Pick and Mix

Paul King

38 / 3064Paper-based / ePack
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 738 0; ePack 978 1 84070 461 7

• A varied toolkit for devising drama
• Can be used as standalone lessons
• Useful for group work

A wealth of ideas

Devising a piece of drama is a key component in all GCSE and AS/A-Level specifications. Pick and Mix gives teachers and students the structures and techniques to enable them to devise plays using non-naturalistic, stylised and physical theatre forms. The structures are taught as units; students pick from the units and mix them together to produce the complete play.

Note that this product is also available as part of the Digital Library for Drama KS4.

Contents

Introduction

The pick and mix approach

Devising structures

• Advert theatre
• Duologue
• Entrances and exits
• Farce
• The chase
• Film-trailer theatre
• Image of the abstract
• In the style of...
• Masks
• Crosstalk
• Monologue
• Physicalised monologue
• Self-narration
• Music and movement
• News-report theatre
• Presentation
• Freeze-frame
• Comic-book theatre
• Drama clips
• Prologue theatre
• Thirty-second theatre
• Links

Example scenarios

• The Three Little Pigs
• Dreams
• Childhood
• A refugee
• The Alabama bus boycott
• The Mary Celeste
• Experiences of World War Two
• Three scenes from a relationship

Appendix

• Handout 1: Physicalised monolgue - Example texts
• Handout 2: News-report theatre - Account of the sinking of the Titanic
• Handout 3: Drama clip - Extract from Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens

References