The storytelling
workshop at Allerton Methodist Church on Saturday 16 April was brilliant.
Sue Allonby is a gifted
storyteller who told stories, had us tell stories, and gave us the confidence
to try our own storytelling. We discussed the key skills of words,
memory, visualisation, concentration, and geography and gesture - and then
practised them!
We played the Yorkshire
Cat game to encourage us to think of words quickly; were told a story and then
had to tell it to someone else; discussed visualisation which would help fix a
story firmly in our heads; played games of concentration to feel how it is to
keep a subject in our minds; discussed the geography of a story and the
gestures that we would use. And then used all of these in the reading of
a poem.
Subjects covered
included repeating words and actions, facial expression, speed of delivery, pauses,
eye contact, getting the audience on your side; so much covered in so short a
time.
This workshop would help
anyone who speaks to five pre-school children, 500 adults or anything in
between. I look forward to further workshops organised by the circuit.
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