Sabrina Mahfouz Adaptation
Noughts & Crosses
Eduqas GCSE Drama
How to use these examples: distinguish evidence from the prescribed adaptation, documented production choices and your own defensible interpretation. Unless explicitly labelled otherwise, staging ideas are possibilities rather than board requirements.
Study the play
Reading, performance and designDirectorial concept builder
Choose a coherent staging language, then test it against the prescribed adaptation and the exact moment you are answering.
Dystopian Surveillance: Create an oppressive contemporary world using live-feed imagery, controlled movement and a tightly monitored performance space. Treat this as one possible interpretation, not a requirement of the Mahfouz adaptation.