Resource Review: We Teach Drama Resources

We Teach Drama is a new online resource and CPD hub for those teaching drama in secondary and sixth form contexts.

Its resource library is accessed freely – you just join the mailing list, and a password is sent. It is divided into sections such as Character Work, Design and Developing Writing. Being relatively young as a website, the resources under each heading vary in number, but the bank will be ever developing, and many can be given out directly to students too.

One section – Practitioners and Genres – is particularly well-stocked already. It includes, for example, a series of resources on Katie Mitchell that build a very exciting Live Cinema Scheme to be enjoyed by a suggested age range of 14 to 19-year-old drama students. To create the resources, We Teach Drama have used information gleaned from a Royal Court Theatre online session with Mitchell to outline how to create her unique Live Cinema style and how it can be explored with students, using her methodology to create a 10 stepped scheme.