Pick and Mix

Paul King

2664Paper-based / ePackAug 01
ISBN: Paper-based 978 1 85749 738 0; ePack 978 1 84070 461 7

• Ideal for AQA GCSE devising, improvisation and theatre in education
• Ideal for Edexcel GCSE Drama Paper 2
• 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 KS3/GCSE Drama Network Resources.

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