WHY PLAY DRAMA GAMES?
At Adlib Young Performers in Berwick we play many drama games in our classes which are a lot of fun. We also play them because they develop wonderful skills including the following –
• Students learn to trust and develop their creative imaginations by playing engaging drama games.
• Observation and imitation are primary mechanisms for learning throughout infancy and childhood.
• People enact a number of different roles during their lifetimes, or even during the course of a single day.
• Preparing, rehearsing, and performing for important life events (e.g., a job interview, college application, or wedding) is a natural part of the human experience in any culture.
• Emotion, gestures, and imitation are universal forms of communication understood in all cultures.
• Theatre is a basic part of human existence; it should therefore be part of a basic education.
• Drama teaches students to imagine, explore, create, and share in front of others.
• Drama teaches interpretation, personal creativity, and new ways of looking at the same information (e.g., how to act out a familiar role or story such as Hamlet or The Tortoise and the Hare).
Drama is a universal form of human expression found in cultures all over the world and throughout history. Examples include Greek tragedies, Japanese Noh dramas, Italian commedia dell’arte, Balinese shadow puppet theatre, Native American mask rituals, and the French farce comedies.
Reference www.dramaEd.net