Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock and Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba are joining AQA's GCSE English Literature specification from September 2023. And to help you get ready, we've rounded up some great resources for anyone teaching and studying the plays – to help deepen your understanding of the texts and their writers.

Take a look at the resources for each text in turn below – and keep checking back to this page for more as they become available.

Leave Taking by Winsome Pinnock

LISTEN: a Q&A podcast with Winsome Pinnock about writing Leave Taking, recorded in April 2020 for our NHB Playgroup initiative. 

LISTEN: an audio recording of Scene 2 of Leave Taking, recorded by the National Theatre in 2013 for their Black Plays Archive.

WATCH: an interview with Winsome Pinnock about writing Leave Taking, recorded in April 2018 ahead of the play's revival at the Bush Theatre, London. 

WATCH: an introduction to Leave Taking and Winsome Pinnock's legacy, featuring interviews with cast members and other creatives – as well as performed extracts from a couple of speeches from the play. Recorded in April 2018 ahead of the play's revival at the Bush Theatre, London. 

READ: an Evening Standard interview with Winsome Pinnock from 2018, about writing Leave Taking and her career as a playwright.

Princess & The Hustler by Chinonyerem Odimba

LISTEN: a Q&A podcast with Chinonyerem Odimba about writing Princess & The Hustler, recorded in June 2020 for our NHB Playgroup initiative.

WATCH: an interview with Chinonyerem Odimba about writing Princess & The Hustler, recorded in April 2019 for the play's premiere tour by Eclipse Theatre. 

READ: a Bristol 24/7 interview with Chinonyerem Odimba about her research process and writing Princess & The Hustler.

ATTEND: an online CPD event with Chinonoyerem Odimba and theatre director Rob Watt, about bringing Princess & The Hustler to life in the classroom. 12 December 2022, 5.30pm-7.30pm, hosted by National Drama.