Leave Taking

Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock is a play that follows the lives of the Matthews family, their friend Brod and a local Obeahwoman called Mai. It is set in London in the 1980s.

Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock has three main characters: Enid Matthews, Del Matthews and Viv Matthews. All of the characters in the play are fictional.

A theme is a big idea that can be found throughout the text. In Leave Taking, three of the main themes are family, culture and education.

Leave Taking is written as a play and intended to be performed. It is a realist play, which means it focuses on the everyday lives of ordinary people.

For OCR, Leave Taking, is part of Paper 2: Exploring modern and literary heritage texts. You will be presented with a question in two parts and with two extracts.

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