Online Resources
Our exciting and engaging resources are specially designed to support and enhance students’ understanding of our productions.
Our extensive set of resources for Animal Farm, Lord of the Flies (2023) and Macbeth are below, suitable for KS4 students, or check out our archive of resources from past shows.
Planet Omar
Suitable for: KS2
Download the resource pack here.
Animal Farm (2025)
A series of short ‘lectures’ from Director Amy Leach, Set & Costume Designer Hayley Grindle, and cast members, Shakeel Kimotho, Robin Morrissey, and Everal A Walsh, looking at social, historical, and literary contexts of Animal Farm.
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Macbeth (2022 + 2024)
Follow the story of the Design Process, as created by Designer Hayley Grindle and Resident Designer Warda Abbasi.
Suitable for: KS4 English, Drama and Art and Design
View the Macbeth Digital Designer’s Sketchbook here.
Download the Macbeth Digital Designer’s Sketchbook PDF here.
To view the ALT text in the sketchbook, please download the PDF document and open in Adobe or Adobe Reader.
Designs and sketches by Set & Costume Designer Hayley Grindle.
A series of short ‘lectures’ from Director Amy Leach, Set & Costume Designer Hayley Grindle, and Associate Professor from the University of Leeds Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch, looking at social, historical, and literary contexts of Macbeth.
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
From the rehearsal room of the 2022 production, get a look at two different interpretations of Act 1, Scene VII and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s language can be understood. With Jessica Baglow (Lady Macbeth) and Tachia Newall (Macbeth).
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Presented by the actors playing the central characters from the 2022 production, this short series explores the meanings behind some of the crucial lines from the play. With Jessica Baglow (Lady Macbeth), Shahbaaz Khan (Malcolm) and Gabriel Paul (Banquo).
Suitable for: KS4 English
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Get access to some of the key scenes of the 2022 production filmed from the stage to refer back to in your classroom.
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Once you have watched the filmed resources above, you could discuss some of the following questions as a class:
- Do you think the witches can predict the future? Would the events of the play still have happened without them?
- What decisions could you make about staging the play (perhaps thinking about when and where it was set) to ensure the witches still had an impact on a modern audience?
- Who do you think is to blame for what happens in the play? Did your opinion change after seeing the production at Leeds Playhouse?
- How does the Playhouse production emphasise or heighten the eerie nature of the play? What effects had the most impact?
- Why do you think Shakespeare wrote Macbeth? Is there a message for the audience, and if so, what is it?
Resource Archive
Digital Designer’s Sketchbook
Suitable for: KS4 English, Drama and Art and Design
View the Macbeth Digital Designer’s Sketchbook here.
Download the Macbeth Digital Designer’s Sketchbook PDF here.
To view the ALT text in the sketchbook, please download the PDF document and open in Adobe or Adobe Reader.
Designs and sketches by Set & Costume Designer Hayley Grindle.
Mini Lecture Series
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
A series of short ‘lectures’ looking at social, historical, and literary contexts of Macbeth from:
Set & Costume Designer Hayley Grindle
Associate Professor from the University of Leeds Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Associate Professor from the University of Leeds Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Associate Professor from the University of Leeds Dr. Brett Greatley-Hirsch
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Rehearsal Room Interpretations
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
From the rehearsal room of the 2022 production, get a look at two different interpretations of Act 1, Scene VII and the various ways in which Shakespeare’s language can be understood. With Jessica Baglow (Lady Macbeth) and Tachia Newall (Macbeth).
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Language analysis with actors
Suitable for: KS4 English
Presented by the actors playing the central characters from the 2022 production, this short series explores the meanings behind some of the crucial lines from the play. With Jessica Baglow (Lady Macbeth), Shahbaaz Khan (Malcolm) and Gabriel Paul (Banquo).
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Key scenes from final production
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Get access to some of the key scenes of the 2022 production filmed from the stage to refer back to in your classroom.
Filmed education resources by Sodium Films
Digital Designer’s Sketchbook
Suitable for: KS4 English, Drama and Art and Design.
Follow the story of the Design Process, as created by Set & Costume Designer, Max Johns through the Digital Designer’s Sketchbook here.
To view the ALT text in the sketchbook, please download the PDF document below, and open in Adobe or Adobe Reader.
Resource created by the Playhouse Education Team, designed by Graphic Design Officer Beata Pejka.
With thanks to Anna Duffield and the JMK Resident Assistant Director at Leeds Playhouse, Zoe Lack.
Designs and renders by Set and Costume Designer Max Johns.
Mini-lecture series
A series of short ‘lectures’ looking at the social, historical, and literary contexts of Lord of the Flies from:
Set & Costume Designer Max Johns
Suitable for: KS4 English and Drama
Language analysis videos
Language analysis suitable for KS4 English and Drama from:
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Kneehigh Steptoe and Son
Loserville
Angus, Thongs and Even More Snogging – Part 1 and Part 2
Annie
Death of a Salesman
The Deep Blue Sea
King Lear
As You Like It
Waiting for Godot
Mary Shelley
Refugee Boy
Of Mice and Men
The Crucible
James and the Giant Peach
The Witches
Podcasts
