The personal is political is performance.
Costume for protest. Twitter source. Celebrating international women’s day with this woman. I recently hung up my theatre teacher’s hat for a leadership role in Kyiv, Ukraine. I was relocated to my...
View ArticleA great episode from this podcast
Lots of super interesting stuff in this episode on how CoVid 19 has exercised us creatively and digitally. Since March this year – 2020 – venues have been black. Performers and live audiences are...
View ArticleTheatre online and free stuff – Covid-19
Be a learner Great short Butoh documentary: Pina Bausch documentary Drama Online by Bloomsbury – usual prices for international schools: Free access to some of their collection until the end of April...
View ArticleKnow anyone in NYC?
Looking for an audience for this – April 23-27 2019 I am reaching out to you because I am taking 12 girls to perform in New York for a week staring April 22nd, but we encountered a last minute...
View ArticleI thought this was just an Artaudian dream
Until now! One of my students just reviewed this show in her mock Director’s Notebook… A Dream Like A Dream is an 8-hour Chinese contemporary theatre play written and directed by acclaimed director...
View ArticleNeed lessons, resources or workshops in a hurry?
The Times Educational Suppliment is a great place to find resources quickly and easily It’s also a good place to look if you’re a student wanting to run a workshop...
View ArticleActioning
From: http://www.outofjoint.co.uk/education/actioning.html Actioning is the process of allocating an action or intention to each line or idea in a script. The action is described with a transitive verb...
View ArticleWatch Périclès – Steamed live April 19th
Périclès, Prince de Tyr to be screened on 19 April 17th Jan 2018 3:08pm Following the successful screenings of The Winter’s Tale, Measure for Measure and Ubu Roi, Cheek by Jowl will screen Périclès,...
View ArticleTheatre and ToK?
It struck me that this cheeky chap was using theatrical aspects to convince his audience to believe in his imagined world. A clever use of set, sfx, props, trained animals & actors to manipulate...
View ArticleSEEKING FEEDBACK – Suzuki Training
Dear all, If you’ve also done some Suzuki training, my students would love to hear from you. Please comment below if you can give any advice or correctional feedback. Thank you.
View ArticleThe mind-blowing world of designer Bunny Christie – in pictures
From mapping the journey of The Curious Incident’s teen hero to putting Shakespeare in prison and erecting a towering newsroom for Ink, Bunny Christie talks through five of her creations Link to full...
View ArticlePlaying dead – Farce
My kind of role… In Orton’s dark farce, staged uncut for the first time, Anah Ruddin plays the recently deceased Mrs McLeavy whose body is extravagantly manhandled. She describes the stiff challenges...
View ArticleA great resource for the STP
I forgot all about this, and I might have posted about it before, but it’s worth doing again I think. It’s a great way to introduce the STP....
View ArticleA brilliant line up this year!
http://www.physicalfest.com/workshops/ At the Bluecoat in Liverpool, UK
View ArticlePeter Brook – only found this film yesterday!
“You know there’s always this terrible moment at the beginning of everything, when people come together and all of them are saying what the hell’s it about? What are we doing here? What are we here?...
View ArticleComplicite
‘…the most influential and consistently interesting theatre company working in Britain.’ The Times http://www.complicite.org/ Watch their live stream here: http://www.complicite.org/live-stream.php...
View ArticleExciting – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
The Eighth Story. Nineteen years later. http://www.harrypottertheplay.com/ Based on an original new story by J.K. Rowling, Jack Thorne and John Tiffany, Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, a new play by...
View ArticleGood Chance may be the only chance they have
…between the British-funded razor-wire fences on one side and the French riot police on the other, these two governments have turned the Jungle into a vacuum of their own moral authority. The only...
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