Sounds from Rocking the Cradle

On Thursday 25th May 2017, I visited the Rocking the Cradle festival, hosted by Magnet Theatre as part of ASSITEJ's Cradle of Creativity. In the following audio clip (2 minutes), you can hear snippets from...
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Performative Reviews – The Affect of a Performance

Check out the video above for some workshop highlights from the session delivered to Youth Delegates at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand. About the Workshop Leader: Anette Therese Pettersen...

Matt Omasta and Elizabeth Murray: Assessment in Elementary Drama Education

This study articulates U.S. elementary (primary) school drama specialists’ / teachers’ perceptions of assessment as a component of education and documents assessment processes and procedures in drama classrooms. Through a series of qualitative interviews...

Karoo Moose: An Audience Reaction

Karoo Moose is a production by Baxter Theatre Centre, of South Africa. It was directed by Lara Foot. Karoo Moose is a powerful production that really left its mark on me. In the following audio...

Whiteout: Audience Responses

Described as a piece which "gives resonance to the complexities of bi-racial relationships", Barrowland Ballet's production of Whiteout (choreographed by Natasha Gilmore), exploded onto the stage with distorted music and movement. The Dancers began the performance clouded in...

The Sights & Sounds of Sandscape

The beautifully playful production, Sandscape, was incubated within the training programmes of Magnet Theatre (South Africa). The production was a truly international initiative, having been supported by the Goethe-Institut and Helios Theater (Germany), and with trainee participants joining the production from Nigeria...

Packing Up My Memories

As part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019, we enjoyed a treat of a show titled, Memory In The Bag which was directed by Kenjiro Otani and presented by Company Ma, a...

Robyn Ewing and John Nicholas Saunders: Bridging the literacy-arts divide in Australian primary education:...

In neo-liberal times the distance between traditional understandings of literacy and the Arts has lengthened dramatically. A partnership between Australia’s largest theatre company and Australia’s oldest university has developed, School Drama, a co-mentoring teacher...

Walking the Line Between Past and Present

Making Mandela and Insta-Grammar were both featured performances during the Cradle of Creativity's Focus Day on Theatre for Social Change, held on Saturday 20th May 2017 at Guga S’thebe Arts and Cultural Centre in Langa Township.  Making Mandela, produced by...
LED lights are set up around the front of the stage. These are the main sources of lighting used throughout the Performance. There are no other lights rigged in the Theatre.

Lights, Camera, Action: Lighting and Colours in Theatre for Young Audiences

The following series of photographs highlight the unique use of stage lighting in two performances of Theatre for Babies. Soro et le grain de maïs magique (trans. Soro and the magic grain), directed by Déborah...