This is a lesson focusing on Role on the Wall and Hot Seating. Pupils will encounter different characters via links and then get to imagine what it would be like being those people.
Characters include…
The Prime Minister
A Doctor teaching us how to wash our hands
Corona Virus Sufferers
NHS Staff
This is a lesson in which pupils work in 2s/3s working around the room to complete tasks on the main characters in the play. There is a worksheet provided in the lesson resource that can be printed out.
Afterlife is a play written for 6 performers and is a compelling, stylised and highly emotive piece of Drama. 6 people wake up in a room. They are strangers. As the play unfolds the characters realise they are related and connected to others in their previous lives. They are in limbo. There are two doors in the room. Through which door will they leave? The play deals with themes of homophobia, homosexuality, domestic abuse, bullying, teenage pregnancy and suicide. It has been performed as part of GCSE Edexcel Unit 3, gaining students the highest grades. It is also a great stimulus for devised/physical theatre work.
Collection on Hard to Swallow resources. They include a knowledge organiser, Top marks essays on acting questions for Anna and John, a top mark design answer staging the play on a proscenium arch stage and a theory lesson. As a thank you for buying the resource write a review and send me your email. I will send you a resource of your choice to the value of £2. My email is matthewcoe72@yahoo.co,uk.
This resource is a Powerpoint with over 20 pages of slides, notes and exemplar top mark answers for the Live Theatre questions in the exam. If your pupils have seen Blood Brothers and you want to support them in writing excellent responses in the exam this is a useful resource.
A detailed resource for pupils which equips them to be knowledgeable of key drama terminology from the perspectives of an actor, designer and director. Featuring photos for clarification and a tick list. This should prove very useful for pupils to embed the terminology within their responses with confidence and clarity.
This is an extract of a larger response to the 15 mark question in the exam. The full answer reflects on playing two contrasting extracts from the play.
5 slides of a wider resource of 4 lessons - directing the pupils to consider the genre of Theatre In Education and offering ideas and directions they might go in.
This is a set of slides giving a flavour of the content. In total there are 43 slides and at least 5 lessons of material. Each lesson pupils will be given a focus to base their work on. These incude spass, using props, montage etc - all Brechtian techniques.
An essay response to the exam question. It is set out clearly and explains how as an actor I would approach two contrasting extracts. It was written by myself, not a pupil and I would hope a response like this would generate 15 marks! I hope your pupils find it helpful for their revision.
This extract just covers motivation and voice for one extract. The essay itself is much longer than this.
This is a DIRT(Dedicated.Independent. Reflection. Time) file used successfully in KS3 and KS4 Drama lessons. Guided sentences and a range of key drama terminology enables pupils to naturally evaluate and write in an analytical way. Differentiated and helpful in allowing pupils of Drama to reflect on their own input into a lesson, performance and key learning.
This is a response to the 15 mark question on the Eduqas Gcse Drama paper for Mark Wheeler’s Set Text. It is set out clearly for the main 4 elements required to include:
Motivation
Voice
Movement
Interaction
It was not written by a pupil. It was written by the teacher as an exercise in what I would write if asked to sit the exam myself. Any feedback appreciated. I have answers for all 5 main characters to come!
This is a response to the 15 mark - playing the role of Anna in two contrasting parts. It covers the 4 elements required from the question.
Motivation
Voice
Movement
Interaction
It is not written by a pupil. It is written by myself. I wanted to go through the experience that pupils have to go through and answer the question myself. I welcome some feedback and hope it is helpful to your pupils.
76 Powerpoint Slides which will give pupils and teachers ideas and inspiration for the set and costume questions in the GCSE exam. There are guided questions as well as a range of past production photographs of the play which will enable pupils to see the play in a variety of ways.