Popular books

Sessions are based around a number of popular books and designed to reinforce children's' experiences with literature.

• Re-capping and enacting the story
• Hot-seating and character role-play
• Improvisations around the themes of the story
• Group discussion and what we have learnt.

Books include: Angry Arthur, The Highway Rat, The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, Where the Wild Things Are, The Gingerbread Man, The Gruffalo and others.

Also new Roald Dahl workshops on Matilda, James and the Giant Peach, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Boy: Tales of Childhood, The Giraffe the Pelly and Me, The Twits, George's Marvellous Medicine and The BFG.

Shakespeare

Written from an actor's perspective, this workshop focuses on Romeo and Juliet or A Midsummer's Night Dream to reveal Shakespeare's legacy and why he is still relevant today.

Children will:

• Learn the types of plays Shakespeare wrote and the key differences between a comedy, tragedy and a history play
• Discover how to orientate around a professional stage with training in Stage Left, Stage Right, Up Stage, Down Stage and Centre Stage
• Freeze-frame iconic scenes of each play
• Learn the difference between Iambic Pentameter and Catalectic Trochaic Tetrameter
• Play the Cue Feeding game to discover how actors learnt their lines back in the day
• Learn and rehearse a specially written song based on one of the plays

Learning objectives:

• To speak audibly and fluently with an increasing command of standard English
• To participate in role play

World Book Day

Bring a book to life on World Book Day 2024 with a Perform drama-based workshop.

We'd love to take your children on a fantastic fictional journey to celebrate World Book Day. Our trained actors will bring the magic of a story to life through acting, character role-play and improvisation.

Just choose which books you'd like us to bring to life (we can even explore a different book for each class).

See below for some of the plans we offer.

Alice in Wonderland, Angry Arthur, Beware of the Storybook Wolves, Boy, Charlie & the Chocolate Factory, Chocolate Cake, Dirty Bertie, Flotsam, George's Marvellous Medicine, James & the Giant Peach, Matilda, The BFG, The Butterfly Lion, The Highway Rat, The Lighthouse Keeper's Lunch, The Magic Finger, The Pirates Next Door, The Rainbow Fish, The Twits, The Wind in the Willows, The Wizard of Oz, Voices in the Park, Where the Wild Things Are

Each workshop lasts 50 minutes for a class of up to 30 children. We can cover 3 books in half a day or 5 books in a full day.

Alice in Wonderland

Tumble down the rabbit hole with Alice into the magical world of Wonderland and well-known characters including the Mad Hatter, Cheshire Cat, Queen of Hearts and the White Rabbit.

• Learn the secret Wonderland language
• Help free the Knave of Hearts imprisoned inside the Queen of Heart's Throne Room
• Sing the 'Follow that Rabbit' Song
• Take part in a chat show at the Mad Hatters Tea Party