Joe Penhall's screenplay for the film of Cormac McCarthy' s post-apocalyptic novel provides a gripping and unforgettable text. The novel won the 2007 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the the film starring Viggo Mortensen and Charlize Theron won praise for its faithful rendering of the novel's dystopian vision. The Road is set a few years after an unexplained cataclysmic world disaster has left the earth barren and hostile. It follows a father and son as they struggle to survive in a landscape where men either starve or join the marauding gangs of cannibals. Readers are advised that there are some scenes of a disturbing nature. This educational edition in Methuen Drama's Critical Scripts series has been prepared by Drama experts Ruth Moore and Paul Bunyan. Building on a decade of highly effective work and publications each book in the series features detailed, structured schemes of work utilising drama approaches to improve literary and language analysis and places pupils' understanding of the learning process at the heart of the activities.