i was lucky. I went to a primary school that had a very enlightened drama teacher. He discussed method acting with our group, played trust games - and I recall a particularly memorable lesson based around Spike Milligan's post nuclear apocalypse film 'The Bed Sitting Room', in which all the characters mutate into pieces of furniture. Contrast this with the apathy my friends and I felt at high school when we were told that the term's theme would be - predicatably - bullying, drugs, teenage pregnancies or some other worthy cliche.
This is not to say that my drama sessions have never touched on relevant 'issues', but part of the challenge of running a drama club is producing a varied and interesting range of themes that will engage your group. To this end I have used newspaper articles, photographs, poems, letters, books, adverts, and even old shoes to provide the inspiration for drama classes.
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