Following a major redevelopment, Polka Theatre will be reopening its doors in August with a new programme of events and a revitalised all-purpose venue catering for 0-12 year olds.
The Firework-Maker’s Daughter, Philip Pullman’s touching tale of adventure, imagination, believing in and standing up for yourself, is hugely popular with KS2 students and is on the primary reading...
Lysistrata by Aristophanes, is one of nine text choices, from Edexcel’s A level Drama and Theatre, Component 3, Section C: Interpreting a Performance Text in light of one practitioner for a...
This scheme of six two-hour sessions explores a range of approaches to love, especially the tough variety. Timings are suggested as guidelines only, and, as is often the case in schemes of work,...
This scheme of work is based on two very well-known novels: primarily The Machine Gunners by Robert Westall, taken alongside Animal Farm by George Orwell. Although they are very different books,...
To mark Mental Health Awareness Week 2021 we have collated a live list of useful mental health...
Celebrating accessible methods of playwriting, Paul Bateson speaks to Plymouth's new Laureate of...
Richard Hayhow, who has been creating performance work with young people with learning disabilities...
As her Performing Arts School approaches its 20th anniversary next year, Anna Fiorentini explores...
Essential advice and guidance for drama teachers
In a production that combines the modernity of technology with the antiquity of Shakespeare, Hattie...
A collaborative text from 15 playwrights inspired by Ovid's letters, perfect for A level students to...
Sarah Lambie reviews Teach Berkoff: a comprehensive and fun-to-teach scheme of work, well...
Lucy Bellingham, the founder and director of We Teach Drama Ltd, discusses the role of social media...
Each issue of D&T we bring you a teachers’ guide to a play written for study with your students,...
Each issue of D&T we bring you a page-to-stage focus on a play for performance with your students....
Each issue of D&T, we bring you five suggested plays for studying or mounting with your students....
Rebecca Bell walks us through ‘Defining the Space’ – the construction of an imaginary location to...
