This scheme of work is intended to be used to either explore the text for use with a GCSE class for performance or to use the themes and events within the text for devising.
The scheme uses on- and...
This scheme encourages students to make drama about a group of ‘foreigners’ arriving in a new land, sometimes met with hostility, sometimes by acceptance and kindness.
Each session takes a different...
Characters and characterisation sit at the very heart of drama. Theatre and stories wouldn’t exist without them, nor indeed principal actors who would take on those roles. However, that is exactly how...
KS 3
This scheme of work is intended to be used to either explore the text for use with a GCSE class for performance or to use the themes and events within the text for devising. The scheme uses on- and...
KS 4
Many students of drama – even at KS4 – shy away from monologues as much as possible.
Solos are so much more daunting than a duologue or group piece, of course. But if the character is rounded and...
This scheme of work, consisting of six 120-minute sessions, suggests ways to handle emotion most effectively through a range of drama techniques.
KS 3
During this scheme of work, students will be given the opportunity to take an in-depth look at the play, An Inspector Calls, by J. B. Priestley. An emphasis is placed here, on the themes of social...
KS 4
This devising scheme comprises six 2-hour sessions exploring a range of characters under a wide variety of pressures.
KS 3
In this scheme of work, I have included tried and tested activities found to be both popular and inspiring with the KS4 age group, as well as covering some of the dramatic techniques and written...
KS 4
A knock or ring at the door, followed by someone opening it, may allow a range of joys, miseries, crimes, regrets, fears, happy memories or surrealism into an existing situation.
KS 3
First performed in 1958, A Taste of Honey by Shelagh Delaney is an excellent example of post-war social drama.
KS 4
As they progress through the Key Stages, students learn how to devise or improvise their stories and make up the characters to people the worlds they create.
KS 3
In this scheme looking at the genre of Italian commedia dell’arte, KS4 students explore the physicality of the stock characters, understand lazzi, how commedia plays were structured and the six...
KS 4
