Storydrama

The way I see drama in early childhood is acting out a story. This is called story enactment or dramatisation, which implies a literal re-enactment of narrative and its character.

My tutor Johanna has brought me on a wonderful introductory journey to storydrama with "Sarah'
s Heavy Heart" by Peter Carnavas. Storydrama uses the issues, themes, characters, mood, conflict or spirit of a known story as a frame for improvisatory exploration. In this form of drama, the focus is on an uncertainty, a fascinating idea, or an event or details that is not fully explored within the original story.

After this tutorial, Johanna asked us to look for books that can be further explored with storydrama. I found a book called "My Two Blankets".

In another tutorial by Adrianna, she taught us two ways to approach storydrama (example from "Lost and Found":

1. Think of a key question from the book. e.g. friendship? lost and found process?

2. Choose your favourite page and brainstorm how to extend from there. e.g. the page of rowing the boat, so we might can bring in cardboard made boats as a storytelling space; the page of saying goodbye, and extend by talking about feelings seeing mum or dad dropping them off at school...