Resources
This section of the website will be devoted to providing some very practical resources for drama teachers. I will be adding to it as time allows in the future. If anyone would like to contribute to this section please contact me. I promise to give full acknowledgement to all those who make a contribution.
The following links are to downloadable pdf files. Click on the title to open the files for download.
The complete guidelines to organising a Charades session.
Double Glazed Window is a mime exercise that involves players trying to communicate a message to someone through a double glazed window. This is a collection of messages suitable for use with this exercise.
Help! is a warm-up exercise designed to help students express themselves more physically and vocally. It is also a vocal projection exercise. This is a collection of messages suitable for use with this exercise.
Dramatic tensions are the engine of any successful drama. Students need to know and understand how to utilise the various tensions that exist within a scene. This handout outlines the basic dramatic tensions.
Neutral scenes allow students to explore the same piece of text with different motivations, moods, characters, situations, relationships.
Tongue Twisters are great exercises to develop good articulation and ensure clarity in speech.
These are insults selected from a variety of Shakespeare plays. They should be used with senior students as warm-up exercise before work on script.
These are a collection of different roles that can be cut out of the downloaded sheet and handed to students as stimulus for scene play.
These are introductory lines for scenes. The sheet can be downloaded and the scene starters cut into strips to be handed to students as stimulus for scenes.
These are introductory lines to improvised stories. They can be downloaded, cut into strips and handed to students as stimulus for story telling.
Harry Tawse | 
July 15, 2009 9:04 am
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By Chelsea, November 2, 2011 @ 5:49 am
I have found your site so helpful! Thank you and keep up the good work!