Drama Workshops

If you are imaginative and like stories you will very probably

love improvised Drama. Everyone has a character within the

story and everyone can put forward their ideas and suggestions

 for the group to try out !

Children are welcome to come along and try a workshop, before deciding to enrol for the term.

The Nursery and Primary 1-3 classes will learn many drama games which will help with understanding the importance of turn-taking, listening and speaking up when you have something to say. We will work in role with to guide creativity  tapping into the immense capacity that young children have for imaginative role-play and mime.

We will often use music, singing and dancing to expand self-expression and to enhance our shows !

The children will do a short presentation at the end of three terms.

The Junior classes will work on plays and stories through to a presentation at the end of term.

Once we have introduced a drama structure to the class, the group will work their own ideas into the improvisation.

We will  focus on specific drama skills  including mime, movement, speed and pacing, interview techniques, storytelling, role-play, documentaries, still images, voice projection, stance and selective scripting.

Each year we choose several of our Junior Drama groups to perform in our Day In the Theatre Experience.

 Senior and Teen Groups will also be working on presentations and shows but we will also be looking at more complex story lines, exploring human relationships in greater depth and looking at character development. We also find that our Senior groups love to do comedy, possibly humour being a very good comfort zone for those often difficult and self- conscious  early teenage years. See our Teenage Section.

While students are learning valuable presentation skills and becoming more confident, our aim is that the workshops should be fun where they can also can enjoy socialising with friends and making new ones !