Task two of today's homework was to research Noughts and Crosses in order to develop our understanding of the play.
Noughts and Crosses is originally a book written by Malorie Blackman set in a dystopia, in which it is timeless with no location. This allows the readers imagination to run wild and also underline the fact that the themes in this book could happen at any time and, in some places, are still happening. The segregation between blacks and whites is a very known era and we hear about it a lot but I think because we learn it in such a factual way, there isn't a chance to empathies with the people that actually went through this. Making the black people superior to white people, showed that it could so easily have been the other way around which emphasises how unfair the segregation was. What Blackman has done is take what essentially is a love story, and make status and colour and hierarchy complicate the relationship between two characters, Callum and Sephy. The book itself has had many good reviews and a 4.5 star rating.
Domonic Cooke then adapted the book for theatre and directed it, this went on stage in 2007 and 2008.
http://www.rsc.org.uk/explore/other-writers/noughts-and-crosses/video-a1s4.aspx
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