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DRAMA WORKSHOPS
FOR YOUNG PEOPLE

Separated into two age categories:-

Young people aged around 12 to 25 years - click here

Children aged around 6 to 12 years - see below
 

Drama for Children aged around 6 to 12 years
 

INFORMATION

The following workshops unless otherwise stated can be delivered in one day or the equivalent. They can also be adapted into bigger projects.  The age range is from 6 year olds upwards for most workshops. I can also tailor make a drama workshop to suit a theme you are interested in.  For more information and advice please contact Hilary Lewis through the website.

Villainous Villains & Heroic Heroes

Comedy improvisation and performance

 Thrillingly theatrical and totally over the top, this workshop on Melodrama will help you create your own hilarious cartoon capers. Follow in the footsteps of Batman and Robin, Dick Dastardly, Crueller Deville and many more and put them into a performance that includes music and mayhem, slapstick and evil laughter.

Talking wardrobes

An introduction to physical Theatre

If wardrobes could talk, what would they say?  If televisions told you what to watch, what would they choose? Without the use of set, props, costume or magic trickery you can become the answer to these questions and more. Push the boundaries of theatre to the ‘final frontier’ with this surreal workshop.

Dreaming In Colour

Shadow puppets

For all those creative and crafty people, this workshop not only gives you the opportunity to make your own shadow puppets and devise your own story, but set it to music and perform on a small cinema style screen. Colourful animation to take your breath away.
 

The Legend Of Tutankhamun

Role-play and performance

Travel in Egypt to the Valley of the Kings. As an archaeologist you will discover the true story of how the tomb of the boy king ‘Tutankhamun’ was found. But beware the curse of the pharaohs!!

The Pied Piper Of Hamlin

Improvisation and performance

“Rat’s – they fought the dogs and killed the cats and bit the babies in the cradles……”

Travel through this wondrous story acting out various characters, including the rats. Follow the Pied Piper as he goes inside the mountain. You decide weather to return or not from this mystical, magical journey.
 

The Magic Carpet

Guided Fantasy & movement to music

Magic, Mystery and adventures beyond your wildest dreams! Travel to new lands on a magic carpet in search of Fairy Bubbles and the Evil Joker. Make your own ultra violet sea creatures that guard the crystal caves and perform with them at the culmination of this dramatic adventure.
 

Mask Madness

Mask making and performance

This course runs for a minimum of two days.  Create your own character, make your own mask and perform a short devised performance with it. From its origins in Commedia dell’ arte to modern day cartoon capers this workshop is fun, artistic and hilariously funny.

Treasure Island

Based on the book by Robert Louis Stevenson

Taking elements of the book we will be looking at creating our own performances involving buried treasure, dastardly pirates, maps, sailing ships, sea shanties and of course, the black spot!  But what shall we do with the drunken sailor?

The Secret Diary

Based on the story of Anne Frank

Learn about the true story of Anne Frank and aspects of the holocaust. Bring the story to life and experience some of the realities that Anne had to face in the attic. This workshop combines a mixture of seriousness with creative elements of hope, dreams and wishes. A school play and follow up lessons are available to buy direct from the author, Hilary Lewis.  This is suitable for yr 6 pupils upwards.

Drama for Young people aged around 12 to 25 years

Dramatic Variations

This workshop is aimed at people who have never had any experience of drama before.   It provides a safe and fun environment in which to explore dramatic creativity and self-expression.  All the exercises are relatively short and easy.  The workshop contains the following elements:-
confidence and communication building, mime, movement, status, self expression, spontaneous and rehearsed improvisation, individual, pair and team work, creativity and critical thinking.

Unmasking the Mask

This workshop combines the world of mask and drama.  The group will be led step by step through the process of devising their own mask character and creating a short and simple performance.  the workshop includes the following elements:-
characterisation, a brief history of European mask looking at Commedia del arte, non-verbal body language, status exercises, vocal techniques, use of imagination, devising short performance pieces; making choices and developing dramatic ideas with originality and structuring them for performance; development of clarity, spatial awareness, physical control, timing and pace.

Physical Theatre

This workshop explores the acting style of Victorian melodrama through the creation of comedy improvisations.  It includes the use of the student's own bodies to become physical objects.  There is a slightly surreal element to this non-naturalistic style of drama.  The seminar includes the following elements:-
mine, storytelling, narration, improvisation, pair and group work, imagination, exaggerated and synchronised movement, sound effects, music and performance.

Soundscapes - Art and Music

This workshop takes the group through the process of turning artwork into music and culminates in a performance of their own pictures as a percussion piece.  The workshop uses the following elements:-
art and design, working individually and in small groups creatively, structuring ideas for performance, team work, percussion skills, learning about graphic scores, writing music graphically, vocal techniques, performance.

Poetic Symphony - Music and Poetry

This workshop links the music and creative expression with a set of easy steps to performance of a poem set to music.  The workshop contains the following elements:-
creative writing, structuring written work around a given theme, exploration of language and sound, percussion skills, devised and rehearsed instrument playing, structuring work in small groups and independently of the tutor, clarity, fluency, control, timing, pace and dynamics.

Dreaming in Colour - shadow puppets and performance

This workshop involves the group devising their own story, making shadow puppets and performing on a small cinema style screen.  The end result will be a colourful animated story set to music.  The workshop contains the following elements:-
teamwork, storytelling, art and craft skills, working in small groups creatively, structuring ideas for performance, puppetry techniques, organising technical elements, finding appropriate music and sound effects.

Remember, we can design a workshop to suit your brief.
 

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