A collection of influential, significant texts, each considered representative of their time period.

If you revive a play, you create a new production of it.

When you relocate from one country to another.

If something in a text is universal, then audiences, regardless of time period or circumstance, can relate to it.

When many citizens who had migrated to Britain between 1948 and 1973 were facing deportation under a discriminatory immigration system.

Why did Winsome Pinnock write ‘Leave Taking’ and how do audiences respond to it?

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In 'Leave Taking: A Sense of Belonging', pupils explore the themes of immigration and identity in the play. In 'Leave Taking: The Power of Education', pupils explore how a lack of representation in literature and other educational materials negatively impacts on sense of self.

in 'Small Island', pupils explore the themes of identity, race, colonisation - shedding light on the experiences of Jamaican immigrants in post-war Britain. In 'Leave Taking: A Sense of Belonging', pupils explore the experiences of second generation immigrants and the difficulties they face in 1980's Britain. 

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Discriminatory behaviour or images, whether on the grounds of race, gender, disability, religion or belief or sexual orientation, or otherwise.

Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Subjects which particular individuals may be sensitive to, eg, adoption, migration, bereavement or death, divorce.

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

Madani Younis, Artistic Director of the Bush Theatre, told Pinnock that he considers 'Leave Taking' a 'classic in the {{ }} of work by Black British playwrights.'

If you {{ }} a play, you create a new production of it.

In her introduction to her play 'Leave Taking', Pinnock says that she became 'fascinated' by which character?

In her introduction to her play 'Leave Taking', Pinnock says the character of Enid reflects the plight of many migrants who are '{{ }} between two worlds'.

In her introduction to her play 'Leave Taking', Pinnock says that she believes writing is 'an exploration', the 'pursuit of the answer to an {{ }} question.'

In her introduction to her play 'Leave Taking', Pinnock describes Enid and Brod's journey from Jamaica as 'physical' but also '{{ }}'.

Anyone who migrates from one country to another.

Those who migrated to Britain in the three decades following WW2.

Solely those who sailed from Jamaica to Britain on the Empire Windrush in 1948.

Who does the term 'The Windrush Generation' refer to?

They are both extremely patriotic to Britain.

They both migrated from Jamaica to England when they were young adults.

They both hide their past lives in Jamaica.

In 'Leave Taking', what do the characters of Enid and Brod have in common?

In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Brod says 'All my life I think of meself as a {{ }} subject'.

They know very little about it or their mother's past.

Del doesn't appear to be interested, even being rude about obeah.

They are both really interested in finding out more, perhaps even visiting.

Viv has talked to Brod about it and wants to know more about it.

They have visited a couple of times to see their grandmother.

By the end of Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', what does Pinnock establish about the relationship Viv and Del have with Jamaica?

In Scene Two of 'Leave Taking', Enid says of her children, 'I {{ }} a my English girls.'

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Depiction or discussion of discriminatory behaviour

Depiction or discussion of sensitive content

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