Join us this Summer Term 2024
This is a creative drama class for teenagers focusing on ensemble improvisation. We build up student’s skills and confidence through improvisation games and exercises leading to a theme from which we develop a plot together, leading to a performance to parents. We are fortunate to hold our classes on the Merlin Theatre stage. This provides an inspirational setting and helps us to both create an atmosphere and to introduce performance elements. During the last year we have created a murder mystery, a haunting story about a train travel to a different dimension, a comic drama based on BBC’s Outlaws, ‘The Cost of Living’, a drama about the battle for a person’s soul and more recently a dramatic comedy called “Why People Scream”, about an author who starts seeing the characters from his books in real life!
At 4.45pm – 5.45pm at The Merlin Theatre on Wednesday 1st May 2024 for 10 weeks. Final session Wednesday 10th July 2024.
NOTE: We will not be running sessions during the half term break.
We are a responsive Drama company, dedicated to helping children create and and realise ideas from their own imagination, leading to a performance at the end of term, which we will aim to share.
At DK we follow the mantra ‘Just Be’. For us this encompasses the idea that all students will be accepted for what they are. It also provides a strong link to well-being. We aim to help our students achieve mental stillness and awareness of self and others within the workshop space and stage in order to help them develop their improvisation skills.
DK classes involve collaborative improvisation, intrigue and problem solving. The student is at the heart of everything we do and we see it as our mission to help to individuals to find their own voice by being enabled to work without inhibition in a safe environment in which their ideas are given prominence and shape.
We also engender effective team building through the vehicle of drama/theatre and the immersive approach we take. We are developing links with Fair Frome and local schools, offering assisted places in order to reach out to members of the community who may have less experience of drama and theatre.