Three Monks
Having been selected as the host for ASSITEJ's 2018 Artistic Gathering, all eyes were on the China National Children's Theatre for their Production of Three Monks being performed at the Baxter Theatre at the end of...
Interviewing Endre Sannes Hadland – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Endre Sannes Hadland is Kilden Theatre’s resident Dramaturg. He has a Master's Degree in Dramaturgy from the University of Aarhus. Endre has worked with Theatre groups and projects in Oslo, Stavanger, and...
Eva Göksel: (Self)Reflection, Agency and New Perspectives: Learning to Teach with Drama in Education
This video-ethnographic study explores pre-service teacher agency and creativity in the Swiss context. A small group of student teachers voluntarily attends after-hours training on possible uses of improvisation and basic drama conventions in the...
Ha Young Hwang: Artist-Adolescent Collaboration as a Reciprocal Process – through Artists’ Perspectives
A Paper by Ha Young Hwang, Korea National University of Arts (South Korea)Presented at the Conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN), part of the ASSITEJ Artistic...
Alison O’Grady: Human Rights and Critical Consciousness For Personal Practice
Hath not a Jew hands, organs, dimensions, senses, affections, passions?... If you prick us, do we not bleed? The Merchant of Venice – Shakespeare Act 3, scene 1
How do we learn to be human...
Puppets on a Mission
This is Dialogue's first article in our series about Objects with Objectives at the ASSITEJ Cradle of Creativity 2017 - to see our second post, an audio interview with David Grant, please click here.
Objects with...
Interview with Cedric Wembe
I attended Acting Out - The Challenges of Childhood Collaboration in Creation of Drama for Life today at the Cradle of Creativity. The panel was facilitated by Cedric Wembe, a member of Drama for Life, which is...
Moe Gregorzewski: Interventions of Otherness? Developing a Critical Transcultural Pedagogy through Applied Theatre
I will explore how postcolonial perspectives on culture and migration can inform the development of a process drama-based Applied Theatre practice that encourages social responsibility and critical citizenship amongst young people. Developing such pedagogical...
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 taken when I was 18 years old. It’s as close...
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...