This complete unit of work explores the play and style of Poor Theatre through various practical activities. Although written a while ago the themes and contexts are very relevant today about how society treats people who are ‘different’ and how an autistic child sees the world. Skills included over several lesson are: Vocal awareness Physicalisation Language Characterisation Interpretation Non-verbal communication Visual, aural and spatial aspects Context

This unit encourages the students to explore different characters, situation, locations and how characters react with each other. Inspired by ‘The Breakfast Club’ , narrative and dialogue can be created when characters are thrown together as strangers. How they react, interact and speak to one another. Preconceived ideas, and qualities they can pretend to have to people who don’t know them. Hot seating Thought tracking Role play Characterisation Back story Journey of a character

A collection of games and exercises aimed at older students. These act as good ice breakers at the start of term and also encourage confidence and more challenging aspects to develop their skills.Each is fully explained with some examples and some extension work where appropriate.

This unit of work uses paintings as a stimulus to create effective drama. This four lesson scheme of work includes warm-ups and practical activities to inspire the creation of character, plot and dialogue. THree paintings are included in the powerpoint to allow the students to create a three scene piece of drama: before the painting, the actual painting and after the painting. Movement and music could also be added to enhance the drama. The paintings I have used are: ‘Nighthawks’ by Edward Hopper ‘The Fight Between Carnival and Lent’ by Pieter Bruegel the Elder ‘First Class’ by LS Lowry But this unit would work with many others of your own choice.

This scheme of work will help develop your students’ physical skills through a number of warm-ups, exercises and tasks. It will help build their confidence to explore different ways of moving, support characterisation and help to execute physical theatre effectively and their understanding of companies like Frantic Assembly.

This workshop includes Whooshing the story for students not familiar with the plot. Connected warm-ups are included and then Still Images/Tableaux to explore themes of the play. The students can then create scenes from the play which can then be joined together to create a whole class performance of the play. A synopsis of the play and the play broken down into twelve simple sections are included along with instructions to deliver the workshop. Suitable for y6 and upwards as can be differentiated accordingly.

A substantial scheme of work to be taught over about 6 hours to enable students to explore the theme and develop their devising skills through various dramatic techniques such as still image, role play and characterisation. The scheme of work has connected warm-ups and games, practical exploration activities and suggested written tasks to record their practical work . Pair and group work task are included and tasks include response to music and objects, film extracts and a statue as the three stimuli.

A substantial scheme of work to be taught over about 6 hours to enable students to explore the theme and develop their devising skills through various dramatic techniques such as still image, role play, movement, choral work and characterisation. This scheme allows the students to explore the concepts of private and public insanity, mental health and the social, cultural and historical aspects of the perception and treatment of insanity. The scheme of work has connected warm-ups and games and practical exploration tasks. Pair and group work activities are included and tasks are in response to three stimuli, a painting, a poem and a play text.