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Scheme of Work
Topic
o Introduction to devising theatre
o Students will begin to understand the
process of devising theatre
o Students will use improvisation as a way to
devise theatre
o Students will demonstrate a good
understanding of how to analyse a stimulus

Assessment Methods
Discussions
Question and answer
Observation
Peer assessment
Self-assessment

Resources
Devising Theatre Booklet:
o SoW
o Stimuli

o Students will choose their final stimulus for

their devised theatre performance
o Students will have a better understanding
of genre, style and conventions
o Students will begin to engage with what is
expected in terms of staging, setting, props
and costume
o Students will have thought of their final
idea for their performance and began to
think about staging, setting, props and
costume

Discussion
Question and answer
Observation
Self-assessment
Peer-assessment

Devising Theatre Booklet:

o Stimuli
o Genre, style and
conventions document
o Staging, setting, props
and costume document
o Mind mapping document

o Students will begin to understand the

character that they have created
o In groups students must plan different
scenes for their devised performance from
beginning to end before getting up and
rehearsing
o Begin with rehearsals by using
improvisation, or writing a script

Discussion
Question and answer
Observation
Self-assessment
Peer-assessment

Devising Theatre Booklet:

o Character monologue
document
o Devising theatre
document
o Costume design
document
o Set design document

o Students will begin fully staging their

performances
o I will be having tutorials with each group

Discussion
Observation

o Students will have a good chunk of

rehearsal time, this should also include a
dress run
o Students will perform their devised theatre
pieces

Discussion
Observation

o Props list document

Devising Theatre Booklet

Devising Theatre Booklet

What Does Devising Theatre Mean to

You?

Stimulus #1

Questions to Think about?

What is happening?

Who are they?

How do they feel?

What are they thinking?

Stimulus #2

Stimulus #3

Stimulus #4

I dreamed I was back in the playground; I was about four feet

high
Yes I dreamed I was back in the playground, standing about
four feet high
Well the playground was three miles long and the playground
was five miles wide
It was broken black tarmac with a high wire fence all around
Broken black dusty tarmac with a high fence running all around
And it had a special name to it, they called it The Killing Ground
Got a mother and a father they're one thousand years away
The rulers of the Killing Ground are coming out to play
Everybody thinking: Who they going to play with today?
Well you get it for being Jewish
And you get it for being black
You get it for being chicken
And you get it for fighting back
You get it for being big and fat
Get it for being small
Oh those who get it get it and get it
For any damn thing at all
Sometimes they take a beetle, tear off its six legs one by one
Beetle on its black back, rocking in the lunchtime sun
But a beetle cant beg for mercy, a beetles not half the fun
I heard a deep voice talking, it had that iceberg sound
It prepares them for Life - but I have never found
Any place in my life worse than The Killing Ground

Stimulus #5

Stimulus #6

Stimulus #7
Two roads diverged in a yellow wood

And sorry I could not travel both

And be one traveller, long I stood
And looked down one as far as I could
To where it bent in the undergrowth;
Then took the other, as just as fair
And having perhaps the better claim
Because it was grassy and wanted wear
Though as for that the passing there
Had worn them really about the same
And both that morning equally lay
In leaves no step had trodden black
Oh, I kept the first for another day!
Yet knowing how way leads on to way
I doubted if I should ever come back
I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I
I took the one less travelled by
And that has made all the difference

Stimulus #8

Stimulus #9

Stimulus #10

Initial Response
to Stimulus!

Initial Ideas
Staging:

Genre:

Style:

Conventions you could use:

Setting:

Props:

Costume:

Character Monologue

Further Ideas