Lesson Plans

Drama Game: Best Bits

Drama Game
David Farmer outlines a quick drama game that can be used to share group work.
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Age: 7-16

Players: Small groups

Time: 5 minutes per group

Skills: improvisation, performance

Quick ways to share group work

When groups develop scenes or improvisations, they inevitably want to share them with the rest of the class. With several groups this can take a while, especially when the mind begins to wander. So, when students have finished devising, ask them to choose the ‘best bit’ of their improvisation and to prepare a still image/freeze frame of that moment. Then when it's their turn, ask each group to make the image and use ‘Action Clip’ (see below) to bring it to life. That way, everybody gets to show their favourite moments in a much shorter space of time without (literally) losing the plot.

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