Noughts and Crosses: Oxford Modern Playscripts

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After Sephy attempts to sit with the noughts at lunch, she, Lola, and Joanne brutally beat Sephy up. Though Minnie initially agrees to keep Sephy’s pregnancy a secret, she ultimately tells Mother and Mr.

The activities outlined develop an understanding of the characters, plot and themes for the opening Act. She is a Cross, dark-skinned, wealthy, and privileged; he is a nought, the light-skinned lower class that was once enslaved by Crosses. Matthew Henson, the Black co-discoverer of the geographic North Pole, was also the first Black member of the prestigious Explorers Club (and more recently, in 2021, had a lunar crater named after him).The next day, Andrew, Jude, and three other members of the cell, Morgan, Leila, and Pete, leave to deliver more demands to Mr. At the same time, Sephy's mother Jasmine takes sleeping pills in an attempt to end her life (though Kamal Hadley and others seem to think it was just to get attention). He climbs up to her bedroom, enraged by all Crosses’ behavior and half-wanting to take it out on Sephy. But though Dad pleads not guilty to all the charges, and though Kelani mounts an impressive case, the jury finds Dad guilty of all the charges.

Five white men murdered Lawrence while he was waiting for a bus in London, and though witnesses contacted the police with information about the perpetrators in the days following the incident, the police didn’t arrest anyone for weeks.Dominic Cooke's acclaimed Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of the bestselling novel by Malorie Blackman. Though he never appears in person in the novel, Alex Luther is a nought who fights for equality between noughts and Crosses through nonviolent protest, such as through sit-ins. Sephy is thrilled to see her friend every day, but meeting in public turns out to be more complex than she’d expected.

She also made history by being the first Black person to ever work on the television show Doctor Who. Dad is enraged when he learns the police don’t have Jude, but there’s no way to take back his confession. She also becomes uncomfortably aware of how racist her culture is, and she fears that her parents will divorce as their fighting escalates. Sephy is the only Cross to attend Lynette’s funeral, but her presence isn’t well-received; Dad and Jude both tell her to leave.Lynette’s death has a huge impact on the McGregor family, especially when the previously passive Ryan joins the Liberation Militia (L. Jude shares that their next task is to kidnap Sephy Hadley, who’s home from boarding school for the first time. As a kid, she wanted to be an English teacher, but she initially attended college to become a systems programmer instead. Sephy enters Hewmett Prison extremely confused and doesn’t realize she’s at Dad’s execution until guards bring him out to the scaffold.

After Sephy attempts to sit with the noughts at lunch, Lola, Dionne, and Joanne brutally beat Sephy up. Ryan confesses to the bombing, including seven counts of murder, because the police tell him that Jude will hang if he doesn’t. Hours later, police come to the house and deliver the news that Lynette was hit by a bus and killed.Further investigations uncovered institutional racism and general incompetence in the local police force, and in 2012, two of the suspects were found guilty of murder. Sephy is extremely disturbed by the day’s events—and is then confused when she learns Mother paid the McGregors’ legal fees.