Me, Mollser January 2016
This year we were very lucky to have a production of Me, Mollser in our very own school hall. The performance retold 'The Plough and the Stars' by Sean O’Casey through the eyes of its youngest character, Mollser, a strong willed and passionate young 15 year old girl coping with consumption against the backdrop of the 1913 Lock-Out and the Easter Rising. Mollser is a proud Dub struggling to thrive in the overcrowded tenements but having lost none of her curiosity and idealism. She sees the adults in her world with a sharp eye and even has a sense of the ghosts who continue to haunt the building. The play was presented in monologue form and was excellently performed by Elisia. The girls in 4th, 5th and 6th classes learned lots of new information about life during that time and some of the incidents in the lead up to the rising of 1916. What a wonderful performance by the Abbey Theatre!tion about life during that time and some of the incidents in the lead up to the rising of 1916. What a wonderful performance by the Abbey Theatre!
Topics covered include:
· Drama: the pupils will get to engage and respond to a piece of live theatre and avail of a session on theatre making inspired by the piece.
· English: resources are supplied with the online resources including reviewing; writing documents in a variety of styles; engaging with an historical texts and artefacts.
· History: resources include archival materials of the time and an opportunity to engage with these within the structure of a drama workshop. The topics covered include life at the beginning of the last century; the 1913 Dublin lockout and the 1916 rising.
· SPHE: resources include creating an exhibition reviewing child poverty and living conditions at the time of Molser’s life and comparing it to today and a drama workshop on the rights of the child.
