Workshops Based on Productions
It is particularly rewarding if they are based on our current productions. Therefore, it is strongly recommended that workshops be booked in conjunction with one or more of our plays.
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The workshops also contain an element which has been devised to accompany the different plays:
Those who see the Story of Aesop’s Fables will be given a list of morals and asked to select one, but not disclose it to the other groups. They will be asked to create a short sketch to demonstrate the particular moral.
Those who see Henry VIII, will be encouraged to develop characters drawing from the play and curriculum activities and depict a short scene illustrating life during the Tudor period.
Storyboard sheets will also be used for those who have seen Search for the Lost Tomb, and again they will be encouraged to develop characters and depict a short scene illustrating life during Ancient Egypt, drawing from the play and curriculum activities.
A similar approach will apply with any of our other productions.
Workshops Delivery
There will be a warm-up programme with theatre games culminating in a run-around to create small random groups in which they will remain. Storyboard sheets will be distributed to each group.
At all times the emphasis will be on working closely with other members of the group and recognising that each has an important part to play. When the groups have rehearsed their playlets they will be performed to the others, and will receive comment and advice from the actors. A short discussion will then ensue with the opportunity to question and recap on what they have learned.
