Side lines

Alex Marker
Wednesday, January 14, 2004

Drama club leader Alex Marker outlines three exercises that aren't acting, but which will contribute to the whole process of theatre and a performance on stage In one of my year six groups there is a boy called William. At the beginning of any given session I usually start with several games and warm-up exercises. Inevitably, during or just after I have explained the rules for the next exercise, William will pipe up in mock indignation, 'Yes! But are we going to do any acting yet?' Over the term this phrase evolved into one of the group's in-jokes, perhaps highlighting the fact that what I set my groups often doesn't have any immediate correlation to performing a rehearsed part.