LAMDA appoints Professor Mark O’Thomas as principal and chief executive
O’Thomas will start as principal and chief executive of LAMDA on 1 October, and Dr Philippa Strandberg-Long will become the new head of actor training later in the year.
SCHEMES OF WORK
Welcome to Drama & Theatre online schemes of work. Twice each term, Drama & Theatre publishes five online schemes of work written by experienced teachers and examiners, which are available exclusively to our Full Membership, Digital Membership and Schemes of Work subscribers. They cover Key Stages 2-5 across a variety of exam boards and specifications, providing indispensable content for your classroom teaching.
Creating the envelope: Theatre design elements in the classroom
Theatre design is a tricky art form. It has a very short life, at best for the length of the run. But mostly it only gets attention until the actors come to do their work; if it doesn’t fade into the...
Game Theory in devising
While there are many changing/evolving definitions of Game Theory, it is essentially a complicated mathematical idea which explains how a strategic game is played. It studies how people’s choices...
Building fantasy worlds
Building fantasy worlds lends itself to drama lessons on many levels - building imagination, giving life to inanimate objects, creating exaggerated characters with bizarre personalities, etc. As well...
Greek Myths
This scheme of work is based on three of the more well-known Greek myths: Pandora’s Box; Perseus and Medusa; Jason and the Golden Fleece This scheme is most suitable for Year 7 and Year 8, although...
Features
Changing the narrative: Josette Bushell-Mingo
Recently appointed as principal of the Royal Central School of Speech & Drama, actor and director...
Putting youth on the main stage: Watermill Theatre's Youth Ensemble
The Watermill Theatre in Newbury is taking a radical approach with its Youth Ensemble which could...
Going Solo: Boundless Drama Club
Rob Drummer, artistic director at Boundless Theatre, outlines their new club and the range of...
Diversification in action: Lit in Colour
John Johnson explores a new project, Lit in Colour, that looks to increase students’ access to texts...
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Book Reviews: 100 Plays to Save the World
Hugh Blackwood reviews 100 Plays to Save the World by Elizabeth Freestone and Jeanie O'Hare,...
Outlier by Malaika Kegode
Vickie Smith takes a look at Outlier by Malaika Kegode, publihsed by Salamander Street.
Book Reviews: AQA A Level Drama Play Guides: Antigone, Hedda Gabler
Susan Elkin reviews the AQA A Level Drama Play Guides for Antigone and Hedda Gabler.
Opinion
Opinion with Lucy Danser
Lucy Danser unpicks the issue of addressing sexual consent through theatre.
Lesson plans & teaching materials
Practitioner focus: Peter Brook
Peter Brook, who died aged 97 on 2 July 2022, was one of the most influential international theatre...
Woyzeck by Georg Büchner
Each issue of D&T we bring you a teacher or academic's guide to a play for study with your students....
Drama Game: Hot spotting
David Farmer establishes a drama game adapting 'hotspotting' to include still images and thought...
One-off workshop: Exploring Havisham through Drama
Carol Ann Duffy's poem Havisham is a dramatic monologue, spoken by the jilted bride from Charles...
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