20 Reasons Why I Love Teaching Drama
It is my passion I like the energy it provides I love seeing the smiles on my students’ faces There is never a dull moment in my day I can be a big kid in…
Friday Essay: The Arts And Our Still-Born National Identity
Stephen Sewell, National Institute of Dramatic Art The debate about culture in Australia typically follows a familiar pattern: a commentator laments declining cultural standards and narrowing opportunities and looks for someone to blame. The usual…
Freewriting and Stream of Consciousness for Drama Scripts
Freewriting If your drama course involves any degree of student scripting for self-devised pieces of work, then you are more than likely to have encountered students who struggle to put pen to paper. Often students…
Accelerated Progression in Drama
To accelerate, or not to accelerate: that is the question. Student acceleration, or accelerated progression, can take a number of forms. For the purposes of this post, I am focusing on students undertaking studies in…
Shakespeare Live! A Line of Hamlets
This hilarious snippet from Shakespeare Live!, organised by the Royal Shakespeare Company and screened on the BBC to mark the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare’s death, was meant as a bit of fun. But it’s actually a…
The Drama Teacher Gets 5 Stars!
Twitter informed me last night that the excellent UK drama education magazine, Teaching Drama, gave The Drama Teacher / Theatre Links a 5-star review in their latest edition of the magazine. Why, thank you! Here…