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Cross-Cutting
Cross-Cutting Drama Strategies The dramatic action switches quickly between different scenes in the same space. Cross-cutting is a drama strategy similar to the use of the split-screen technique in...
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Whoosh! Bringing Stories Alive through Drama
Whoosh Storytelling Guide Drama Strategies Instantly bring any story to life through drama! This engaging and interactive storytelling technique enables any kind of story to be brought alive, without...
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10 Second Teaching Tips
10 Second Teaching TipsDrama Strategies Tips for all levels and ages from our new course Just Add Drama! The classic game Ten Second Objects can be used to teach vocabulary, to explore course books,...
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3D Living Pictures
3D Living PicturesWhat are 3D Living Pictures? Works of art, book illustrations and photographs can provide powerful inspiration for drama activities. Images can easily be brought to life through...
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Where Do You Stand?
Where Do You Stand?From ‘101 More Drama Games and Activities’ Where Do You Stand?From ‘101 More Drama Games and Activities’ Prompts to use with the game I prefer cats to dogs If you find money on the...
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Role on the Wall
Role on the WallDrama Strategies Role on the wall is a collaborative activity for developing thoughts and ideas about a character. In Role on the Wall, the outline of a body is drawn on a large sheet...
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Drama For Writing
Drama For WritingDrama Strategies Drama provides children with a meaningful purpose for writing. Pupils become motivated to communicate through emotional identification with characters and their...
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Action Clip
Action ClipDrama Strategies A fast way to bring a freeze frame to life – with no preparation! Action Clip is an incredibly easy way to bring freeze-frames to life. Just say "Three, Two, One, ACTION!"...
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Thought Tracking
Thought TrackingDrama Strategies Characters in a freeze-frame speak their thoughts and feelings aloud. Thought tracking is a brilliant way to develop language from freeze-frames. Once students have...
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Teacher in Role
TEACHER IN ROLETeacher in role is an invaluable technique for shaping the dramatic process and developing students’ learning. The teacher takes on a role related to a story or theme and sets up a...
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Storytelling
Storytelling is one of the simplest and perhaps most compelling forms of dramatic and imaginative activity. A good place to start is by telling stories to your pupils and encouraging them to share...
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Freeze Frames
Freeze FramesDrama Strategies Participants freeze their bodies to create a scene. It’s just like pressing pause on a video. Freeze frames (also known as still images and tableaux) can be created...
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Spotlight
Spotlighting is a useful teaching technique for sharing improvised drama when you have divided the class into smaller groups. When it is time to show their work, ask all the groups to sit on the floor....
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Role Play
Role play is the basis of all dramatic activity. The ability to suspend disbelief by stepping into another character's shoes comes quite naturally to most children. Through the structure of the drama...
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Narration
Narration is a technique whereby one or more performers speak directly to the audience to tell a story, give information or comment on the action of the scene or the motivations of characters....
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Marking the Moment
Marking the MomentDrama Strategies Marking the Moment is a dramatic technique used to highlight a key moment in a scene or improvisation. Write down any moments that are key in your scene. They could...
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Mantle of the Expert
What is Mantle of the Expert? Students assume the roles of experts in a co-created fictional world. Mantle of the Expert (MoE) is based on the premise that treating children as responsible experts...
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Image Theatre
Image TheatreDrama Strategies Participants sculpt their own or each others’ bodies to express attitudes and emotions. Image Theatre is the use of still images (freeze-frames) to explore abstract...
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Hot Seating
Hot SeatingDrama Strategies What is Hot Seating? A character is questioned by the other students about their background, behaviour and motivation. The method can be used for exploring any character...
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Forum Theatre
A technique pioneered by Brazilian radical Augusto Boal. A play or scene, usually indicating some kind of oppression, is shown twice. During the replay, any member of the audience (‘spect-actor’) is...
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