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Attend a Drama Course

Popular one-day drama courses for actors, teachers, directors and drama leaders are held regularly in London. Booking for the following one-day courses is now open:

Primary Drama INSET Day
  • Wednesday 10th February 2010 10.30am - 4.30pm
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

This popular one-day training course on primary drama techniques with David Farmer is aimed at teachers working with the 5-11 age-range. The practical approach will leave you inspired, with a skill-set of dramatic ideas and techniques for teaching primary drama lessons and workshops in schools or drama clubs, including a look at the New Primary Curriculum.

Extending Directing Skills
  • Saturday 6th March 2010
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

This new one day course gives you a further chance to explore many useful skills which will help you bring a fresh approach to directing live theatre performances. The content builds on that explored on the Developing Directing Skills course - although you can attend either course in any order.


Developing Directing Skills
  • Wednesday 28th July 2010
  • Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

This unique one day course gives you an opportunity to explore many of the skills required in directing a play for the stage. With an emphasis on a practical approach, participants work with professional theatre director David Farmer in considering how to tell a story through performance. Topics include: finding ways into a script, blocking a scene, sub-text, character development, ensemble working, physical theatre, mime and movement.

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Game of the Week

101 Drama Games and Activities

A collection of highly effective games and exercises suitable for children, young people and adults. Now one of the best-selling books on educational drama!

101 Drama Games and Activities

'Belongs amongst the top 10 books any director or drama teacher should own'
- English Touring Opera

'One of the handiest things to have around'
- Teaching Drama magazine

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The Space to Move by Christian Darley

The Space to Move by Christian DarleyFirst and foremost, this is a book of stories. Stories of workshops with actors, classes with young children and drama sessions with trainee Army Officers. Christian Darley explains her approach through detailed and captivating accounts of moments in the rehearsal room, including quirky conversations and engaging descriptions of improvisations and rehearsals. Although there are exercises and methods in the book, this is not just a manual of movement, and does not require any technical knowledge.

 

Drama in the National Curriculum

The profile of drama in UK primary schools will soon be raised as a result of the New Primary Curriculum, which will be rolled out from September 2011. The curriculum will be organised around six broad areas of learning including direct subject teaching as well as a cross-curricular approach. Drama will be included as part of "Understanding the Arts", which advocates participation in a range of art forms – including art and design, drama, music and dance.

 

Teachers TV Player

The Drama Resource website now features selected programmes from Teachers' TV. To view programmes for both Primary and Secondary go to the Teachers' TV Player.

 

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