Children’s Theatre Critic

Notice the tag? Just slightly off topic with this post! Go Hawks for tomorrow’s Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. International readers of The Drama Teacher may be wondering what the heck is Australian Rules Football, anyway? Well, check out the highlights reel below for a taste of what happened last time…

Hey folks, I just wanted to apologise for not making many posts in the past couple of weeks. But, as you can see below, I had a good excuse! I was busy planning my wedding. So it’s back to normal on The Drama Teacher from here on and more regular posts on the way…. Justin.

For regular readers of The Drama Teacher, things may have seemed a little quiet recently. Alas, there is good reason! Bubba Cash No.2 arrived last Monday. Little Hugo entered the world a couple of weeks early and this has meant most of my time has been spent settling Hugo’s 22-month older brother Oscar, who hasn’t…

Like many male Drama teachers, I have been telling ‘dad’ jokes in class for years now. For those of you who don’t know what a ‘dad’ joke is, it’s one of those jokes, often a pun or play on words, that we hope our students will find amusing. Some students believe ‘dad’ jokes are deplorable….

Two of my greatest loves in the one package – Hawthorn and theatre! This Saturday, the Hawthorn Hawks and the Fremantle Dockers will play Australia’s most watched sporting match, the Australian Football League Grand Final at the Melbourne Cricket Ground. The biggest theatre star in town, King Kong, has placed his support behind Hawthorn by…