Group Devising for School Groups

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Request a Belvoir workshop for your school group. Belvoir artists guide your students through their artistic process and provide expertise on devising and performance practices. Delivered specifically for students embarking on their Drama Group Project, exploring playbuilding techniques or the Individual Project: Performance, exploring how to approach a monologue.

Group Devising Students explore tools to devise their own piece of theatre – shaping ideas into a structure, transitioning between moments, and developing a dynamic process.

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Group Devising

Students explore tools to devise their own piece of theatre – shaping ideas into a structure, transitioning between moments, and developing a dynamic process.

Performing Monologues

Students learn to identify the elements of a successful monologue performance – exploring character, goal, audience, action, circumstance and staging through fun, practical activities.

Improvisation

Students explore the skills and techniques of improvisation – learning to trust their intuition, harness their creative impulses, and work with one another.

Playwriting

Students explore ways to unearth ideas, create surprising characters, and build dramatic tension.

Directing

Students explore how to transform a dramatic text into a theatrical production – from selecting a text and working with a design team to auditioning actors and managing rehearsals.

Stage Management

Students learn what it takes to work behind the scenes – running the rehearsal room, cueing the lights, and organising the actors.

Set Design

Students learn how to tackle a director’s brief and translate their ideas into a sketch model box.

Costume Design

Students explore effective costume design, the role of costume in the overall production, and the tools available to a costume designer – including line, colour and texture.

Brecht & Political Theatre

Students are introduced to Brecht’s techniques and influence – devising their own piece of political theatre and exploring connections between Brecht’s theories and modern theatrical processes.