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GCSE Drama Student/Teacher Page

GCSE Drama help and resources for students and teachers including
student samples of work, downloadable student resources and a list
of explorative strategies and conventions.

My Resources

Drama Diary Guidelines | Sample part of Paper 1 | Sample Drama Diary

Useful Links For students and teachers

Salem Witch Trials | Blair Witch Site | Crucible research
Willy Russell Site | Edexcel Exam Board | Edexcel Drama

Explorative Strategies/Keywords

Acting

Actor

Actress

Angels and Devils - This is a technique used in a play where there is a good and bad conscience telling the character what to do

Blocking - Is a term used to plan the movement of the actors. You can use a key to show where actors move to during each scene

Choral Speaking - Speaking or chanting at the same time, this can be narrated or part of a rhyme.

Convention - A skill or technique (Mime/In Role etc)

Costumes

Dialogue - Speech used in a play

Hotseating - Asking questions to someone who answer in role as the character, usually concentrating on feelings

Forum Theatre - Stopping the action and sugesting ways to improve it or taking over a role as a whole class usually.

Gesture - What we do with our hands on stage, for example waving, biting nails.

Image Theatre - An image that represent an idea or a concept or to symbolise an event. E.G: represent tired through gesture.

Improvising - Making it up as you go along, related to acting out a situation

Marking the moment - Chosing a significant turning point or specific moment of tension within the drama and highlighting it through freezes, or captions etc.

Mime - Acting without speaking

Monologue - The character directly speaks their thoughts and feelings to the audience during a play

Narration - Reading out a story, usually whilst others mime

Physical Theatre - Actors use their bodies to create the set, objects and animals and use their body movements as a major part of the play/scene

Props - Items used by the actors when on stage

Role Play - Performing a scene or play in role using a realistic scenario or re-enactment

Role On The Wall - An outline of a person is drawn on a large piece or roll of paper. You add a list of character traits inside the body or a list of a characters qualities. (Usually done alongside hotseating

Scene/scenario - A scene is a section of a play within an act or a short play extract, a scenario is a situation

Script - A play or text

Set - What the stage is on the stage, such as chairs, scenery, backdrops

Shared Narration - Splitting the narration up between everyone and sometimes speaking in unison like choral speaking.

Still Image - A freeze frame or a still picture in which the story is clear

Symbolism - This is where an object is used to symbol something, e.g; A candle to symbolise Jesus (ever-lasting light)

Thought Track - Saying what the character is thinking

Thought Tunnel - As a thought track, but one person walks down the middle of two lines of people as a character. The two lines say what the character is thinking or what others think about them