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After a career in children's theatre, various teaching roles, teaching secondary drama and performing arts and a period in politics, I now write drama resources and am a senior examiner.

After a career in children's theatre, various teaching roles, teaching secondary drama and performing arts and a period in politics, I now write drama resources and am a senior examiner.
Devise a School Production!
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Devise a School Production!

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Rather than spend hours trying to find the perfect script for a whole school production at the right royalty price that is available in your area on the dates you want, why not devise a show? Use the awesome power of teenage devised drama on a theme or not to create a challenging, absorbing and rewarding production for your school.
School Drama from Devised Drama
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School Drama from Devised Drama

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For the teacher ready to experiment with a school show from student devised material, this has a detailed introduction followed by 12 sections with tips, ideas and frameworks for devising and working up productions on themes, including the 1960s, characters, practitioners, local history, teenage angst, the generations, messages, literature, TV and film and ground-breaking ideas.
School Productions from Devised Drama
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School Productions from Devised Drama

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The full set of how to create secondary school productions through drama devising. A wide range of stimulus starting points and case studies of work that has already been developed to production standard. Try something different from the usual for your school show this year!
School Productions from Devised Drama: Intro
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School Productions from Devised Drama: Intro

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Over 200 ideas for teachers to develop creative school shows and productions from original devised drama as a challenging change from using published scripts. This is the Introduction to the whole resource. There are 12 further focused sections. It is mainly aimed at Key Stages 3, 4 and 5, but some of the projects could adapt for KS2.