of
controlling, coercive or threatening behaviour, violence or abuse
between those aged 16 or over who are or have been intimate partners or
family members regardless of gender or sexuality.
Posted on 12.06.14
'Great timing – I was really pleased to hear today that the world
premiere of Phil Maxwell & Hazuan Hashim’s film, From Cable Street
to Brick Lane, an independent, feature length documentary dealing with
the fight against racism and fascism in the East End of London, is
taking place at the Genesis Cinema, Whitechapel, on the evening of 5
July'
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