Vile, Little Children -- a play

Suitable for year 6 and Key Stage 3 students, this is a play about teamwork and cooperation. All the employees of a company have been sent on a team building day. However, two of the characters are less than cooperative and eventually consequences follow.

The play is suitable for acting out in Drama lessons or reading in English classes. A performance takes about twenty minutes and can be done with no props.

There are fourteen characters with a similar number of lines each. Although all the characters have female names, you change all of these to male names or have a mixture. Because the file is a Word document, you can easily change the names before printing. Note: All the characters are adults. You can ask the audience, or the class before they read it, why they think it is called 'Vile, Little Children'.

I followed up four performances by year eight students to audiences of year seven students with workshops about cooperation and team building as part of our PSHE provision.