The Story Behind... I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die

A short study guide and oral history of I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die by Mark Wheeller. A GCSE Drama Set Text from September 2022, the book features the origins of the play and a useful scheme of work for teachers.

About the author

Mark Wheeller began writing whilst a student at Marlwood Comprehensive School, Bristol.

After teaching drama for thirty-six years he retired in July 2015 to concentrate on writing and delivering Drama/Theatre workshops to students and teachers across the world.

Mark is one of the most-performed playwrights in Britain. Too Much Punch For Judy has been performed over 6,000 times and Chicken nearly 6,000. Missing Dan Nolan and Hard to Swallow are both set texts for the GSCE Drama 9-1 exams. His work has been a staple part of the Drama curriculum both in the UK and abroad for the past three decades.

Professional productions of Hard to Swallow, I Love You Mum, I Promise I Won’t Die and Chicken regularly tour schools and many of Mark’s works are available on DVD, with digital formats forthcoming in late 2020. 

His study guides include Drama Schemes, The Story Behind Too Much Punch For Judy, Drama Club & Hard to Swallow – Easy to Digest.

He has three children and lives just outside the New Forest, with his wife Rachael, and Labrador, Dusty.

Summary

A short study guide and oral history of I Love You, Mum - I Promise I Won't Die by Mark Wheeller. A GCSE Drama Set Text from September 2022, the book features the origins of the play and a useful scheme of work for teachers.

Product details

• Authors: Annette Hulme, Mark Wheeller
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.08.2022, delayed
• EAN: 9781914228766
• ISBN: 978-1-914228-76-6
• Subjects: Children's and young people's books > Non-fiction books / Non-fiction picture books > History, politics; Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Theatre Studies, Teachers’ classroom resources and material, Teachers. classroom resources & material, Personal & social issues: drugs & addiction (Children's/YA)