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Sample Diploma work

Picture
The Haunted Lift

 


On the ground floor

of this ultramodern

tower block

 

in the dead

middle

of the night

 

the lift doors

open, with a

clang.

 

Nobody enters,

and nobody

comes out.

 

In the dead

middle

of the night

 

the lift doors

close with a clang,

and the lift begins

 

to move

slowly

up…

 

with nobody in it,

nobody but

the ghost of a girl

 

who lived here once

on the thirteenth floor of

this ultramodern tower block.

 

One day, she went to play

in an old part of town,

and never came back.

 










She said she was just


going to the corner shop,

but she never came home.

 

Now her ghost

keeps pressing

in the dead

middle of the night

the button

for the thirteenth floor.

 

But when the door

opens with a clang

she cannot step out.

She gazes longingly

at the familiar landing,

but only for a moment…

 

then the lift doors

clang in her face

and her tears

 

silently flow

as the lift

in the dead

 

middle

of the night

so soft and slow

 

carries her down again

down below

far, far below

 

the ground

floor, where nobody

waits for the haunted lift

 



 



 










Sometimes

on the thirteenth floor

her mother and father



with her photo


beside their bed

wake up

 

in the dead

middle of the night, and hear

the mysterious clanging

 

of closing lift doors,

and wonder

who it could be

in the dead


middle

of the night

 

using the lift

at such

an unearthly hour.

 

In this ultramodern

tower block

there is no thirteenth floor.

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  • Home
  • DRAMA
    • Drama skills and techniques >
      • Freeze frame/ Still image
      • Mime
      • Thought in The Head
      • Narration
    • Practitoners and theorists >
      • Alecky Blyth
      • Artaud
      • Berkoff
      • Brecht
      • Dario Fo
      • Godber
      • Stanislavski
    • Theatre Companies >
      • Complicite
      • DV8
      • Ex Machina
      • Fevered Sleep
      • Forced Entertainment
      • Forkbeard Fantasy
      • Frantic Assembly
      • Gecko
      • Kneehigh
      • The Paper Birds
      • Pig Pen Theatre
      • Punchdrunk
      • Trestle
      • Tangled feet
      • The Wooster Group
      • 1927
    • Theatre Styles and Traditions >
      • Commedia dell'arte
      • Creative Adaptation
      • Docudrama
      • Multimedia
      • Physical Theatre
      • Puppetry
      • Total Theatre
    • Design Element >
      • Lighting
    • Year 7 Drama >
      • Introduction to Drama
      • year 7 self assessment
      • Haunted Lift
      • Exam revision
    • Year 8 Drama >
      • year 8 exam revision
      • Romeo and Juliet
      • Anne Frank
      • previous year 8 >
        • 8MLO
        • 8EA
        • 8NSS
        • 8DJB
        • 8AWS
        • 8SFG
        • 8JR
        • 8JS
        • 8MPL
        • 8MML
        • 8RPP
        • 8WEA
    • Year 9 Drama >
      • Devising
      • Billy Liar
      • Theatre in Education
      • Blue Remembered Hills
      • KAG Year 9 self assessment
    • GCSE Drama >
      • Blood Brothers >
        • Blood Brothers full performance
      • GCSE (year 10) blog
      • Devising
      • Curious Incident of the dog in the night-time
      • GCSE Revision
    • IB Theatre and Lit and Performance >
      • IB blog
      • IB Theatre Blog 2015-16
    • Literature and Performance 2015
    • Archived pages >
      • A-Level Drama >
        • A Doll's House
        • Response To Live Theatre >
          • The Play That Goes Wrong
          • Dead Dog in a Suitcase
        • A Servant of Two Masters
        • Our Country's Good >
          • OCG lesson materials
          • act 1 videos
        • Supporting notes AS guidance
        • Supporting notes A2
      • Trip letters
      • 39 Steps
      • Camera Lucida
      • John
      • Old GCSE work >
        • Choral narration
        • Year 10- telling the story physically >
          • Bazier- Telling story to Music
  • MUSIC
    • INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS >
      • Terms & Conditions
    • Extra-curricular music 2022-23
    • IB Music
    • GCSE MUSIC >
      • GCSE MUSIC SET WORKS
  • PRODUCTIONS
    • The Ash Girl
    • Sister Act 2019 >
      • Sister Act CAST FORM
      • SAcharacters
      • SASongs
    • Charlie and The Chocolate Factory
    • SchoolOfRock >
      • SOR-CAST-FORM
      • SORcharacters
      • SORsong
    • Romeo and Juliet
    • Olivertwist
    • SPAMALOT!
    • Sound of Music 2016
    • Concert videos
    • QuizNight
    • TheWonderfulWizardofOz >
      • wiztops
    • Cinelive- Gregory's Girl at the Barbican
    • Peter Pan 2015
    • Beauty&Beast
    • As You Like It 2015
    • Alice in Wonderland 2015
    • FAME 2014
    • Summer Fayre 2014 Performing Arts Tent
    • Lion, Witch & the Wardrobe 2013
    • Shakespeare Schools Festival 2013
    • 'The Innocents' at The Barbican 2013
    • Hairspray 2013
  • Film Studies
    • Mr. Otley's film blog
    • Best film studies youtube
    • Film Podcasts