TEN LITTLE INDIANS PLAY OUTLINE

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TEN LITTLE INDIANS 

RECOMMENDED AGE GROUP 

11-12 years. 

The group is formed by 16 students. Not all of them are going to performance characters in the play because we need a prompter, and two sound technician’s assistants. 

CHARACTERS and DESCRIPCTION 

There are 10 principal or protagonist actors and three sideshow actors. 

The protagonist actors and actresses are composed by:  7 students from Devon’s University and other four characters that are part of the staff of the University: the dinner lady, the principal and the caretaker. There are some extras: the taxi driver and two policemen. 

 The students:  

Anthony Marston is a young, handsome, rich playboy. Nobody knows what he is studying. 

 James or General Macarthur as the other students called him because of his father military career. 

Miss Emily Brent is a religious fundamentalist who believes she is morally superior to everyone else on the university. She studies Theology. 

Mr. Armstrong is a student of Medicine. The others call him Doc. 

Detective Blore, as others call him, is a student of laws.  

Philip Lombard (it is not his real name) is a friend of another student who declines to come to the party. 

Vera Claythorne (it is not her real name) is a student of Nursery that comes to the party by a mate invitation who declines to come. 

Mrs. Rogers is the dinner-lady and the wife of the caretaker, Mr. Rogers. They will be the house servants during the party. 

Mr. Rogers will be the butler and caretaker at the party in the Indian Fraternity house. 

Mr. Justice Wargrave is the principal and the inquisitor in the party. Audience will believe that he is the first victim on the party, but the final scene reveals that Wargrave is the Indian House judge and had faked his own punishment. 

Fred Narracott is the taxi driver that carries all the Indian party guests. 

Mr. Thomas Legge is a policeman of Scotland Yard who attempts to solve the mystery of the vanishing of some students at the Fraternity House the day after. 

Inspector Maine is a policeman of Scotland Yard in charge of the Indian House investigations. 

SYNOPSIS (simple story outline) 

The plot will take place after the Final football match between Devon’s University football team The Indians and a guest team called The Vikings.  

The Principal invites seven students to an after-match party at the Indians Fraternity House which is inside the campus at the top of Black Hill. 

These seven students will be accused of cheating in the public access exam to the University by a recording at the beginning of the night. 

The caretaker and the dinner-lady will be accused as well because they helped them. 

As in the nursery rhyme “Ten little Indians” (that I have modified myself in order to avert murders) they will be injured or will disappear during the night and the day after. 

A terrible storm won’t allow them get out of the Hill. 

Only two students won’t be hurt because they aren’t the real guests, they come in name of other two: Vera and Lombard.

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Step by step, we're considering Drama as a useful tool to use in English Language Class.

Children enjoy stories and roleplaying. It's a fact that children could improve their skills using Drama. 

Here we have some resources to use in your drama class.

Drama Texts and Play Texts

Cooperative Learning Activities

You have to pay attention on some aspects before working with children at the age of 5-12
- try to focus on listening and repeating.
- be such as motivating and atractive as you can.
- use TPR (Total PPhysical Response), songs, chants...
Tug Of War.

It´s an activity for warming up. Pairs stand fancing each other. Look each other over, eyeing up in a competitive way tell them to mime holding a heavy rope in both hands and move back to a distance of about two metres from their opponent. Instructions are simple, imagine the weight and pull them.
First make the example on your on and them repeat with children.
You can adapt the activity for older children.

Try an Easter Cross (download it from Activity village)

Primary Education Activities

All Change.
Simple game where everyone is seated in a circle and the leader stands in the middle. When the leader says: "all those wearing blue trousers change!" everyone wearing blue trousers must change seats; the leader will also try to find a seat so that one pearson will be left in the middle. Start game focus on clothing, them combine with colours, etc.You can use alternatives: family, all those with two sisters...,animals, places, food...etc.You can adapt the game to infant education or to secondary education

Secondary Education Activities

Colour your nursery Rhyme.

The group leader writes a short nursery rhyme (e.g. " London Bridge is falling down", "Hokey-Pokey", "Little Jack Horner", "Little Miss Muffet") on the board. The leader then reads the rhyme in a variety of ways, and the group repeats and imitates each time, in chorus. Sample ways of reading include: suspensefully, angrily, sadly, suspiciously, in a depressed manner, happily, like a TV newscaster, as a rock song, in a operatic voice, very softly, very loudly, rap,...etc.You can adapt the game for Primary children too.