This book provides a multitude of practical ideas for teachers and student teachers of drama and for those who are interested in using drama to teach other subjects. It takes the form of a detailed discussion of twenty-five drama techniques, each accompanied by practical examples of lessons and illustrated by an extract from a play.
Introduction; Alternative perspective (Priestley, An Inspector Calls);
Analogy (Brecht, Galileo); Beginnings (Chekov, Three Sisters); Counterpoint
(O'Casey, The Plough and The Stars); Endings (Wertenbaker, Our Country's
Good); Exposition (Ibsen, Hedda Gabler); Externalising inner conflict
(Marlowe, Dr Faustus); False identity (Rattigan, Separate Tables;
Shakespeare, Othello); Framing action (Miller, The Crucible); Incongruity
(Churchill, Top Girls); Irony (Shakespeare, Macbeth); Mime (Shaffer, The
Royal Hunt of the Sun); Minimal context (Beckett, Waiting for Godot); Minor
characters (Stoppard, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead); Monologue
(Bennett, A Chip in the Sugar); Narration (Bolt, A Man for all Seasons);
Object focus (Galsworthy, The Silver Box; Wilde, Lady Windermere's Fan;
Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night's Dream); Reported action (Sophocles,
Oedipus); Ritual (Yeats, On Baile's
