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:

• Wed 28 July 2010 Developing Directing Skills
• Wed 29 September 2010 Primary Drama INSET Day
• Sat 6 Nov 2010 Learning Through Drama for Children with Special Educational Needs

• 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.

• Wednesday 29th September 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.

• Saturday 6th November 2010
• Toynbee Studios, 28 Commercial Street, London E1

Led by Dr Melanie Peter, Senior Lecturer in Education, Anglia Ruskin University, this practical course explores the importance of drama for enabling all children, including those with Special Educational Needs (SEN), to learn through imagined experience. Using role-play is key to children developing awareness and understanding of others’ perspectives and how to influence the course of events.