Drama Lesson Thirteen

Drama Lesson Thirteen
For this performance, we have decided to adapt it so that the children would be able to understand it better. I felt that the changes that we made helped to make the stories clearer so that the children became less confused and enjoyed it more.

We decided to move the spots on the floor, which create the path over the 'lava floor' so that it is easier for the children the cross and then they are following my lead rather than jumping onto which ever ones they can reach first; it also helps they cross in a safer way due to the spots being very slippery if the children jump on then, so if they are following me then I know that it is safe for the children to cross because I have crossed it before them.

In the morning performance, we made the children line up in front of me, however, we didn't consider the position of the path when we lined the children up so I had to stop to let the children pass because otherwise I would have walked through their line and then they would have become confused. We changed this in the performance that afternoon, we placed the spots so that they created more of a straight line rather than a long winded on; we then asked them to line up infant of me, facing the start of the spots so that there would be no crossing through the line that they had created. This worked better because they followed me rather than just walking were they wanted and it was all played out very clearly so it was easy for them to follow.