Since I began teaching drama twenty years ago, I have seen the weight given to technical and design aspects of theatre in GCSE and A Level courses increase enormously. Students need to be able to ‘read’ design for live theatre evaluation. They need to be able to develop their own design ideas in relation to set texts, and some need to develop more than a theoretical knowledge to offer a design option for a practical component.
It is a lot to ask of drama teachers that we should be sufficiently versed in the complexities of lighting design and costume construction to be able to support our students in offering design for practical components, and many drama teachers admit to lacking confidence in these aspects of the courses.
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