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A series of creative activities and challenges created during the first National Lockdown.

 

Trestle School of Drama

Trestle School of Drama have released a series of #TrestleChallenge’s on our social media channels.

Challenge 1

Create a new character using a prop that you have at home. Pan as a hat? Bedsheet as a ball gown? Introduce that character to us, name, age, job and maybe a fun fact about them too! Good luck! #StayCreative

Challenge 2

Write and perform a monologue starting with the sentence “I don’t even like hotdogs?!” Goodluck! #StayCreative

Challenge 3

Create a movement piece to your favourite song, can it tell a story?

Challenge 4

Tell a story using only 5 pictures, it can be a story you’ve made yourself or a retelling of a story you know. #ChallengeAccepted #StayCreative

Challenge 5

Can you create a shadow showcase? #ShadowPlay #StayCreative

Challenge 6

Think you’re good at impressions? We want to see your best impression of your favourite celebrity. #CelebrityImpressions #StayCreative

Challenge 7

If you’ve had a dream of being a film star, now is your chance! We want to see a scene from your favourite movie brought to life. #StayCreative

Challenge 8

It’s script time, pick a script and perform a scene! #Shakespeare #StayCreative

Trestle Mask Colouring Sheets

You can download Trestle Masks Colouring sheets from the gallery below, be sure to share your creations with us online, on our social media channels!

Make a 3d Trestle Mask at home

Challenge 9

Make a Trestle paper mask and take a picture of you wearing it doing something funny or interesting. #staycreative #masks

Challenge 10

Recreate your favourite artwork or photograph, perhaps a family one from when you were younger? #staycreative #art

Challenge 11

Write and perform a haiku about something that makes you happy, a haiku is a 3 line poem where the first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 and the third has 5 again. #staycreative #poetry

Challenge 12

Find and learn a new dance move, share the love and teach it to someone else. #staycreative dance

Challenge 13

Make your own mask out of things you can find at home, what character does this mask create?#staycreative #masks

Challenge 14

Take a picture or video of something that sums up your time in lockdown #staycreative #lockdown

Challenge 15

Rewrite your favourite song to be about something you’re looking forward to doing when lockdown ends #staycreative #music

Challenge 16

Make up your own story entitled ‘when the world stopped’. You can write it down on paper or just tell it to someone else. #staycreative #storytelling

Trestle Teaching Resources

To help keep creative juices flowing #Trestle have released a series of #MaskExercise that you can complete at home!

#Teachers #Creatives #TrestleChallenge #StayCreative #StaySafe #StAlbans #Coronavirusuk #UKTheatre

ONLINE DRAMA RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS. Exercise 1.

States of Tension:

👉Task 1: Watch the video
👉Task 2: Play the video again and this time play along doing the states of tension yourself at home.
👉Task 3: Write down what changes physically in your body as you move through the different stages. Write down 3 things that are affected, e.g speed/posture.
👉Task 4: Think of a character from a play you have read or are reading. Can you identify 2 moments where their tension state would change?

ONLINE DRAMA RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS. Exercise 2

Focus Line Up

👉Task 1: Read the exercise description and watch the video.
👉Task 2: Can you identify 3 moments where different masked characters pass the focus and how they do it?
👉Task 3: Write down the differences you notice from watching the exercise out of mask and watching the exercise in mask.

ONLINE DRAMA RESOURCE FOR TEACHERS. Exercise 3

Group Improvisations:

👉Task 1: Read the exercise description and watch the video
👉Task 2: Write down an emotion connecting to each mask, can you identify an action that links to the mask to help us understand the emotion it shows?
👉Task 3: Can you write an inner monologue for one of the masked characters - what do you think they are thinking in their head from the actions they’re doing?