Conscience Alley is a drama strategy, sometimes referred to as a Decision Alley or Thought Tunnel. The words conscience, decision and thought clearly indicate this strategy's link with thinking skills. It enables students to collaboratively generate a character's inner (and possibly conflicting) thoughts, usually at a key moment of indecision within a drama. The character may be in a dilemma, weighing up the pros and cons of taking a particular course of action. For example, Macbeth could walk through a Conscience Alley when wavering about whether to murder Duncan. The character's voiced thoughts may come directly from a script or might be inferred from it.
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