Junior & Secondary teachers. What drama workshops would best serve your curriculum?

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What would you most like from an experienced actor snd workshop leader? Are there any particular texts in the key stages which you feel would benefit a bit of treatment?

Or is there room within the PHSE subject for workshops on, for example, bullying?

I'm a secondary English and Drama teacher.

As an English teacher, what would be really useful is workshops on the popular GCSE play texts for English, as the assessment criteria requires pupils to have an awareness of stagecraft and the play in performance; difficult if they haven't seen it live. So texts like "Educating Rita" "A View From The Bridge" "Macbeth" where you focus on a couple of key scenes and pupils see them performed and then workshop around why the scenes are pivotal, how the writer shows this, creation of dramatic tension etc.

For GCSE drama sessions on physical theatre, moving from one scene to another with muinimal fuss, creation of atmosphere with really simple "sets" and "props" and non-naturalistic performance would be popular I think.

Thanks Janeite. Very useful.