Devising with Dickens Performing Arts characters and plot’

characters and plot’

The scheme includes activities which are cross-curricular

To extend personal skills in the negotiation

Difficult relationships

To use abstract dialogue to explore how addiction can take over someone’s entire life

Devising with Dickens Performing Arts characters and plot’My students find that one of the more difficult aspects of devising is the creation of a clearly defined character. Many are reluctant to be bold in their use of voice and movement and play characters which lack definition and are little more than pallid extensions of themselves. This scheme of work is aimed at encouraging students to make use of characters which are already fully formed and to perform bold, colourful characters who will interest an