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Creative Drama and Enrichment in New York State By Ellen Flaks As a Theater Major at Syracuse University in the ‘80’s, I had an opportunity to teach young children in a Saturday morning creative drama class at the local community center. I...Read More... -
Berkoff, Godber and Physical Theatre Techniques By Mandy McKenna Both Berkoff and Godber are hugely popular with young people for good reason. They are both very enjoyable to perform as they make bold physical statements which are hugely theatrical...Read More... -
The Dragon Speaks By Anna Kemp For the last few years, I have been running theatre workshops for kids in the Alpujarra mountains in the south of Spain. I moved to a village there with my husband and our three young kids...Read More... -
Writing Plays for Children By Alison Chaplin Nearly 30 years ago I co-founded a youth theatre and it very quickly became a popular place for young people to cut their theatrical teeth. In the early days – during that stage...Read More... -
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The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman. Dorothy Heathcote (MBE) began her working life as a weaver in a Lancashire woollen mill at the age of... -
Seven Levels of Tension Jacques Lecoq developed an approach to acting using seven levels of tension. These changed and developed during his practice and have been further developed by other practitioners. The following suggestions...Read More... -
Whoosh! This engaging and interactive storytelling technique enables any kind of story - simple or complex - to be brought alive, even without prior knowledge of the characters or plot. As well...Read More... -
Devising Theatre By David FarmerRead More...
(First published in Teaching Drama Magazine) Getting Started Devising a piece of theatre can be a stimulating and exciting journey towards the development of a performance which... -
Drama for Language Learning Drama is an effective way of helping students to learn languages including English as a Second Language (ESL), as it uses active teaching and learning styles likely to motivate and sustain the attention...Read More... -
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 4 Educational programme Forkbeard Fantasy run regular workshops and residencies as an integral part of their artistic programme. Courses range from one-day workshops to their popular six-day Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 3 Practical exercises exploring the Forkbeard approach Through the Looking Glass To explain Forkbeard's extraordinary melding of film and live performance, it is useful to show students extracts of their...Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 2 Key productions Forkbeard Fantasy have produced dozens of shows ranging from On An Uncertain Insect to The Barbers of Surreal,...Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 1 Key theory, ideas and practices Forkbeard Fantasy are pioneers of cross-artform multimedia theatre. Their subversive performances are a seemingly anarchic...Read More...
Recommended Books
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Developing Drama Skills by Joss Bennathan This book provides an excellent framework for Key Stage 3 drama., including 16 practical, varied and imaginative units of work with clear aims, backed up by resource sheets and a model...Read More... -
Creating Drama with 7-11 Year Olds by Miles Tandy and Jo Howell A highly practical book providing a wide range of ideas for using drama across the curriculum, with themes ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greek Myths to Silent Film, Shakespeare and...Read More... -
Jumpstart Drama - Games and Activities for Ages 5-11 Designed to be used as a dip-into book, containing over 40 approaches to using drama with well-known texts already popular with children. The sections cover fiction, poetry, non-fiction...Read More... -
The Primary Drama Handbook by Patrice Baldwin A practical manual of drama lesson approaches for working across a range of curriculum subjects. Valuable advice about drama policies and evaluation as well as accessible hands-on...Read More... -
Drama Play: Bringing Books to Life Through Drama for 4 to 7 Year Olds by Kay Hiatt This book contains a series of ready-planned drama lessons based on 12 readily-available books for 4-7 year olds. A range of drama techniques are used throughout. The lessons...Read More...
Resource Reviews
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Romeo and Juliet - Globe Education Shakespeare The latest addition to the series of new editions for 11-16 year olds from Shakespeare's Globe Education tackles Romeo and Juliet. Just like the edition...Read More... -
Drama Games for Devising by Jessica Swale Jessica Swale follows up her popular first collection of drama games with a second volume that will be of use to anybody embarking on devising their own performance...Read More... -
Early Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream This CD-ROM presents an abridged animated version of A Midsummer Night's Dream broken down into forty simple scenes. Children click on the 'Next' button once they have finished listening to and watching a scene. Each scene has a one sentence summary for children to read and listen to and they can click on a character to hear an extract of a speech...Read More... -
Drama Sessions for Primary Schools and Drama Clubs by Alison Day After school drama clubs are a popular choice as part of extended schools programming and this book is aimed squarely at teachers and freelance practitioners...Read More... -
A Practical Guide to Shakespeare for the Primary School by John Doona By my troth, I am fain to recommend this highly practical book if you are looking to explore Shakespeare with primary-aged varlets. The author provides more...Read More... -
Drama To Inspire This invaluable book brings together a whole range of contemporary approaches to drama in education. 12 leading practitioners from the worlds of educational drama and professional...Read More... -
Teaching Mathematics Creatively by Linda Pound and Trisha Lee Many schools are finding it more and more difficult to engage children in mathematics. This book aims to correct that by placing a whole range of creative approaches into the...Read More... -
Macbeth - Globe Education Shakespeare Macbeth is the first in a series of new editions from Shakespeare's Globe Education. Aimed at 11-16 year olds, the book brings the text alive through dozens of full-colour photos...Read More... -
National Drama Conference April 2011Review by Chris Lawrence, London Drama National Drama’s International Drama Conference this year was held at Swansea University 11-14th April 2011. Titled Drama - Same Difference and subtitled diversity and mutuality of process and practice it attracted attendees from every continent on Earth (except Antarctica) and provided a rich programme of keynotes,...Read More...
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The Helicopter Resource Pack by Trisha Lee I’ve known about the work of Vivian Gussin Paley for years since reading her book The Boy Who Would Be A Helicopter which describes a powerful...Read More...
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