Drama and Role Play

Keeping a performance diary enables youn poeple to reflect on their learning and the new skills they have acquired over the course of the project or series of workshops.

This is a way of enabling young people to experience and demonstrate how negative and positive feedback feels using a drama technique called a ‘thought tunnel’. This can be used at the end of each session or performance.

This exercise can be used after any performance to enable young people to develop the skills to give and receive constructive feedback.

This warm up enables young people to practise improvising from a given first line.

This warm up activity develops communication and improvisation skills as young people work together to create a short scene.

This session asks young people to take up a romantic story from the point of ‘happy ever after’ and imagine what happens next.

The young people will examine the relationship between fairy tales and modern day relationships and use creative improvisation techniques to develop characters, environments and action.

This game develops communication skills and confidence as young people improvise a party scene and assume given characters.

This is an improvisation game that encourages quick thinking and develops story telling and communication skills. Through the course of the game everyone in the group will participate.

This is an improvisation game that encourages quick thinking and develops mime and communication skills. Through the course of the game young people will get to work with every member of the group.