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What is Leave Taking about?
- Key Stage 4
- Year 10
- English
"Leave Taking" is about a woman from the Caribbean who has left her home in search of what she thinks will be a better life. And who realizes that the fantasy that she'd imagined for herself and her two daughters isn't actually quite what she expected. And it's about also her daughters who, growing up in England, find themselves conflicted in terms of their identity because she wants them to integrate completely. But they have this sense that there is more to them than just being young British girls, that they have inherited a history and a culture that is important to them as well as their identity as young English women. And it's about the search for that. And the way that that conflict takes these women, you know, they lose each other. And it's about them finding their way back to each other, while somehow coming to find themselves within, or define themselves within this sort of conundrum, if you like, of being, this conflict. Of resolving this conflict, finding a way of resolving that within themselves. And I think that ultimately, they find that they can only do that by actually, by going back into the past somehow, which is represented by Mai, who is an Obeah woman, who's a kind of healer. So she represents very ancient traditions. And those traditions are sort of hybrid. Like the girls are a mixture of the Caribbean and London English, Mai's practice as a healer is a mixture of ancient African traditions and more contemporary Christian practices, I think. And so, both Mai and Enid represent that aspect of the play.
What is Leave Taking about?
- Key Stage 4
- Year 10
- English
"Leave Taking" is about a woman from the Caribbean who has left her home in search of what she thinks will be a better life. And who realizes that the fantasy that she'd imagined for herself and her two daughters isn't actually quite what she expected. And it's about also her daughters who, growing up in England, find themselves conflicted in terms of their identity because she wants them to integrate completely. But they have this sense that there is more to them than just being young British girls, that they have inherited a history and a culture that is important to them as well as their identity as young English women. And it's about the search for that. And the way that that conflict takes these women, you know, they lose each other. And it's about them finding their way back to each other, while somehow coming to find themselves within, or define themselves within this sort of conundrum, if you like, of being, this conflict. Of resolving this conflict, finding a way of resolving that within themselves. And I think that ultimately, they find that they can only do that by actually, by going back into the past somehow, which is represented by Mai, who is an Obeah woman, who's a kind of healer. So she represents very ancient traditions. And those traditions are sort of hybrid. Like the girls are a mixture of the Caribbean and London English, Mai's practice as a healer is a mixture of ancient African traditions and more contemporary Christian practices, I think. And so, both Mai and Enid represent that aspect of the play.