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Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide By Mark Channon

Acting, Books

Using the experience of his acting career, Mark Channon applies Mindfulness and the Memory Palace approach to learning lines for auditions, rapid learning for television shoots, getting off-book in rehearsals and becoming present and truthful in your relationship with other performers.

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Hot Spotting

Drama Strategies

An amazingly fun and easy way to mix up hot-seating and freeze frames to develop characters

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Teaching Gold Mining in New Zealand through Drama

Drama Teaching

These five incredibly simple methods for drama teaching inspired a teacher in New Zealand to bring to life her social studies project on gold-mining history.

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Drop Of A Hat by David Farmer – Review January 2022

Books

Review: “…a useful and helpful book for primary practitioners.”

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Sculptor and Statue

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Students work in pairs and one mould the other’s body into a character or shape.

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What If?

Drama Games, Improvisation, Storytelling, Writing

Quick ways to revamp a fairy tale – or any story – through improvisation and discussion.

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Status Pictures

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

In pairs, create a still image where one of you has a higher status than the other.

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Two Truths And A Lie

Drama Games, Icebreakers, Speaking and Listening

Tell your partner three things about yourself – two of which are true and one of which is a lie!

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Three Word Sentences

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language, Speaking and Listening

Sometimes three words are just enough.

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Fruit Salad

Concentration, Drama Games, Warm Ups

A fun game encouraging fast reactions and verbal dexterity by saying the names of fruits.

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Night Watchman

The museum is closed for the night. The watchman is making his rounds. But something strange is going on…

Count To 20

A classic concentration and focus exercise, where the group tries to count to twenty.

Guide to Freeze-Frames and Still Images

Ideas about using freeze-frames in drama, including 50+ ways to use them across the curriculum and a checklist for grading.

Open and Close

A brilliant method of performing a series of freeze-frames to tell a story in a drama lesson.

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