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Family Portraits

Drama Games, Mime and Movement

Groups make family portraits by striking funny poses such as aliens, rockstars or dinosaurs.

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10 Second Teaching Tips

Drama Strategies

Tips for using the drama game Ten Second Objects for Primary, Secondary and Language teachers.

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Shoe Shuffle

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

Develop imagination and mime skills using everyday objects.

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Random Sound Stories

Drama Games, Sound, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

Small groups tell or perform a story which incorporates completely random sounds.

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Guided Tour

Drama Games, Improvisation, Speaking and Listening, Storytelling

Take your blindfolded partner on an imaginary and sensory journey.

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Open and Close

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

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

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Introducing Augusto Boal (12 years to adult)

Download - Secondary

3 full-length practical sessions introducing the work of the revolutionary Brazilian theatre maker.

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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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Sculptor and Statue

Drama Games, Improvisation, Mime and Movement

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

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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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