Dramatic Storytelling Workshop is designed in simple English for either groups of children aged 6-11 or teenagers 12-19. Through comedy, games and improvisations, Nick encourages students to tell their own stories in a fun, safe context. Dramatic Storytelling Workshop is designed to use acting techniques and improvisational games to create original stories made up and spoken by the students themse
lves guided by Nick. It’s good for promoting confidence in young people as they explore complex ideas, allowing them to access their own creativity, write immediately in the way they speak and help them perform their own stories. After warm-up games, it starts with ‘insta-stories’ going around a circle, one line at a time. Nick will show the dynamics of high status versus low status, how it underpins every interaction and how necessary it is to plug it into scenes. For the group improvs, he’ll show each team-of-four a photo of a location or a person, an object they pick at random from a bag and a line of dialogue. They invent on the spot and perform it as they go or alternatively take three minutes to spitball the idea and then perform it. He’ll play games like ‘Three-Headed Expert’, ‘Speed Impersonation’, ‘Press Conference’, ‘Two Truths, One Lie’ and ‘Dreamweaver’ all as ways of illustrating just how easy it is to create story in the moment. Nick designs each workshop in advance tailored to the specific needs and interests of the particular group. Nick also supplies scenes he’s written and directs them in the same way he would professional actors. Everyone who wants to tell an individual story, no matter how short or subtle has the chance to do so. Nick points out the path through the woods and gives or invites stimulus whenever anyone gets stuck. Storytelling is easy when you dive right in.
