Patrick Pheasant: Looking for Gold: International Students’ Aesthetic Experience in Language Education and Process...

Based on current research conducted at an Australian University English Language Centre, this paper explores parallels between a process drama in 2012 with international students studying in Australia and immigrants in London in 1850...

Children’s Memory of Performance: Discovery, Rediscovery, and Re-creation

“You don’t need quantitative data to show that Theatre changes people”, says Elaine Faull, to the workshop attendees on Monday afternoon of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019. And yet nevertheless, her data...

Mother Africa – A Soundscape

Mother Africa & Her Melodies (dir. Lulu Tsheola) is a one-hander play told by multi-instrumentalist and well-traveled musician and instrument collector Volley Nchabeleng. The indigenous musical show infuses a variety of...

The Hope and Future of Theatre for Young People

Theatre is more important than ever. Dr Ekua Ekumah, the Keynote Speaker for Tuesday’s opening address of the ITYARN (International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network) Conference, began by speaking of the importance of staging Theatre...
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Speaking in a Language that Transcends Borders

OBISIKE: It Takes A Lion’s Heart This performance, the result of an international collaboration between Germany and Nigeria, highlighted the similarities between cultures on the theme of women’s rights and questions of self-determination. Strips of paper...

Dancers of the Cradle

In its second week, the Cradle of Creativity hosted two Focus Days on Dance Theatre for Young People (Wednesday, May 24th and Thursday, May 25th, 2017). The sessions during these days included a workshop on "Empathy as...

IDIERI 9: Day 2 Twitter Roundup

The second day of IDIERI 9 was an excellent one - beginning with 6 concurrent practical workshops, the day continued with papers, panels, a performance, and even a book launch event. https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013904559079657473 https://twitter.com/gaenor22/status/1013879359415844864 https://twitter.com/jendibella/status/1013928328598675457 https://twitter.com/selinabusby/status/1013929267871092737 https://twitter.com/soilsitheoir/status/1013940700369571840 https://twitter.com/cfrenchtweeting/status/1013960733879513088 https://twitter.com/thepollstar/status/1014045414322868224 https://twitter.com/c_and_t/status/1014016216552345601 https://twitter.com/Imagine_A_Day/status/1014080293949489152 https://twitter.com/ride_journal/status/1014038530035724294 https://twitter.com/playfulpedagogy/status/1014078048797220865

Catalina Villanueva and Carmel O’Sullivan: Challenging distances: Navigating the waters of critical pedagogy in...

Drama’s potential for critical pedagogy has been explored in recent years (Freebody & Finneran, 2013; O’Connor, 2013), but seldom in Latin American settings. This case study analyses the experiences of Chilean teachers when learning...

Martha Lamont: ‘Drama makes my brain healthy’: An inquiry into the potential for using...

This paper identifies the social challenges facing young children with special educational needs (SEN) in mainstream classrooms, and explores and recommends drama in education (DiE) to enhance their social skills. This study specifically investigates...