DRAMA TECHNIQUES EXEMPLIFIED

CONTENTS

LEARNING THROUGH DRAMA
- Techniques for exploring issues & situations found in texts

1. Opening
2. Still Image
3. Freeze Frame Technique
4. Cross Cutting
5. Marking The Moment
6. Parrot On the Shoulder
7. Relationship Mapping
8. Conscience Alley
9. Essence Machine
10. Improvisation
11. Forum theatre
12. Mantle of the Expert

- Techniques for exploring a 'Character' or 'Role'

1. Opening
2. Writing or Speaking in role
3. Role on the Wall
4. Icebergs
5. Centring
6. Gestures
7. Mannerisms
8. Finding a Voice
9. Though Tracking
10. Hot Seating
11. Collective Role

LEARNING ABOUT THEATRE
- Preparing a piece of Drama for an audience

1. Opening

2. Staging the Drama
3. The Stage

- Techniques for use in Performance

1. Opening
2. Narration
3. Split Screen
4. Flashback
5. Flash Forward
6. Choral Speaking
7. Slow Motion
8. Soundscape
9. Performer as Resource
10. Dance Drama
11. Messenger Technique

- Theatre Formats

1. Opening
2. End On
3. Thrust
4. Theatre in the Round
5. Traverse
6. Promenade

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