John O’Toole: In here or out there? Investigating the opportunities and challenges of establishing...

This presentation will describe preliminary progress on, and invite contribution to, an informal research project intending to examine and compare how different national and cultural contexts have shaped or affected drama’s relationship with formal...

Leny Woolsey: The Distance of Hierarchy

Hierarchy Noun A system in which members of an organization or society are ranked according to relative status or authority. Synonyms pecking order, ranking, grading, ladder, social order, class system Hierarchy takes three forms;...

Diversity of Practice at IDIERI 9

One of the great privileges of documenting conferences such as the International Drama in Education Research Institute is being able to partake in diverse practical workshop sessions. On Day 2 of the 7-day event,...
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...
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Persona: A ‘Slice of Life’ in Mesmerising Tableaus

Check out the video above for some photographs from the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand, as well as some reactions from Youth Delegates in the audience. Below, you can check out some more...

Chris Blois-Brooke: Documenting ‘Otherness’: The Tyrannical Construction of Knowledge about Theatre for Development?

With Applied Theatre practitioners continuing to work in disparate corners of the world, the documentation of practice is important to allow ideas to travel and be exchanged across borders. Whilst the documents may be...
John Namai, a Storyteller from Kenya, facilitates a workshop at Cradle of Creativity on the Art of Sigana Storytelling

Reviving the Art of Storytelling

Storytelling can be traced back through the ages. Prior to written text and literature, communication of stories, traditions, customs and values was often through the oral traditions of voice and song. Yet, despite the...