Definitions

 Action/plot/content (the story, the characters and/or the theme(s) of the drama).
􀁲 Forms (the way the story is told, the characters are portrayed and/or the themes are depicted).
􀁲 Climax/anti-climax (building and/or releasing tension in the drama and/or a sense of
expectation).
􀁲 Rhythm/pace/tempo (the rate at which the action moves along and the extent to which this changes).
􀁲 Contrasts (for example stillness versus activity/silence versus noise).
􀁲 Characterisation (the means used to portray a role using vocal and physical skills).
􀁲 Conventions (using techniques such as slow motion, freeze-frame, audience asides, soliloquy, establishing one part of the space as one location and a different part of the space as another).
􀁲 Symbols (the representational use of props, gestures, expressions, costume, lighting, and/or setting. For example, blue lighting to represent night time, a white costume to represent the innocence of a character).
Still image (for example one person might act as a sculptor and position individuals in the group in relation to one another to create a still image).
􀁲 Thought-tracking (stopping individuals during an in-role activity and asking them to reveal their inner thoughts at that particular moment).
􀁲 Narrating (providing a spoken commentary that accompanies stage action, or a story being related by a character).
􀁲 Hot-seating (a technique used to deepen an actor’s understanding of a role. The individual sits in the ‘hot-seat’ and has questions !red at them that they then answer from the point of view of their character).
􀁲 Role play (an individual pretends to be someone else by putting themselves in a similar position and imagining what the person might say, think and feel).
􀁲 Cross-cutting (creating a scene(s) and then re-ordering the action by ‘cutting’ forwards and backwards to different moments).
􀁲 Forum-theatre (a scene is enacted and watched by the rest of the group. At any point in the drama, observers or actors can stop the action to ask for help or refocus the work. Observers can step in and add a role or take over an existing one).
􀁲 Marking the moment (having created a piece of drama work, individuals identify a significant moment in the piece. This can be done in discussion, marked by freezing the action, using captions, inner thoughts spoken out loud, using lighting to spotlight the
moment, etc. The moment will be significant for the individual in terms of revealing an understanding, an insight or evoking a feeling about the issue or idea being explored).