Explorative strategies

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Explorative strategies are used in drama to enhance a scene. They are usually studied whilst completing a drama GCSE or A level.

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These strategies consist of:

~Thought Tracking - Whilst in role, the character speaks out to the audience about what that character is thinking, feeling, doing etc.

~Still Image - Also known as a "freeze frame" or "tableau" or "snapshot", this is when all the characters on stage stop still. Can be used if a narrator wishes to speak to the audience whilst something is happening on stage.

~Hot Seating - A character is interrogated by the audience. Normally used as an "in class" activity, this allows the audience to find things out about a character, and requires the actor playing the character to think about what he/she is doing, feeling, etc.

~Cross Cutting - On stage there are two different characters, normally in two different locations. Cross Cutting means that one character speaks whilst the other is in a Freeze Frame (Or Still Image). When the first character has finished their dialogue they then freeze and let the other character to speak.

~Narrating - A character called, normally called the "Narrator", will speak out to the audience about what is going on in the plot. They have been around for nearly as long as theatre has.