Learn more about drama and working as a team using these activities.

How did we get here?
Get into a small group for this activity. The closing line of the scene is: "You can keep it!" What were the previous five lines of dialogue?

Where/what/how
Improvising makes you think on your feet and can be lots of fun. It also teaches you a lot about working in groups and the different ways that people react to certain situations. Get into a small group and develop a short scene around one of these ideas.

You will need a director, and the actors will need to decide who they are, where they are, what they are doing, and why they are doing it.

Place: A railway station
Subject: A farewell

Place: A shopping mall
Subject: Confrontation

Place: A boat
Subject: Rowing
Style: Humorous

Place: A rooftop
Subject: Rescue
Style: Heroic

Role and freeze-frames
On Creative Explorer, you will have looked at what freeze-frames are and how they work. You might like to get into groups to explore role-playing through the use of freeze-frames. Taking a role is about the ability to "step into another person's shoes" and imagine how they respond in a particular situation.

Select from a newspaper or magazine some photographs of a group of people. Each member of the group chooses a person to represent. As a group, decide where this event is taking place, why it is taking place, and what the event is. Each person now decides who they are and why they are there.

Make a freeze-frame of the photograph and explore what each person is thinking, feeling, and saying. Make two more freeze-frames of these people - one thirty seconds before the photograph was taken and the other thirty seconds after the photograph was taken. Again, discuss what each person is thinking, feeling, and saying.