Schools across the UK celebrate World Performance Week with DTEA
Hattie Fisk
Tuesday, March 21, 2023
The Drama & Theatre Education Alliance wants the government to understand and support the learning potential of drama and theatre education, and has asked schools across the country to invite their local MPs to events as part of Seize The Day 2023.
Annabel Inskip as Billy in Nina Lemon’s touring production of Masking by Peer Productions.
Youth groups and schools across the country are celebrating the Drama & Theatre Education Alliance’s Seize The Day initiative as part of its World Performance Week, between 20 and 27 March.
The celebration builds on last year’s events where the DTEA co-ordinated events led by schools, theatre companies and associations including National Drama and Frantic Assembly.
The DTEA has encourages schools, colleges, universities, theatres, arts centres, youth groups, drama practitioners and theatre companies to invite their MP, local councillors and press to experience their events, which can include drama classes, workshops and performances with young people.
Follow #SeizeTheDay and #DTEA to see a live selection of these events.
As part of the proceedings, Peer Productions performed its play 'Masking' at All Hallows Catholic School and Sunbury Manor (pictured).
Formed in 2020, the DTEA is an alliance of 14 national associations that work in drama and theatre for, with and by children and young people. The three objectives of the alliance are listed as:
- The inclusion in the curriculum of Drama as a Foundation Subject in the National Curriculum with the same status as Art and Music;
- The entitlement of every child to at least one annual engagement with professional theatre.
- A drama curriculum and theatre repertoire that is more representative of the UK's diverse population.
Read this feature in D&T to find out more about the DTEA and its mission.
