Community and family / Luke Bartolo

This series is designed for use with the Secondary classroom and allow students to explore issues in a familiar, contemporary Australian setting. Following a cohort of students from Year 7 to Year 12, the plays dip in and out of this timeline to show the clowns and the clobberers, the troubled and the trouble-makers, the self-improving and the self-deluding, and the helpful and the helpless. Teachers will be able to read through each play with their class and make use of a range of included resources to deepen and broaden an appreciation of the text's themes. In Community and Family, a Year 11 Community and Family Studies class is placed under considerable strain when Trent Papadakis is singled-out as having the potential to be School Captain. There's a rising tension at Bexley Hill High as both students and teachers alike are forced to consider the qualities of a true leader and deal with the undercurrents of racism and homophobia that no one wants to acknowledge.