Charity and Change (Bexley Hill High School Plays)

The Bexley Hill High School plays are 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 Charity and Change, a Year 9 English class finds itself split between two teachers with very different teaching styles. Tasked with creating their own charity presentations, a diverse collection of students find themselves facing a range of challenges. Can they stand up in front of their peers? Can they rise above their personal baggage? Can they work together?