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Siobhan dowd

Solace of the Road: Paul Bunyan and Ruth Moore

February 23, 2015April 23, 2015Oxford English Team

Students in classrooms across Derbyshire watch attentively as their teachers, in role as ‘Lost Property official’ characters, remove items from first, a modern lizard skin bag and then a Victorian bundle and place them on a table. The contrast between items such as the furry pink purse, taken from the bag and a 19th Century […]

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Guest post: Solace of the Road

October 6, 2014April 23, 2015Oxford English Team

“I’ve just had a moment of insight!” It’s July 2014 and the studio space at Derby theatre, where we are leading Inset for English teachers, goes silent as Mike Kenny, playwright, gets to his feet in response to the final activity, “I’ve been working with Siobhan Dowd’s novel, ‘Solace of the Road’ for a year” […]

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