Key concepts

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Building tension

• Stage craft
• Wink murder

Character

• Annoying habits
• Attitudes
• Card status
• Channel changer
• Character bag
• Character props
• Day in the life of ...
• Follow the hand
• Hot seating
• Mask and face
• Passing the face
• Role-on-the-wall
• Sitting, standing, lying
• The door
• The group environment
• Thinking opposite
• Walking the walk
• Wink murder
• You’re sacked

Concentration

• Blind leading the blind
• Crazy cake walk
• Follow the leader
• Getting to know you
• Group race
• Introductions
• Laughing lions
• Numbers, numbers
• One, two, three, four
• Walking by numbers

Diction

• Choral speaking
• Tongue and lips
• Tongue-twisters

Discussion

• Brainstorming
• Card status
• Character bag
• Ideas collage
• Introducing stimuli
• Object recognition
• Role-on-the-wall
• Setting the scene
• Stage craft
• Summarise
• Vocabulary
• Zoom

Fun

• Cooperative musical chairs
• Laughing lions
• One, two, three, four
• SloMo tag

Genre

• Channel changer

Getting to know each other

• Getting to know you
• Knowing you, knowing me
• Stringing conversation together
• The name game

Group work

• All join in
• Blind leading the blind
• Brainstorming
• Call and response
• Card status
• Chain statues
• Choral speaking
• Consequences
• Cooperative musical chairs
• Crazy cake walk
• Create a warm-up
• Follow the hand
• Follow the leader
• Getting to know you
• Group knot
• Group picture
• Group race
• Hot seating
• Introductions
• Knowing you, knowing me
• Making the change
• Negative, positive
• Numbers, numbers
• Object recognition
• One, two, three, four
• Pass the mime
• Personal space
• Photo story
• Puppets
• Sitting, standing, lying
• Six episodes
• SloMo race
• SloMo tag
• Stage craft
• Story prompts
• Stringing conversation together
• The adverb game
• The machine
• Walking by numbers
• Zoom

Improvisation

• All join in
• Annoying habits
• Channel changer
• Consequences
• Day in the life of ...
• Different tones
• Give and take
• Group activity
• Human props
• Making the change
• Mask and face
• Object recognition
• Physical stimulus
• Puppets
• Setting the scene
• Sitting, standing, lying
• Story prompts
• The door
• The group environment
• You’re sacked

Lips, tongue and mouth

• Tongue and lips
• Tongue-twisters

Listening

• Crazy cake walk
• Getting to know you
• Numbers, numbers

Mime

• All join in
• Biggin’ it up
• Give and take
• Group activity
• Mask and face
• Pass the mime
• Passing the face
• Puppets
• SloMo tag
• The group environment
• The machine

Movement

• Attitudes
• Follow the leader
• Give and take
• Human props
• Physical stimulus
• SloMo tag
• The adverb game
• The group environment
• The machine
• Thinking opposite
• Walking by numbers
• Walking the walk

Performance skills

• Mask and face
• Tongue-twisters

Physical theatre

• Biggin’ it up
• Human props
• Mask and face
• Passing the face
• Puppets
• SloMo race

Response to stimuli

• Character props
• Ideas collage
• Introducing stimuli

Self-evaluation

• Targets

Stage craft

• Stage craft

Still image

• Chain statues
• Group picture
• Photo story
• Six episodes

Storytelling

• Annoying habits
• Channel changer
• Consequences
• Introducing stimuli
• Photo story
• Physical stimulus
• Six episodes
• Story prompts
• Wink murder
• Zoom

Text work

• Script writing
• You’re sacked

Trust

• Blind leading the blind
• Cooperative musical chairs

Use of space

• Group race
• Negative, positive
• Personal space
• Walking by numbers

Voice work

• Call and response
• Choral speaking
• Different tones
• Gibberish