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.
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 brainstormTo share and note down ideas in a group at the beginning of the creative process or in order to troubleshoot a problem. or simple mind map response to Blood Brothers might look like this.