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She was named after an American rock song:  Jack&Diane by John Mellencamp, but her name also has ties with the roman divinity Diana: goddess of the hunt, forests, and childbirth. Diane can also be referring to the divine and mean "supplier of beneficence and wellness".
22/29yo
Middle class - No religion mentioned
Married to Pete, one 6yo daughter, expecting another child.
Started off as a Pastoral Assistant, later to be head of year 10 in middle school/high school?
Occasionally drinks alcohol, very drunk the night of their encounter
Very concerned with environmental protection awareness. --> probably leaning left politically (labour party? does she vote?)
She teaches kids about consent and healthy relationship yet she's not able to apply her advice when she's confronted with her own emotions.
Scene objective: finally confront him, get answers and apologies, maybe hope for him to still be attracted to you.
As all the other character, she is not painted either as a victim or a culprit. She seems to hold high a lot of values theoretically but fails to acknowledge them in practice when it comes to her students. Younger her is very moved by & sensitive to Freddie's situation and ends up developing feelings of sexual nature towards him.

Nathaniel's feedback: come from a more active perspective, not sorry for herself, wants answers and apologies from him. More firmness, rhythm has to be better. Be more playful in batting him away. More fire. Push the characterisation. Battle for status. Remember she comes from a place of hurt and abuse. Less regret, more revenge.

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Teacher/student relationship
Identity search
Abuse & Violence (in the family, towards women, towards minors)
Brotherly love/support
Contradictions
Duality
Class injustice
Misogyny
Unsatisfied sexuality
Regret
Dependency
Relationships
Lust
Morales
Confusion
Resentment
Internal conflict
Ethics
Power

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SRE evolution in the UK

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It was in 2012 through to 2013 that the BigTalk Education team began to observe a significant change in the behaviour of young people. This seemed to be the tipping point where access to the internet, mobile/tablet device ownership and the associated exposure to inappropriate content had swept through a generation. Starting SRE lessons in secondary schools was now too late, the young people were already misinformed. So, in 2013 the Growing Up Safe programme was introduced to primary schools.

Meanwhile Ofsted were also carrying out an evaluation of SRE and PSHE provision in primary and secondary schools. They recognised that whilst primary schools were generally doing better at the relationship side of SRE and secondaries better at the biological both on the whole were 'not yet good enough'. This underpinned BigTalk Education's vision to support primary schools with the new programme.

In 2014 an Education Select Committee inquiry into PSHE and SRE took place with the Life Lessons report in 2015 calling for SRE to be statutory, underlining the role of SRE in safeguarding children and young people.

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SRE & RSE : A History of Relationship and Sex Education : BigTalk Education

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It was in 2012 through to 2013 that the BigTalk Education team began to observe a significant change in the behaviour of young people. This seemed to be the tipping point where access to the internet, mobile/tablet device ownership and the associated exposure to inappropriate content had swept through a generation.

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"My job is to tell a story. I don’t think there’s a thesis at the heart of the play. But I think the play wants an audience to see the complexities in what appears to be a straightforward situation. My hope is that audiences will leave wanting to debate the issues with the person they came with and that each person in the audience will have felt differently about the characters and their choices and actions in the play"

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"Freddie shows up into Diane’s life accusing her of grooming him when he was fifteen.
Diane is forced to confront what she may or may not have done, all the while trying to teach her PSHE class about healthy relationships. Freddie finds his own version of events come into question. It’s about consent, and adolescent sexuality, and sexual exploitation. And the sometimes blurriness in all three."

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It is the present day. Diane, 29, a teacher, and Freddie, 22, meet in a bar. They haven’t seen each other for a long time. Freddie confronts Diane about their relationship, seven years ago when he was fifteen, and says he has gone to the police accusing her of grooming him. We are unsure of what really happened between them, as Diane leaves and returns to
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15/22yo
working class
throughout his life feels he is unintelligent and useless. Big inferiority complex.
scene objective:
confront Dianne about what happened all those years ago, tell her how he feels. You could say also to inform her that he has reported her to the police, however I may consider the fact that he may have subconsciously done this for a reason to get back into contact with her. He has been stalking her since they lost contact 7 years ago.

At 15, is a young teen who comes from a broken home, growing up with an neglectful and abusive father.
because of this, he gravitates towards the pastoral assistant at his school, Dianne. They form a close relationship, and he forms an attachment with her.

Freddie is shown through the writing as a troubled young man. Beaten by his father when he was a teenager, we never really see Freddie happy in his life. He was clearly attracted to Diane, who paid him special attention when he was her student. When he is older, we are shown throughout the play he is trying to understand what happened to him that night at Dianne's house.

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I can't seem to find an official way to describe what genre this play belongs to, so I would phrase it this way: Young adult theatrical litterature.

YA because it is the target audience and the focus characters demographic.
Thearical litterature because listening to Evan Placey's writing process makes it seem to me different than straight up 'theatre' in the sense that his writing is impacted by practical work, research and workshops.

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the play was written in 2015 and there is no mention of a date in the script. The dialect and cultural references throughout also point to the fact that it is most likely present day. The three biggest songs in the UK in 2014 were Rather Be - Clean Bandit, All About That Bass - Meghan Trainor and Happy - Farrell Williams.

here are some of the biggest fashion trends in 2015:
Chelsea Boots
sportswear
all-white trainers
ripped denim
baseball caps came back

Grime music's influence on UK culture amongst young men:
Tracksuits and Air Max trainers are to the UK what basketball jerseys and Jordans are to the U.S. - they've been ingrained in the country's cultural history for years. This could help with potential ideas of how Freddie dresses, being a young UK lad.

best selling book: fifty shad of Grey. Self explanatory. Wide teenage girl reader audience.

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The action is placed in the UK (guessing because of the terms used: innit, twat, etc..), no precision of where precisely but its a very urban environment. Post-2015 during the present day part, probably around 2007 during the flashback.
PM during the flashback: Gordon Brown (Labour party)
PM during the present-day part: David Cameron (conservative)

Jeffree Epstein Parker story came out prior to 2015--> Prince Andrew involved with underage minors so the characters would've probably heard about this case. A conversation on sexual assault and minor abuse goes on in the play, maybe originated by the media coverage around this event.
Going from a labour government to a more conservative one must have impacted the liberty of the teachers in their approach of SRE.

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Evan is a gay Canadian-British playwright and screenwriter who grew up in Toronto and now lives in London. He was a child actor and went to a drama school at a very early age, which was a liberating experience for him. Yet, he understood early on that he was better at writing and directing plays than at acting in them. He later graduated in Drama at McGill University, during which he attended the Royal Court Young Writers' Programme. He is now a Creative Writing Fellow and a Senior Lecturer at Southampton University.

His work for adults and young audiences has been produced internationally and translated into multiple languages. He more recently started writing for television and film, he also teaches playwriting to young adults and teens (NT & prisons) --> they represent the vast majority of his target audience. His connection to youth in theatre and creative writing might explain his understanding of younger characters depth and sensibility. He draws inspiration from his life experience or from the news to write but also researches a lot into a subject and reaches out to people who experienced the situation first hand before deciding to/how to use it.

Commonly found writing themes throughout his bibliography: conflict of identity, sense of self in opposition to the world, queer characters, low to middle-class characters, misogyny, sexuality, abuse and violence, often towards minors.

[on a personal reference note: his work strongly makes me think of series like skam or misfits, but following one character instead of an intricated group]

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None of them has been to this bar before - Diane chose the place where they are meeting - she is married to an older man (Pete) and is pregnant - Freddie is the one who asked for her to meet him as he wants to tell her something - he is dressed in a work ensemble that doesn’t suit him & now works in a bank- he’s ordered alcohol & she hasn’t - they haven’t seen each other for 7 years - Diane lies about her employment situation at first - she still feels very uneasy towards his appearance due to her (past?) attraction to him

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1. Facts about what exists and has happened before the action of the play (first scene) begins.

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1. Facts about what exists and has happened before the action of the play (first scene) begins.

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Diane has a child - been working ad the head of year 10 - she’s been ignoring his texts for a very long time - Freddie found work in a bank - he gave a statement to the police concerning the event of the night 7 years ago - Freddie has been stalking her daily life

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2. Questions about what exists and has happened before the action of the play/first scene begins. 

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2. Questions about what exists and has happened before the action of the play/first scene begins. 

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Who arrived at the bar first? Has Freddie been following Diane over the last few days? Is Pete really the dad of Diane's six year old daughter?

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Who of the two is the most nervous? has Freddie got a plan to say what he says before coming into the bar or is he improvising? why does she feel the need to use a nickname rather than his full name? Patronising? Does she still have some feelings for him? Is she denying grooming him out of spite, shame, self-service or does she have a different recollection of the night? Does he remember violating her consent and bragging about the event?