Structuring Drama Work (3rd Edition)

Description

Structuring Drama Work is the only drama resource that explores 100 dramatic conventions and techniques and provides ideas for how to practise them.

Structuring Drama Work explains dramatic conventions and what they do, explores how dramatic techniques can be used, provides cultural connections and global contexts and includes examples of the techniques in the context of the plays and the texts. Its compact size and simple format make it convenient and easy to use.Structuring Drama Work is suitable for teachers of Cambridge IGCSE®, GCSE and for students studying at A Level, IB Diploma and beyond. Structuring Drama Work will give inspiration and ideas to students and give teachers, and others, the confidence to plan and structure effective drama learning based on clear examples of each convention in place.

Key Features

• Jonothan Neelands and Tony Goode are experienced and respected teachers and authors with a wealth of experience in the Drama and Theatre sphere.
• The simple format is ideal for teachers needing ideas and inspiration for lessons and for students needing guidance.
• This new edition contains 100 dramatic conventions with clear explanations of how they work in the context of a range of plays and their cultural connections.

Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements
2. Introduction
3. Part 1: A guide to dramatic conventions
   1. Section A: Context-building action
      1. Circle of life
      2. Circular drama
      3. Collective character
      4. Collective drawing
      5. Commission
      6. Defining space
      7. Diaries, letters, journals, messages
      8. First impressions
      9. Games
      10. Guided tour
      11. Making maps and diagrams
      12. Objects of character
      13. Role-on-the-wall
      14. Simulations, Soundtracking
      15. Still-image
      16. Theory building
      17. The iceberg
      18. The ripple
      19. Unfinished materials
   2. Section B: Narrative action
      1. A day in the life
      2. Critical events
      3. Everywoman
      4. Good angel/bad angel
      5. Gossip circle
      6. Hot-seating
      7. Interviews and interrogations
      8. Mantle of the expert
      9. Meetings, Noises off
      10. Overheard conversations
      11. Reportage
      12. Spotlighting
      13. Tag role
      14. Teacher-in-role
      15. Telephone or radio conversation
      16. Timeline
      17. Time will tell, Will they, won’t they?
   3. Section C: Poetic action
      1. Action narration
      2. Alter-ego
      3. Analogy
      4. Behind the scene
      5. Caption-making
      6. Ceremony
      7. Chamber theatre
      8. Come on down!
      9. Commedia dell’arte
      10. Cross-cutting
      11. Documentary
      12. Flashback
      13. Folk-forms
      14. Forum-theatre
      15. Genre switch
      16. Gestus
      17. Living newspaper
      18. Masks
      19. Mimed activity
      20. Montage
      21. Physical theatre
      22. Play within a play
      23. Prepared roles
      24. Reader’s theatre
      25. Re-enactment
      26. Reminiscence Theatre
      27. Revue, Ritual
      28. Role reversal
      29. Shape-shifting
      30. Small-group play-making
      31. Soundscape
      32. TV times
      33. Verbatim theatre
   4. Section D: Reflective action
      1. Are you moved? Builders of bridges
      2. Character box
      3. Choral speak
      4. Empathy knots
      5. Finger ballet
      6. Gestalt
      7. Gifting
      8. Giving witness
      9. Group sculpture
      10. Harmony
      11. If I were you…, Marking the moment
      12. Moment of truth
      13. Narration
      14. Postbox
      15. Power line
      16. Space between
      17. Spectrum of difference
      18. Taking sides
      19. This way/that way
      20. Thought shower
      21. Thought-tracking
      22. Voices in the head
      23. Wall of China
      24. Walls have ears
      25. Window on the world
4. Part 2: Structuring drama for learning opportunities
5. Part 3: Theatre as a learning process.