GENERAL DRAMA THEMES
Fantasy Creatures
Themes For Dramatic Improvisation
You are sitting in the park, by the pond, sunbathing. A garden gnome sits nearby dangling a fishing rod into the water. To your surprise the gnome catches a fish on its hook and reels the line in. When he suddenly notices you, the gnome pretends not to move. You go up to him to have a closer look. You tell him a joke. He can't keep his face straight any longer and he starts laughing. He asks you to promise not to tell anyone that he is a real gnome and in return he will grant you a wish.
There is a knock on your door one day. It is a leprechaun who is crying because he is lost and can't find his way back home. You and your friends decide to help him to find his way back home. In return he is able to use his magic to help you out of tricky situations.
You collect old bottles and decide to buy an antique one from a Jumble Sale. You open it to wash it and to your surprise a genie pops out and offers to grant you any wish. The trouble is it is an absent-minded genie and it keeps making mistakes with its spells.
Things That Go Bump
You are on your way home from school with your friends and get lost in the fog. You wander into a house and decide to shelter until the fog has gone. Unbeknown to you, the house is really the haunted house attraction in a fairground.
You find an old box in the attic of your house. When you open it a ghost pops out. It is the ghost of a lady in curlers who won't stop talking and is forever poking her nose into other people's business. You begin to lose your patience with her when she follows you to school. The trouble is, you can see and hear the ghost and no-one else can. When you lose your temper with the ghost your friends think you are speaking to them.
Another Fine Mess
A lorry carrying liquid toffee has leaked its load onto the footpath outside a school .Everyone who passes by becomes stuck in the toffee. A circus parade comes along and the clowns, acrobats, animals and their trainers become stuck in the toffee.
Laurel and Hardy are at the bus stop eating bubble gum. Before long everyone in the queue has been stuck together with gum. A police officer comes along, tries to free them and becomes entangled too. They head for the fire-station. Passers-by who try to help them on the way become stuck together too. (Choose contrasting types e.g. a punk rocker, a vicar, a car salesman. and a brownie.)
A posh lady and gentleman sit on a park bench that has just been painted. Everyone who tries to free them becomes stuck too.
© Andrew McCann