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Action Clip

Drama Strategies

Action Clip is the perfect way to bring a freeze frame to life – with a clap of the hands!

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3D Living Pictures

Drama Strategies

Bring characters from works of art, book illustrations and photographs to life through drama.

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Forum Theatre

Drama Strategies

The power lies with the audience, as they replace characters on stage to change the outcome of a scene.

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Bringing Fairy Tales to Life through Drama

Drama Teaching, Drama Teaching Tips, Features, Primary Drama

Ways to develop fairy and folk tales into rehearsed performances, improvisations, tableaux and oral storytelling.

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Flashbacks and Flash Forwards

Drama Strategies

Expand on a freeze-frame to create the before and after images. Great strategy for story building in drama.

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Imaginarium

Drama Games, Mime and Movement, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

An exciting and completely unpredictable way to use body shapes to brainstorm ideas.

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Whoosh! Bringing Stories Alive through Drama

Directing and Devising, Drama Strategies, Features

An interactive technique in which participants become characters and objects in a story as it is told.

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Commedia dell’arte Drama Unit

Acting, Directing and Devising, Download - Secondary, Features

Commedia dell’arte began in the marketplaces of 16th-century Europe as improvised theatre which was rude, funny and satirical.

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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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Playing the Mask: Acting Without Bullshit by John Wright

Acting, Books, Directing

An expert and entertaining exploration of half-mask, full mask and archetypes with many games along the way.

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