Alice's WarSingle facilitated 'talking head' performance and workshops Ten year old Alice is evacuated from her East London home to an isolated farm in Devon. She is accompanied by her cousin Louise but they have little in common and Alice is extremely lonely.
Before the war, Alice’s mother worked in a factory on the Old Kent Road. Now she makes munitions. Her father worked in the docks and is now a tail gunner on a Lancaster bomber. Alice fears that both are in danger and she longs to see them again. Her only contact with them is occasional letters; her only comfort, a simple wooden plane her father helped her to build. Alice is mad on flying.One night, Alice dreams that her toy plane has become real and she flies to London. She is aiming for the East End and her mother, but an air raid forces her to land near Holborn and she spends the night in the underground shelter, returning to the farm before daybreak. Her second dream takes her over Germany where she joins her father briefly before returning home. In her third and final dream she returns to her East End home, witnessing for herself the bomb damage and spending the night with her mother in the Anderson shelter has mother has built herself. Workshops: Guided drama based exercises and visualization will lead pupils to a greater understanding of the experiences and emotions of both those children who were evacuated and those who stayed behind. Pupils will learn a little about the differences between life on the farm, with its more plentiful food and in a London of rations and carrots grown on the roof of an Anderson shelter. Ideas will be provided for follow on exercises covering creative and informative writing, art, DT and health awareness. Suitable for: Key Stage 2 Curriculum: In addition to contributing directly to the History curriculum, this piece will also help in the work of delivering Creativity across the Curriculum, including Literacy, Art, DT and PSHE. Return from
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