Explorative Stratergies 2

Role-play Role-play is what you do when you're pretending to be another person and using your imagination to speak, think and even feel like that character.

Cross-cutting Cross-cutting is what you do after you've created a series of scenes or sequences, and you re-order them to create a drama that goes forwards and backwards in time.

Hot-seating Hot-seating is a way of developing (or deepening) character. If you are in the hot-seat you answer questions from others in the group while you are 'in role'.

Forum theatre Forum theatre is a technique you can use while acting out a scene. The group watching is encouraged to stop the action when they think it necessary, to suggest a different action. At other times, the actors themselves can stop the action, and ask for help. Sometimes someone else can step in and take over a role - or even introduce a new one.

Marking the moment Marking the moment can happen when a scene has been created, and the group decides it's a significant moment in the drama, and they want to show this in some way.

At times things happen in a scene very quickly - and yet we know these moments can change the whole direction of a drama. This is when something is needed to emphasize the moment. We could use a spotlight to literally 'highlight' the moment. We could insert a thought-track. We could slow down time, or use a still image/freeze-frame. We could use narrating by another actor, or self-narrating, to draw the audience's attention to this moment.

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