Creative Drama
An improvisational, process-centered form of theatre in which participants are guided by a leader to imagine, enact, and reflect on human experiences
Creative Drama
A creative drama activity in which a leader reads a piece of literature while the entire group plays the action in unison without words
Narrative Pantomime
A playing/acting process to interpret and share a story by using improvisation rather than scripts
Story Dramatization
Acting out again
Replaying
How does creative drama differ from formal drama?
Creative Drama- improvised, focused on process
Formal Drama- scripted, focused on performance
Theatre that focuses on a performance in front of an audience as the important final product
Formal Drama
At the same time
In Unison
A storyteller
Narrator
Inner, personal qualities, invisible to the human eye
Internal Characteristics
Explain the difference between spontaneous action and scripted action.
Spontaneous is improvised
Non-scripted and spontaneous
Improvisational
The major character in a story
Protagonist
Put a story into your own words
Paraphrase
Qualities relating to a character's outwardly visible traits
External Characteristics
What's the difference between narrative pantomime and story dramatization?
Narrative Pantomime- movement only with a narrator reading a literary selection
Story Dramatization- dialogue and movement based on a story
A leader who actively participates in the creative drama process by playing one of the characters
Leader Playing in Role
Act out a meaning of a selection and understand it in a unique way
Interpret
Usually large items used to stage a scene or play
Set
Handheld items that are used in a performance to make a scene or play more believable
Props
Why is the process more important than the product in creative drama?
A method by which the leader talks you through an activity by making suggestions or giving you ideas
Side-Coaching
The quality of a story that gives readers and actors a deeper understanding about the human condition and human spirit through experiencing the story
Literary Merit
Description of what is happening while the actors pantomime the action of a story
Transition
The year I graduated from Terry
2013
Explain the creative drama process.
Read the story
Plan out the action
Play the scene
Evaluate the scene
Replay the scene