Warren Linds: Weechi metuwe mitotan Playing Games of Presence with Indigenous Youth in Saskatchewan,...
This paper will explore the integration of theatrical play with a land based focus and how it contributes to supporting holistic wellbeing in Indigenous...
Elizabeth Anderson and Marsha Finlay: But that’s not right, is it Miss? Colonisation and...
This paper tells of collaborative research in which two primary school teachers designed drama work to help their students navigate challenging journeys. From safe...
Dirk J Rodricks: Diasporic Intimacy in/through/with an Applied Theatre Methodology: Tensions and Possibilities for...
The notion of intimacy is connected to home and a diasporic intimacy, according to Boym (1998), is one that is not opposed to uprootedness...
Heads Held High – A Podcast
On Tuesday 3rd July 2018, delegates of the International Drama in Education Research Institute were treated to a performance of Heads Held High, a production by Black Friars...
Wasim Kurdi: Yearnings of Immigration and Its Agony
Identity formulation through experiencing: “distances by traveling” and “distances by departing”
In 1851, the first Palestinian man arrived in Brazil as an asylum seeker following a harsh...
Wan-Jung Wang: Combating Climate Change and Bridging the Distance Through Community-based Musical Praxes in...
Distances are created by geographical locations, ideological cultural construction and social classes, race, nationalities and gender. Facing the drastic climate change and continuous natural...
Over the Top
“Over The Top, is an ANZAC play that presents a theatrical insight into the lives of nine young people who enlisted in WW1 in...
Jan Cohen-Cruz – Notes from an Autumn Gardener: Reflections on Theater and Distance
Two photographs bookend my talk. The first, an 8×10 inch “head shot,” which actors staple to their resume and leave with casting agents, was...
Rannveig Thorkelsdóttir: How is drama as a subject implemented in Icelandic compulsory education?
In Iceland, drama is a subject in the national curriculum. Within a socio-cultural framework of understanding, an ethnographic study of the culture and the...
Wendy Mages: Theatre-in-Education, Language, and Perspective Taking in Early Childhood Education
At the nexus of three disciplines— educational theatre and drama, language development, and cognitive development—this mixed-methods study investigates the effect of a preschool theatre-in-education...