From generation to generation

As children grow, parents, grandparents and others mark and note the likenesses and
differences with previous generations. Our genes often reveal our father’s eyes, our
mother’s nose or our grandmother’s creative abilities. Sometimes illnesses and diseases
are passed on, too.

Many good and bad character traits and personality features seem to be carried down
endless generations. What if hatred, loathing or criminally-inclined passions are also
continued each generation?

This scheme of six 2-hour sessions is designed to make a piece of group-devised drama using
a variety of techniques that can be worked up for a performance to an audience and/or for the
GCSE exam through the ideas that feuds and vendettas can last many generations, long after
the initial reasons have been forgotten.

Scheme learning objectives
1 - To work collaboratively in groups to create a piece of devised drama from stimulus to
performance.
2 - To develop the use of drama techniques
3 - To explore ideas about the motives that drive credible characters.

What’s needed?
1 - Drama space, minimal furniture
2 - Access to a range of drama props, costumes, music, instruments, pictures and other stimulus
material as required
3 - A tightly focused timetable from the start to the performance