Noughts and Crosses: Oxford Modern Playscripts

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Jude shares that their next task is to kidnap Sephy Hadley, who’s home from boarding school for the first time. Dad is enraged when he learns the police don’t have Jude, but there’s no way to take back his confession. At the same time, Sephy's mother Jasmine takes sleeping pills in an attempt to end her life (though Kamal Hadley and others seem to think it was just to get attention).

Dominic Cooke's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the bestselling novel by Malorie Blackman.

Three years before the main story begins, he and Lynette were beaten almost to death by noughts for being in an interracial relationship. She also made history by being the first Black person to ever work on the television show Doctor Who. The next day, Andrew, Jude, and three other members of the cell, Morgan, Leila, and Pete, leave to deliver more demands to Mr.

She is a Cross, dark-skinned, wealthy, and privileged; he is a nought, the light-skinned lower class that was once enslaved by Crosses.Dick imagines what might have happened had the Axis alliance won World War II, while Ward Moore’s novel Bring the Jubilee is about the Confederacy winning the Civil War. Sephy is extremely disturbed by the day’s events—and is then confused when she learns Mother paid the McGregors’ legal fees. Sephy is the only Cross to attend Lynette’s funeral, but her presence isn’t well-received; Dad and Jude both tell her to leave.

Along with Jude, he’s the only one to survive and escape arrest after the disastrous attempt to pick up Mr. Since starting to publish in 1990, Blackman has published a number of novels for adults and children, short stories, picture books, and early chapter books, in addition to writing for film, radio, and the stage.Five white men murdered Lawrence while he was waiting for a bus in London, and though witnesses contacted the police with information about the perpetrators in the days following the incident, the police didn’t arrest anyone for weeks. Sephy is thrilled to see her friend every day, but meeting in public turns out to be more complex than she’d expected. After an especially heated argument, Ryan McGregor explains to his sons that Lynny is like this because she was beaten nearly to death by a group of nought men who found out she was dating a Cross.