The Drama Teacher Who Got Punk’d
Yesterday had to be one of the funniest days in my teaching career, as I got punk’d by a pair of identical twin-sister-drama-loving students of mine. Picture this: I send an identical twin from my…
VCE Drama and Theatre Studies Enrolments 2005-2011
For teachers in Victoria, Australia, here’s the enrolment numbers of students in the various units of VCE Drama and Theatre Studies over the past seven years. From the tables below, one is able to determine…
Dramatic Metaphor
The use of metaphor in drama is a complex device used by playwrights to draw a comparison between two seemingly dissimilar things. A famous metaphor occurs in Arthur Miller’s play The Crucible, where the play’s…
Write Your Own Drama Game
Recently I set a task for my two Year 8 Drama classes to write their own drama game. As many readers of The Drama Teacher know, our subject is not the easiest to leave a…