Drama Games for Devising
eBook - ePub

Drama Games for Devising

  1. 160 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Drama Games for Devising

About this book

As part of the ever-growing, increasingly popular Drama Games series, Jessica Swale returns with another dip-in, flick-through, quick-fire resource book, packed with dozens of drama games that can be used in the process of devising theatre.

The games will be invaluable to directors and theatre companies at all levels who are creating new pieces of theatre from scratch and need lively, dynamic games to fire the imagination. They will particularly appeal to school, youth theatre and community groups where devising is a growing trend – and a core element of the drama curriculum.

Written with clear instructions on How to Play, notes on the Aim of the Game, and illuminating examples from professional productions, the games cover every aspect of the devising process and develop all the skills required: generating ideas, creating characters and scenarios, using stimuli, structuring the piece, and creating an ensemble.

Mike Leigh, the most dedicated and celebrated creator of devised work, hails the book in his foreword as 'highly original and massively useful'.

'A remarkable compendium of games and exercises… a lively starting point for rich invention' Mike Leigh, from his Foreword

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INDEX OF GAMES
SKILLS
NUMBERS REFER TO GAMES NOT PAGES
Analysis
33.
Animal Instincts
26.
Archetypes
13.
Bricolage
10.
Coward’s Adverbs
42.
Deconstruction
45.
The Dramagraph
44.
The Gallery Game
39.
Gas Ring
27.
Hydra
15.
Marbles
29.
Match Point
24.
Painting by Numbers
22.
Site Specifics
20.
Sound of the Underground
31.
Stan’s Game
43.
Where Am I?
Articulation
52.
Neither Up Nor Down
54.
Tongue-Twisters
55.
Trinidada
53.
Vowel Jazz
Awareness
2.
Big Booty
1.
Hammertime!
27.
Hydra
51.
Narrative Ring
32.
Sir Anthony!
5.
Synchronicity
43.
Where Am I?
Breath Control
47...

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Contents
  4. Dedication
  5. Foreword
  6. Introduction
  7. Stage One: Preparation
  8. Stage Two: Generation
  9. Stage Three: Exploration
  10. Stage Four: Distillation
  11. Stage Five: Presentation
  12. Index of Games
  13. About the Author
  14. Other Titles in the Series
  15. Copyright Information