Instant Lessons in Drama - Book 2 aims to assist students and teachers by providing practical and theoretical lessons on a range of topics. Each lesson aims to integrate the strands of making drama, performing drama and critically appreciating drama by actively engaging students in experiential drama creation and presentations.
Topics include:
- Improvisation
- Establishing Place and Relationship
- Responding to Others
- Spatial Relationships
- Developing Character through Stage Directions
- Play building
- Drama in the News
- Celluloid Heroes
- Celluloid to Stage
- Commedia dell 'arte
- Masked and Unmasked Characters
- Developing a Physical Lazzi
- Clowning Around
- Elizabethan Theatre
- Audiences and the Prologue
- Macbeth
- Doctor Faustus
- Working with Text
- Songket by Noelle Janaczewska
- Staging Songket
- From the Page to the Stage
- Roles in Theatre Production
- Understanding Theatre Terms
This checklist highlights the major uses and benefits of the books:
Versatile Uses
- Supplementary classroom lessons
- Homework activities
- Reinforcement of learning
- Extension work for advanced students
- Preparation for assessment
- Exam revision
Teaching Benefits
- Creative teaching ideas
- Developing greater student interest and understanding
- A fresh approach to a topic or lesson
- A way of targeting student weaknesses
- Suitable for individual or group work
- A variety of activities for home study