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Drama in the Classroom (Dr Dennis Yeo)
- Everybody participates
- Our aim is education, not perfection
- How young children play football
o They all rush towards the ball
o Instead of spacing out, and passing the ball to one another
- Can use a whistle
- Space: e.g. dance studio, school hall, LT space, amphitheatre
Acting is not something that is very difficult
- Often we’ve divided each other into performers and audience members
- Acting is an exercise in which we’ve feeding off one another
- We’re constantly responding to them
N.B. use of masks
- Can be useful e.g. for younger / shy students
The facilitator is also participating
- A conscious choice
Awareness of Self
- Silent Faces / Silent Bodies (everybody be happy / sad / angry, with just your face / body)
- Mirror
- Sculpture
- Circle of Faith
N.B. Body contact (gender issues)
- E.g. if there are religious students in class
- E.g. won’t do the lingerie activity in the classroom
Awareness of Space
- Learning to walk
- Creating character and setting
- Who am I? Where am I? What am I doing?
- Improvising with Props
Awareness of Others (Co-operation)
- Circle of Faith
- Machine
- Tableaux
Improvisation
- Story-telling (in two rows facing one another; tell the story to the other person; objective is to make the other person laugh)
- Greetings
- First Date
- Doctor and Patient
Dialogue and Action
- Couple quarrelling: NOT just about shouting (there can be the silent treatment)
o Use of tone, silence, volume, language
- (Buying lingerie)
Putting up a performance
- Improvisation
- The lady of the meadow (telling a story which students have to act out; they react to what is said)
Interactive, Active, Collaborative, Integrative
Scripts:
- Durian Man: pathos
- Wing Tips: dramatic monologue
- Frog and Toad: e.g. the narrator read out the whole story, and the two ‘frogs’ spoke in frog language (hilarious)
The teacher takes a back seat
A tension in the play that becomes manifest
Certain movements that the actor brings into the performance
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