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Attend a Drama Course

Popular one-day drama courses for actors, teachers, directors and drama leaders are held regularly in London. Booking for the following one-day courses is now open:

Developing Directing Skills
  • Wednesday 28th July 2010
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

This unique one day course gives you an opportunity to explore many of the skills required in directing a play for the stage. With an emphasis on a practical approach, participants work with professional theatre director David Farmer in considering how to tell a story through performance. Topics include: finding ways into a script, blocking a scene, sub-text, character development, ensemble working, physical theatre, mime and movement.

Primary Drama INSET Day
  • Wednesday 29th September 2010 10.30am - 4.30pm
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

This popular one-day training course on primary drama techniques with David Farmer is aimed at teachers working with the 5-11 age-range. The practical approach will leave you inspired, with a skill-set of dramatic ideas and techniques for teaching primary drama lessons and workshops in schools or drama clubs, including a look at the New Primary Curriculum.

Learning through Drama for Children with Special Educational Needs
  • Saturday 6th November 2010
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

Led by Dr Melanie Peter, Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University, this practical course explores the importance of drama for enabling all children, including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN), to learn through imagined experience. Using role-play is key to children developing awareness and understanding of others’ perspectives and how to influence the course of events.

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Jack and the Beanstalk

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Written and directed by David Farmer, with music by Kenny Forrest. Three actor/musicians. 50 minutes. Script and music available. Originally a co-production w [ ... ]



Game of the Week

101 Drama Games and Activities

A collection of highly effective games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults. Now one of the best-selling books on educational drama!

101 Drama Games and Activities

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New courses

A successful spin-off from this website are the courses which we run regularly in London. These include Primary Drama INSET Day - you can see photos from this in the slide-show above. Other courses are being planned for the autumn. If you would like to keep up to date with these plans, then please sign up to our popular newsletter.  You can see lots more photos from the courses on our FaceBook page.
 

Lecoq's Levels of Tension and Physical Theatre

In this podcast I talk about the Extending Directing Skills workshop I ran yesterday - including Jacques Lecoq's "seven levels of tension" and discussion of Random Images - a game to help create physical theatre.

 

Teachers TV Player

The Drama Resource website now features selected programmes from Teachers' TV. To view programmes for both Primary and Secondary go to the Teachers' TV Player.

 

Cross Cutting

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Cross-cutting (also called split-screen) is a technique borrowed from the world of film editing, where two scenes are intercut to establish continuity. In drama and theatre the term is used to describe two or more scenes which are performed on stage at the same time. This makes it possible to juxtapose scenes or snippets of scenes that happen at different times or in different places, using separate areas of the performance space.  The technique is used to highlight or contrast a particular theme or aspect of the story. Using different groupings, both scenes could happen at the same time, or one could be frozen while the other comes alive.  This can have a similar effect to spotlighting particular areas of the stage or using a split-screen in a film.

Why use it?
Cross-cutting is invaluable for analysing themes in the performance of a drama by directly comparing or contrasting elements of the story.

 

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