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Where Do You Stand?

Drama Games, Group Dynamics, Speaking and Listening

A fast, fun and effective way of discovering everybody’s opinions about a subject

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Drama One to One Online/Offline

Communication, Teaching Drama Online, Workshops

Therapeutic drama one-to-one, online and offline – an interview with Janine Oxley.

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How to Direct a Show Online

Directing and Devising, Performance, Teaching Drama Online

Is it possible to continue rehearsals for a youth theatre production with a cast of 33 during the coronavirus crisis?

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Adverb Game

Drama Games, Improvisation, Language

Guess the emotion/action and adverb in this hilarious mime guessing game

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What Are You Doing?

Concentration, Drama Games, Language, Mime and Movement, Warm Ups

Quick thinking and action is essential in this funny mime and spoken language drama game.

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One Word At A Time

Drama Games, Language, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

A story is told by the group or in pairs, with each person adding one word at a time.

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Grandma’s Footsteps

Drama Games, Group Dynamics, Mime and Movement

This classic playground game is perfect for exploring dramatic tension. Plenty of fun, surprise and cheating!

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The Drama Book by Alice Savage

Books, Directing, Drama Clubs, Language Learning, Plays

A comprehensive guide to using plays and drama activities, ideal for those working with English language learners.

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My Favourite Drama Teaching Books

Books, Drama Teaching, Features, Language Teaching, Primary, Secondary

These books are ideal for practical ideas to use right away. The first two cover secondary as well as primary and the others are for younger children. They are my favourite drama books at the moment! 100 Acting Exercises for 8-18 Year Olds by Samantha Marsden Samantha...Read more

100 Acting Exercises for 8-18 Year Olds by Samantha Marsden

Acting, Books, Drama Clubs, Primary, Secondary

Samantha Marsden provides a practical tour through the leading approaches to acting used on the stage today.

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Recent Posts

Learning Your Lines: The Compact Guide By Mark Channon

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.

Hot Spotting

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

Teaching Gold Mining in New Zealand through Drama

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.

Drop Of A Hat by David Farmer – Review January 2022

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

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