Taking the Stage; using the stage to help your audience visualize the story, and a recap of the basic skills of storytelling.
Engaging the Audience; how to involve your audience and let it help you shape the tale.
Timing; the role of timing in storytelling, with group exercises to experiment with its impact.
Composition; the function of description, narrative and speech in composing a story, introducing ‘firework’ moments and a pictorial way to show the developing patterns.
Structure; stories have different ‘shapes’ (circular, there-and-back, nested, envelope, linear), group exercises to help identify these and use the shape so you tell the tale your own way.
Characterization; Whole and small group exercises to develop your characters and help your listeners distinguish between them.
Repetition and Sequences; why these are an important part of oral storytelling, and opportunities to practice creating phrases help your audience listen and understand.
Speech; group exercises to develop conversations between characters to add interest to your stories.
Sensations; sound, taste, emotion, sight, smell and touch. Group exercises to get all those descriptive phrases into your storytelling.
Relocation; reset a story in a familiar place, then turn victim into villian. Play games to generate scary words.
The Fundamentals; curating the space for your group to work in, and a visualisation exercise making a story out of a simple song.
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