Wheellerplays Exemplified

Using extracts from plays such as ‘Hard to Swallow’, ‘Too Much Punch for Judy’ and ‘Missing – Dan Nolan’ a range of performance techniques and devices are shown. For those who do not use or are unfamiliar with Mark’s plays this DVD is of particular use to illustrate alternative ideas to Naturalistic Drama for students to use when devising their own work.

The extracts directed by professional director Tim Ford (Birmingham Rep) are an excellent introduction to staging these texts. The DVD includes three extracts from each of the following plays:

Hard To Swallow, Too Much Punch, & Graham World’s Fastest Blind Man! There will also be two extracts from Arson About & Missing Dan Nolan and one extract from: Chicken; Chunnel of Love; Kill Jill; Legal Weapon; No Place For a Girl/Sweet FA.

A range of techniques are demonstrated such as Body Props; Cheat mime & cheating into emotion; Human pyrotechnics (Staging epic scenes on a limited or more often than not nil budget) and Précis Theatre. It has some great examples of skills which will come in handy to anyone teaching Drama at GCSE or A’ Level… such as changing pace, contrasts, mime, narration, chorus work in a play & use of song.

The fantastic presentation of the Legal Weapon accident scene is fantastic and gives a very clear illustration of how to stage such a scene really well on a nil budget!

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