KINGDOM 2 Flashback Discuss What well-known story is this play based on? Understand
1. Who does the fortune teller say will be visiting the inn today? 2. How long ago did the innkeeper buy the inn? 3. What does the innkeeper say will happen to his inn after his visitors have stayed? 4. What does the innkeeper say that the inn will now be known as? 5. What does the innkeeper suggest needs to be done with the chickens? 6. What does the wife start throwing out the windows?
Explore
1. Choose two words that you think best describe the fortune teller and explain why you have selected these words.
3 2. What is your impression of the innkeeper’s wife, having read the extract?
3. What do we learn about the characters from reading the stage directions? Explain your answer.
4. Think of a scene from a play that you have studied that was charged with emotion. (a) Name the play and the playwright. (b) What emotion was present in this scene? (c) How did the playwright convey this emotion?
Create
1. (a) Work in small groups to imagine what you think happens next in this play. Write the script for the next scene. Remember to include stage directions in your script.
(b) When you have finished writing your script, act it out for the rest of your class.
Stage directions are instructions written in a script that describe how the stage should look and how the actors should speak and behave.
