Forum theatre: Interesting things happen on the way

In developing characterisation, students often become precious about their first roles and are unable to develop them fully to drive a story. Forum theatre is a technique that requires students to develop characters, yet be flexible and inventive enough to adapt, or even change them altogether. This scheme opens up the flexibility required to make good character-driven drama that can be comical, serious or convey a message.

Learning objectives
By the end of this scheme, learners will have:

• Explored developing characters and progressed it further by bringing in external factors
• Considered how plot is driven by evolving characters
• Developed collaborative and solo characterisation skills.

Number of lessons: 6