Just Here: A Sweet Performance

Just Here is a performance created for children under the age of three. Gabriel Marchand, the Director from Pillow Fort Productions, created a colourful piece that was full of soothing, calm and familiar sounds for the young audience...

Playwriting Slams by Write Local, Play Global

The Write Local, Play Global Network hosted several Playwright Slams during the course of the Cradle of Creativity. Hosted by Jenny Ann Koppera, of Spinning Dot Theatre, and Rives Collins, of Northwestern University, these...

Nicola Pauling: When Distance Lives next door; using applied theatre to strengthen complex social...

Wellington City’s 5000 social housing tenants live in medium and high-density housing communities. Cultural diversity amongst this population is high, including significant numbers of migrants and former refugees, while English as a first language,...

Linda Hassall: Politics of Distance: Psychological Landscapes. Contemporary Identity in Australian Gothic Drama

The politics of distance has informed the psychological landscape of Australian cultural identity since settlement and colonisation. Australian Gothic drama explores the psychology of distance through socio cultural themes associated with identity, race and...

Roundtable on Drama Education, Climate, and the Environment

A roundtable on an environmental theme at IDIERI 2018, convened by Molly Mullen. https://youtu.be/GJqq1lb2j_w Molly Mullen is a Senior Lecturer in applied theatre at the University of Auckland’s Faculty of Education and Social Work, Aotearoa New...
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Roundtable on Latin and LatinX and the Post Dramatic in TYA

Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand, Norway With participation from: Lorenzo Garcia,...
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Persona: The Post-Show Talk

We sat down for a chat with the actors from the play, Persona: Rauno Kaibiainen, Merilin Kirbits, Kristian Põldma, and Tanel Ting. Performance Synopsis:I live in an apartment. There...
Gugu S’Thebe Cultural Centre, in the township of Langa, venue for a Focus Day on Theatre for Social Change.

Theatre for Social Change at the Cultural Hub in Gugu S’Thebe, Langa

The first Focus Day to be held in Gugu S’Thebe Cultural Centre, in the township of Langa, was on the theme of Theatre for Social Change. What follows is a summary of the day,...

What Would You Like to Transform?

The second Focus Day at the cultural hub of Gugu S’Thembe was on the topic of Theatre for Healing. Facilitators, Educators and Artists alike gathered for a roundtable discussion at Langa Township’s Old Post...

Performing for Babies

During the Focus Day on Theatre for the Early Years, Paweł Gałkowski presented a paper, that was co-authored with Alicja Morawska-Rubczak, entitled “Baby and contemporary dance. Feedback of creativity between adults and children”. Paweł Gałkowski...