Drama is a unique tool to explore and express human feeling through voice, language and body. It is fundamental to human activity and can be done as an activity on its own or as an extension of another subject area.
Our approach is to discover each participant’s unique and individual motivations and build on them, encouraging relationships and creative play.
The benefits of Drama and Theatre techniques:
- Fun: fun is always money in the bank it improves motivation and reduces stress. Drama brings play, humor and laughter to learning Cooperation / Interaction: Drama presents a fun and safe way to interact and cooperate with others. Theatre combines the ideas and abilities of all its participants and this cooperative process includes discussing, negotiating, rehearsing and performing.
- Self-Confidence: Taking risks in drama workshops and performing for an audience teaches participants to trust their ideas and abilities.
- Imagination: To quote Einstein “Imagination is more important than knowledge” - Making creative choices, thinking of new ideas and interpreting familiar material in new ways is essential to drama.
- Empathy / Emotion recognition: Acting roles from different situations, time periods and cultures promotes compassion and tolerance for others’ feelings and points of view. Acting is about understanding emotions and how to express them.
- Concentration: Playing, practicing, rehearsing and performing develop a sustained focus of mind, body and voice.
- Communication Skills: Drama enhances verbal and nonverbal expression of ideas. It improves voice projection, articulation of words, fluency with language and persuasive speech. Listening and observation skills develop by playing drama games, being an audience and performing.
- Problem solving: Participants learn to communicate the WHO, WHERE, WHAT AND WHY to the audience. Improvisation fosters quick thinking solutions, which leads to greater adaptability in life.
- Emotional outlet: Pretend play and drama games allow participants to express a range of emotions. Aggression and tension are released in a safe controlled environment, reducing antisocial behaviour.
- Relaxation: Many drama activities reduce stress by releasing mental, physical and emotional tension.
- Self-Discipline: The process of moving from ideas to action to performances teaches the value of practice and perseverance. Drama games and creative movement improve self-control.
- Trust: The social interaction and risk taking in drama develop trust in self, others and the process.
- Memory: Rehearsing and performing words, movements and cues strength this skill type muscle.
- Social Awareness: Legends, myths, poems, stories and plays used in drama teaches participants about social issues and conflicts from cultures past and present all over the world.
- Physical fitness and sensory perception: Movement in drama improves flexibility, coordination, balance and control.
