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Creative Drama and Enrichment in New York State By Ellen Flaks As a Theater Major at Syracuse University in the ‘80’s, I had an opportunity to teach young children in a Saturday morning creative drama class at the local community center. I...Read More... -
Berkoff, Godber and Physical Theatre Techniques By Mandy McKenna Both Berkoff and Godber are hugely popular with young people for good reason. They are both very enjoyable to perform as they make bold physical statements which are hugely theatrical...Read More... -
The Dragon Speaks By Anna Kemp For the last few years, I have been running theatre workshops for kids in the Alpujarra mountains in the south of Spain. I moved to a village there with my husband and our three young kids...Read More... -
Writing Plays for Children By Alison Chaplin Nearly 30 years ago I co-founded a youth theatre and it very quickly became a popular place for young people to cut their theatrical teeth. In the early days – during that stage...Read More... -
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The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman. Dorothy Heathcote (MBE) began her working life as a weaver in a Lancashire woollen mill at the age of... -
Seven Levels of Tension Jacques Lecoq developed an approach to acting using seven levels of tension. These changed and developed during his practice and have been further developed by other practitioners. The following suggestions...Read More... -
Whoosh! This engaging and interactive storytelling technique enables any kind of story - simple or complex - to be brought alive, even without prior knowledge of the characters or plot. As well...Read More... -
Devising Theatre By David FarmerRead More...
(First published in Teaching Drama Magazine) Getting Started Devising a piece of theatre can be a stimulating and exciting journey towards the development of a performance which... -
Drama for Language Learning Drama is an effective way of helping students to learn languages including English as a Second Language (ESL), as it uses active teaching and learning styles likely to motivate and sustain the attention...Read More... -
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 4 Educational programme Forkbeard Fantasy run regular workshops and residencies as an integral part of their artistic programme. Courses range from one-day workshops to their popular six-day Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 3 Practical exercises exploring the Forkbeard approach Through the Looking Glass To explain Forkbeard's extraordinary melding of film and live performance, it is useful to show students extracts of their...Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 2 Key productions Forkbeard Fantasy have produced dozens of shows ranging from On An Uncertain Insect to The Barbers of Surreal,...Read More...
Forkbeard Fantasy - Multimedia Theatre of the Absurd - 1 Key theory, ideas and practices Forkbeard Fantasy are pioneers of cross-artform multimedia theatre. Their subversive performances are a seemingly anarchic...Read More...
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