Pearson Edexcel adds four BME playwrights to GCSE drama text list
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GCSE drama students will have greater access to black and minority ethnic (BME) playwrights from September after one of the country’s largest education companies has introduced four new texts.
Pearson, which owns UK exam board Edexcel, has joined forces with the London Theatre Consortium (LTC), which includes 14 of the capital’s theatres, as part of efforts to “decolonise” the curriculum.
From September this year, pupils taking Edexcel’s GCSE drama qualification will be able to study a more diverse selection of texts, including Bola Agbaje’s play about race identity and youth culture Gone Too Far! and the North Korean-based drama The Free9 by In-Sook Chappell.