State Drama Festival 2021 – Virtual

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Creative Resource Drama

Engage in drama extension activities through our resources. Explore units of work based on the Year 9, Year 10 and Senior Drama Ensemble pieces and enjoy our curated collection of our most popular and relevant Art Bites and Creative Classes. Continue your drama journey from the audience to the actor, designer, critic and author.

Contacts
The drama team
The Arts Unit
drama.artsunit@det.nsw.edu.au
02 8512 1175

Explore these resources as a class or as an individual. Get the most of your viewing by using a resource and completing the activities.

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Resources for teachers

The Primary Play Book

Creative Resource Drama
Teachers
Explore drama in your classroom with this compilation of scripts from the NSW Public Schools State Drama Festival.

Improvisation and playbuilding

Creative Resource Drama
Primary teachers
Discover how to use images, text, ideas and stories as a starting point for drama pieces.

Creating a piece for drama festivals

Creative Resource Creative Teachers Drama
Primary teachers
Experienced teachers deconstruct their state drama festival plays.

Secondary group devising techniques

Creative Teachers Drama
Years 7 to 12 drama teachers
Interviews with experienced drama teachers.

Secondary drama warm-ups for ensembles

Creative Teachers Drama
Secondary drama teachers
Explore engaging ways to start any drama session.

Filming a drama ensemble performance

Creative Teachers Drama Film
Teachers
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Resources for primary students

Drama games K-2 – Movement and mime

Video

Drama warm-ups for performance

Video

Drama props

Art Bites Drama
Primary drama

Characterisation

Art Bites Creative Teachers Drama
Secondary drama

Radio play

Art Bites Drama
Secondary drama
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Resources for secondary students

Improvising the future

Creative Class Drama
Years 7 to 10 drama
Explore improvisation with the NSW Public Schools Senior Drama Ensemble 2021

Theatrical reinventions

Creative Class Drama
Years 7 to 10 drama
Explore theatrical styles and be inspired by the NSW Public Schools Year 10 Drama Ensemble 2021

Devise with insight

Creative Class Drama
Years 7 to 10 drama

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Devise drama inspired by the work of the NSW Public Schools Year 9 Drama Ensemble 2021

Drama warm-ups for performance

Art Bites Drama
Students and teachers

Characterisation

Art Bites Creative Teachers Drama
Secondary drama

Antonin Artaud

Art Bites Creative Teachers Drama
Secondary drama
Explore the influences and elements of Artaud's Theatre of Cruelty.

Uta Hagen's object exercises

Video

Creating a detective story with props

Video

An approach to scriptwriting

Video
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