Warm up exercises
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You may find this website by Gareth Pitchford useful for some warm up exercise ideas -
Useful reading
Two useful books for background reading on drama exercises and tools for this form of work are:
Games for Actors and Non-Actors
by Augusto Boal (2nd edition, 2002) Routledge. Price £17.99
Games for Actors and Non-Actors was written by the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed, Augusto Boal. It sets out the principles and practice of Boal's revolutionary method, showing how theatre can be used to transform and liberate everyone - actors and non-actors alike. This updated and substantially revised second edition includes: two new essays by Boal on major recent projects in Brazil; Boal's description of his work with the Royal Shakespeare Company; a revised introduction and translator's preface; a collection of photographs taken during Boal's workshops, specifically commissioned for this edition; and new reflections on Forum Theatre.
Structuring Drama Work - a handbook of available forms in theatre and drama
by Jonathan Neelands and Tony Goode (2000) Cambridge University Press. Price £17.99
Structuring Drama Work is a handbook for teachers of Drama. This revised edition takes into account developments in the teaching of Drama over the ten years since the first edition was published, whilst maintaining the successful existing framework. The authors have developed about thirty new conventions in the categories of Context, Narrative, Poetic and Reflective Drama. The original conventions have also been expanded to increase the range offered. Examples illustrating new conventions, and adding to existing ones, come from a range of dramatic and literary forms, often touching on drama in its social context. There are therefore many opportunities to teach cultural connections, citizenship and personal and social development using the ideas in this handbook. A new preface complements the updated and expanded text. This book is reviewed by practitioners to be accessible and highly usable.