Responding to a stimulusUsing a theme as a stimulus

There are many ways of finding ideas for creating drama. You can use scripts, themes and characters from exisiting plays or use other stimuli such as music, poetry and artefacts.

Part ofDramaScripts as a stimulus

Using a theme as a stimulus

Here are some suggested themes from the Blood Brothers extract that you could use as a stimulus for your work:

  • class – rich v poor
  • peer pressure
  • bullying
  • 21st century masculinity
  • opposites attract
  • nature v nurture
  • social inequality/lack of mobility
  • fate

To get you started the beginnings of a or simple mind map response to Blood Brothers might look like this.

Mind-map showing themes and ideas related to Blood Brothers