Review

Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare

Freddie Machin reviews Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare by Alanna Beeken and the Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation.
 

Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare by Alanna Beeken and the Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation
Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare by Alanna Beeken and the Coram Shakespeare Schools Foundation

Frequently, tutors will be partway through delivering a drama session and realise it has not gone as expected. Someone hasn't turned up, we've been turfed out of our usual room, or the material just isn't landing in the way we had hoped or thought it would. It's in these panic-stricken, tea-guzzling, biscuit-refusing break times that Drama Games for Exploring Shakespeare comes into its own.

The slim volume implies that you might want to keep it in your back pocket for emergency situations, but I've been holding on to mine for dear life this week, thumbing the pages whenever I've been faced with a last-minute change and still the same mammoth goal to achieve.

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