Hi! As a drama teacher, youth theatre director and award-winning playwright, my aim is to make quality drama teaching resources and scripts that are great for teachers and their students. We all need more creativity in our lives! I have really enjoyed creating and using them and I know they'll be useful for you and your students too.
Hi! As a drama teacher, youth theatre director and award-winning playwright, my aim is to make quality drama teaching resources and scripts that are great for teachers and their students. We all need more creativity in our lives! I have really enjoyed creating and using them and I know they'll be useful for you and your students too.
A short unit containing a script for two characters with great drama and performance activities to help students to develop performance skills, character analysis work, improvisation abilities and script interpretation. It’s a really useful and fun introduction to script work, or a good unit for simple pair script work for students new to drama and performance.
Worksheets with questions that will help students to understand and remember appropriate drama terminology for performing, learning and evaluating. Suitable for students at any stage of their drama experience. Great for exam practice. Includes Questions and Answers. Great for independent classroom work, home work or distance learning.
A great pack of popular and practical drama methods and strategies with detailed explanations and examples of how they can be used across the curriculum. This pack is ideal for creating a lesson plan , as a quick reference, or as a drama teaching resource for new practitioners.
Over 50 games for social, personal and creative development. Brilliant ice-breakers and fun games for every occasion and group! Vigorous games for energising players, calmer games for providing focus, verbal games for supporting English learning and verbal development, creative games to stimulate the imagination.
A great activity pack of worksheets for students to explore, analyse and devise characters. The pack uses the Role On The Wall method of character analysis, which involves writing descriptive words, facts and assumptions about a character in and around a body outline. This pack encourages students to use the Role On The Wall method in various forms to explore and interpret different characters from stories, books, plays and films. This activity pack is suitable for students aged 9+ and can be used as a distanced learning pack, for home work, or for pair work or independent study in the classroom.
A great unit that supports drama practitioners and teachers who want to use Zoom as a platform for students to give theatre performances. The pack contains information on how to use Zoom, monologues and duologues that have been adapted for Zoom performances, guidance on performing a play on Zoom - from a teacher who has! - and lots of useful links and support.
This great unit of work uses a short extract from Hamlet to explore Shakespeare’s language, the play’s themes, characters and story. Ideas are explored and developed through movement, presentations, freezes, role play, mime, ritual and narration. It’s a great unit for helping to demystify Shakespeare’s language and for introducing new drama students to a range of drama methodology.
A unit of 10 drama lessons for the classroom. Simple to use and with great ideas for additional tasks and follow-on activities These no prep drama lesson plans are clearly laid out and very easy to follow. The classroom drama lessons are suitable for ages 7-11 and can be delivered in the classroom or a small drama studio. A great pack for new drama teachers to use.
A great pack of drama worksheets and theatre-related activities for independent study at senior level, ages 12+ The pack consist of 3 short script extracts each with numerous linked activities in four areas:
Performance
Research
Art and Design
Writing
Additional Script Writing Prompts
Suitable for any students to work through independently at school or at home.
Please note: the Greek unit in this pack is repeated, with small changes, in the pack for juniors.
A great unit of drama worksheets and theatre-related activities for independent study at junior level, ages 8+ The pack consist of 3 short script extracts each with numerous linked activities in four areas:
Performance
Research
Art and Design
Writing
Additional Script Writing Prompts
Suitable for any students to work through independently at school or at home.
Please note: the Greek unit in this pack is also repeated, with small changes, in the pack for seniors.
A great pack of fun drama games and simple drama activities that are suitable to be played at desks, in the cleared classroom, in a socially distanced drama studio - or even outside (weather permitting)! The drama games and activities are vaguely organised into ice-breakers, verbal games, movement activities and activities linked to creative performance. The pack also includes copies of any resources required, and guidelines for delivering safe socially distanced drama lessons.
A fantastic unit of activities for exploring and devising stories by creating picture-based storyboards - similar to cartoon spreads - using the 6 or 8 frame storyboard sheets provided. The worksheet pack helps students to explore traditional stories, original stories, short script extracts and life stories. The unit contains all of the necessary resources, including two storyboard templates, a traditional story for reference and two script extracts to create movie trailers! There’s enough material for a whole semester! Suitable for distance learning, home study, or independent classroom use. A perfect pack for supporting drama work, art work, English Language Arts and creative writing.
A short WW2 script unit for classroom learning, readers theater, staged readings on WW2 topic days, class assemblies, or full performances. Suitable for upper juniors and above.
Script pack unit includes
Full production notes for staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters, scenes and stage directions;
Linked drama and performance activities;
Linked history and research tasks;
Linked design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks.
Sausages For Tea is a short script unit upper juniors or seniors to read and perform. Set in 1940, it tells the story of one family’s experiences during an air raid in a fictional town.
This is a great complete script unit for developing stagecraft skills, teaching English Language Arts learning, improving speaking and listening skills and enjoying collaborative learning. A brilliant creative unit with linked classroom tasks that’s suitable for script work, topic days, school assembly, rehearsed staged readings, full performances - and fun!
Cast size: 7
Running time: approximately 15 minutes
Suitable for ages: 9+
A great short drama play script unit that explores the tensions that led to WW1. Suitable for large group High School readers theater or full performance.
Script pack includes
Full production notes - staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters, scenes and stage directions;
Linked drama activities;
Follow-on linked history tasks;
Follow-on linked creative writing tasks;
Linked art and design activities
Loads of subject material for collaborative learning, research and exploration. Great for British history topic days, creative learning and assembly performances.
Cast size: 30 (+/- 4)
Running time: approximately 20 minutes
Suitable for ages 12+
This Single Performance License allows your school or drama group to give ONE performance of the play script Harry Rings, Lord of the Potters. Licenses to perform plays are needed, regardless of whether your audience is paying an admission entry fee or not. This license is valid for 6 months but can only be used once.
A one act script pack of Shakespeare’s Hamlet for High School readers theater. An adaptation of Hamlet suitable for large group Upper Juniors or High School readers theater, staged readings, or full performances.
Script pack includes:
Full production notes for staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters, scenes and stage directions;
Linked drama activities;
Linked art and design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks;
A fabulous short adaptation of Hamlet that includes all of the original character names, story threads and themes. Horatio is interviewed by the police as he’s a chief suspect!
This is a great script unit for developing stagecraft skills, English Language Arts learning, speaking and listening skills and collaborative learning. A brilliant creative unit for linked classroom tasks, school performances, Shakespeare celebrations, staged readings - and fun!
Cast size: 24 (+/- 3)
Running time: approx. 50 minutes
Suitable for ages 10+
A script unit for seniors which brings The Ballad of Mulan narrative poem to life through simple dialogue, stylised movement and Choral speaking. Suitable for seniors readers theater, staged readings, full performances and festival competitions.
Script pack unit includes
Full production notes for movement, staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters, scenes and stage directions;
Linked drama and performance activities;
Linked art and design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks.
The Ballad of Mulan is a is a faithful retelling of the popular traditional Chinese narrative poem which tells the story of brave Mulan, who takes her elderly father’s place in the army and fights as a male soldier throughout the war.
This is a great complete script unit for developing stagecraft skills, teaching English Language Arts learning, improving speaking and listening skills and enjoying collaborative learning. A brilliant creative unit with linked classroom activities and tasks that’s suitable for script work, rehearsed staged readings, full performances and entering festival competitions.
Cast size: 12+ (the Chorus can be large!)
Running time: approximately 20 minutes
Suitable for ages: 10+
A lovely Christmas-themed readers theater drama play script based on a short story by Thomas Hardy. Suitable for large group Juniors and High School readers theater, staged reading, or full performance.
Script pack includes
Full production notes for staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters, scenes, and stage directions;
Linked drama activities;
Linked art and design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks.
Hubert is trying to get home for Christmas, but finds himself accidentally caught up in a robbery that he has to stop…!
A fabulous unit for exploring how short stories are adapted into scripts and the theme of ‘honesty’ plus a great unit for developing stagecraft skills, English Language Arts learning, speaking and listening skills, collaborative learning. Brilliant for classroom tasks, full school performances, staged readings - and fun!
Cast size: 21
Running time: approx. 30 minutes
Suitable for ages 8+
A comedy soap opera readers theater drama play script* set on a spaceship! Suitable for large group Upper Juniors and High School readers theater, staged reading, or full performance.
Script unit pack includes
Full production notes for staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters and stage directions;
Linked drama activities;
Linked art and design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks.
There’s chaos on the spaceship, the Captain isn’t paying attention, and now the Inspectors from the Outer Far Space Tracking and Eradication Division are on their way!
A fabulous script for exploring soap operas and space terms plus great material for stagecraft skills, English Language development, collaborative learning, school performances - and fun!
*Please note, there are references to drugs in this script
Cast size: 26-32
Running time: approximately 30 minutes
Suitable for ages 9+*
*Please note, there are references to drugs in this script
A Fairy Tale readers theater drama play script on the theme of telling lies. Suitable for large group Juniors or High School readers theater, staged readings, or full performances.
Script pack includes:
Full production notes for staging, costumes, set design, lighting, sound, props and furniture;
Photocopiable script with clear characters and stage directions;
Linked drama activities;
Linked art and design tasks;
Linked creative writing tasks;
Fairy Crystal can’t stop telling lies - but will she learn to stop, or will she tell a big one to save the fairy colony?
A fabulous fairy tale script for exploring the themes of telling lies, community and friendship plus a great unit for developing stagecraft skills, English Language Arts learning, speaking and listening skills and collaborative learning. A brilliant creative unit for linked classroom tasks, school performances, staged readings - and fun!
Cast size: 24 (+/- 4)
Running time: approx. 30 minutes
Suitable for ages 8+