DRAMA SPACES - Youth Arts Programme

dramaspaces6 18/8/05 4:25 PM Page 56Once your young people are ready to get on their feet and play with their script on the workshop floor,remember the exercises we have done:• Play around with the status levels in scenes.• Play out parallel scenes, scenes we don’t see but are referred to in the text or take place before or afterevents.• Use still images of the themes/emotions in the text.Still images can help the group be aware of theirown blocking.•Try hot-seating the characters or using role on the wall.• Remember to find games that suit the text. For example, with ‘Sparkleshark’ you might play ‘Sword andBuckler’, an exercise in which the group walks around the space.Ask each person, without speaking, toselect someone they want to stay close to in the group as they walk around. Once they have done this,ask them to select someone that they want to stay as far away from as possible, as well as trying tostay close to the other.56