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You can use these playscripts as a model for students to follow when writing other scenes basedon different parts of the same story or of other stories.Student groups could – in this way – build up a playscript of a whole Oxford reader story, scene byscene, which could then be put together and performed as a complete play.See below some notes that can help your students make changes to a book when they dramatizeit.They can:• Change the storybook action, or the order of storybook actions, when these aren’t easy toshow on stage.• Make things in a storybook that are difficult to show onstage happen offstage, and havecharacters on stage describe them.• Add extra scenes which are not shown in the storybook, but which we imagine happened inthe story, to make the dramatization easier to follow.• Add extra dialogue to make things more dramatic.• Make two storybook scenes into one scene to keep things simple.• Miss out a storybook scene and make characters in a later scene describe what happened inthe earlier missing scene.They sometimes need to:• Change – or add to – storybook characters’ words to make the meaning of the dialogue,and the situation, clear to the audience. (There are no storybook pictures or author’sexplanations to help them.)• Add the name of the person a storybook character is talking to in the dialogue, so theaudience knows who is who in a scene.• Give names to unnamed storybook characters to make the cast list and stage directionseasier to understand. (We can research these names on the Internet when this is awell-known, or factual, story. With a fictional story we can invent names, or choose likelynames. Sometimes we can invent a likely name for a small character in a true story too.)• Add extra dialogue which in the storybook is not given word by word, but only described usingreporting verbs.Storybook characters can:• Speak their thoughts directly to the audience when they are thinking in a scene. However, alot of ‘thinking aloud’ in a scene can be boring, or seem unnatural. For this reason sometimeswe can add an extra character to the scene, so that a character who is thinking a lot hassomebody to tell their thoughts to.• Describe where they are, to show the setting on an empty stage, without needing anyscenery.

Would you like to share your ‘Dickens School of Drama’ experience with us?If the answer is ‘YES’, get your students ready to perform one of the playscripts shown on this site(Nicholas Nickleby or Hard Times).Record it and send the video to participa@oupe.es and we will upload it at www.oupe.es.Don’t forget to fill in the downloadable form and send it together with the video.Oxford has a special gift for your class: three Oxford graded readers written by Dickens,only for the first ten videos received.Titles subject to availabilityWe are sure you will become a great stage manager and your students will look forward to showingoff their performance skills!

SCENE FROM NICHOLAS NICKLEBYCASTSTORYTELLERKATE NICKLEBY, Nicholas Nickleby’s sisterJOHN BROWDIE, Nicholas’s friend from YorkshireTILDA BROWDIE, John Browdie’s wifeMRS NICKLEBY, Nicholas’s motherNICHOLAS NICKLEBY, a kind young manSMIKE, Nicholas’s friend from Dotheboys Hall SchoolMR SNAWLEY, Ralph Nickleby’s friendRALPH NICKLEBY, Nicholas’s uncleWACKFORD SQUEERS, the owner of Dotheboys Hall School, YorkshirePROPStablesix chairssix plates,knives, and forkswatchSCENE 1: THE NICKLEBYS’ LITTLE HOUSE IN BOWSTORYTELLER: When John Browdie and his wife, Tilda, were visiting London,Nicholas Nickleby asked them to dinner with his mother, his sister Kate, andSmike.NICHOLAS NICKLEBY, KATE, MRS NICKLEBY and SMIKE are sitting at the dinnertable with JOHN BROWDIE, and his wife, TILDA.KATE NICKLEBY: Would you like something more to eat, John?JOHN BROWDIE: No thanks. I’m full, Kate.KATE NICKLEBY: And you, Tilda?TILDA BROWDIE: Oh, no, Kate. I couldn’t eat anything more, thanks.MRS NICKLEBY: Well thank you once more for treating Nicholas so kindly inYorkshire, Mr Browdie.JOHN BROWDIE: Not at all, Mrs Nickleby. (to the AUDIENCE) That’s the tenth timeshe’s said that this evening! (to MRS NICKLEBY) It was the least that I could do.NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: And thanks again, John, for helping Smike to escapefrom Wackford Squeers when he caught him and took him to that inn in NorthLondon.SMIKE: Yes, thanks for that, Mr Browdie.JOHN BROWDIE: There’s no need to thank me. I enjoyed it.TILDA BROWDIE: Me too. Mr Squeers was so angry when he found that youweren’t in the locked room where he left you, Smike.SMIKE: Really?page 1 (of 2)DOMINOES

SCENE FROM NICHOLAS NICKLEBYJOHN BROWDIE: (laughing) Oh, yes! He looked at the screwdriver and the lock by the opendoor, and the empty bed, and his face went bright red, and he jumped up and down andshouted a lot. It was so funny. Tilda and me laughed about it for hours. Stupid old man.Everyone at the table laughs, and SMIKE laughs more than the others.JOHN BROWDIE: Now, what’s the time, Nicholas?NICHOLAS NICKLEBY looks at his watch.NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: It’s eleven o’clock, John.JOHN BROWDIE: Is it really? Then it’s time for Tilda and me to be leaving you. We go backto Yorkshire early tomorrow morning. Thanks for a wonderful dinner.TILDA BROWDIE: Yes, thank you all.Suddenly there is a knock at the door.MRS NICKLEBY: Who can that be so late? I’ll go and see.MRS NICKLEBY goes off. She comes back on at once with RALPH NICKLEBY, WACKFORDSQUEERS, and MR SNAWLEY.JOHN BROWDIE: (surprised) Well, look who’s here!MRS NICKLEBY: It’s your uncle, Nicholas, with his friend Mr Squeers. I don’t know thename of the other gentleman.MR SNAWLEY: (hurriedly) It’s Mr Snawley!MRS NICKLEBY: Oh, right. Mr Snawley. (worried) I’m sorry Nicholas, but they all pushedpast me when I opened the door. I couldn’t stop them!NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: Don’t worry, mother. They won’t be here for long.RALPH NICKLEBY: Now listen. I’ve got something important to say to you all!NICHOLAS NICKLEBY: (angrily) You have nothing to say to us, and we have nothing to sayto you, uncle!JOHN BROWDIE: Wait, Nicholas. Let’s hear what he has to say.WACKFORD SQUEERS: (excitedly) Yes, listen. You’ll find it very interesting!RALPH NICKLEBY: (importantly) Thank you, Mr Squeers. I’m sure that they will.page 2 (of 2)DOMINOES

SCENE FROM HARD TIMESCASTSTORYTELLERMR GRADGRINDMR M’CHOAKUMCHILD \´m"tS´Uk´mÆtSaIld\,a schoolteacher at Mr Gradgrind’s schoolSISSY JUPE, as a schoolgirlBITZER, as a schoolboy1st SCHOOLGIRL2nd SCHOOLGIRL1st SCHOOLBOY2nd SCHOOLBOYPROPSsix chairssix desksSCENE 1: THE SCHOOLROOM IN MR GRADGRIND’S SCHOOLSTORYTELLER: Mr Thomas Gradgrind is visiting his school in Coketown to seehow the teacher, Mr M’Choakumchild, is teaching the children there.BITZER and THE SCHOOLBOYS are sitting at three desks on the right. SISSY JUPEand THE SCHOOLGIRLS are sitting at three desks on the left. MR GRADGRIND andMR M’CHOAKUMCHILD are standing in the middle of the class, facing the audience.MR GRADGRIND: Give these children facts, Mr M’Choakumchild. Only facts. That’show I teach my own children at home, and that’s how I want you to teach thechildren in my school.MR M’CHOAKUMCHILD: Yes, Mr Gradgrind. Of course.MR GRADGRIND: (pointing at SISSY JUPE) You, girl!SISSY JUPE: Yes, sir?MR GRADGRIND: What’s your name?SISSY JUPE: Sissy Jupe, sir.MR GRADGRIND: Sissy is not a name, girl. Call yourself Cecilia.SISSY JUPE: But my father calls me Sissy.All the other SCHOOLCHILDREN laugh.MR GRADGRIND: Then tell him that he mustn’t. What is your father, girl?SISSY JUPE: He’s a clown in the circus, sir. The horse-riding circus.MR GRADGRIND: Say no more. We don’t want to learn about circuses here.(turning to the other SCHOOLCHILDREN) Now let me ask you, boys and girls,would you like to have paper on your walls with pictures of horses on it?SISSY, 1st SCHOOLBOY, and 1st SCHOOLGIRL: Yes, sir!page 1 (of 2)DOMINOES

SCENE FROM HARD TIMESBITZER, 2nd SCHOOLBOY, and 2nd SCHOOLGIRL: No, sir!MR GRADGRIND: (angrily) Who said ‘yes’? Of course you wouldn’t!1st SCHOOLBOY: Why not, sir?MR GRADGRIND: Why not, boy? Because you never in fact see horses walking up anddown the sides of rooms. Do you, boy?1st SCHOOLBOY: No, sir.MR GRADGRIND: And would you like to have a carpet with pictures of flowers on it inyour house? Jupe, what do you think?SISSY JUPE: Yes, sir, I would.MR GRADGRIND: Would you? Do you want to walk all over them with your shoes, andput tables and chairs on them?SISSY JUPE: Yes, sir. Why not? You can’t hurt flowers on a carpet. And I like flowers, sir.They’re nice and pretty and my idea is …MR GRADGRIND: Ah! That’s the problem. You must never have ideas, Cecilia Jupe.Never. Now who can tell me what you must have? Bitzer, can you?BITZER: Yes, sir. You must have facts, sir.MR GRADGRIND: Very good, Bitzer. (looking at all the SCHOOLCHILDREN) Soremember, boys and girls, you must not have anything that you cannot, in fact, seein the real world: no horses on your walls, and no flowers on your floors. Facts, onlyfacts. That is what important in life. Do you understand?ALL THE SCHOOLCHILDREN: Yes, sir.MR GRADGRIND: Very good. And don’t forget it. Now, Mr M’Choakumchild, I’mleaving for Stone Lodge. You can begin your lesson.MR M’CHOAKUMCHILD: Yes, Mr Gradgrind. Thank you. I will.MR GRADGRIND goes off.page 2 (of 2)DOMINOES

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