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...

Gaenor Stoate: The tyranny of affective distance in the devised drama ensemble

This paper explores the concept of the devised drama ensemble, specifically students in their final year of secondary school curriculum drama in New Zealand’s National Certificate of Educational Achievement (NCEA) programme. Ensembles are established...
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Meeting with Jean-François Guilbault & Sabrina Baran – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering...

Jean-François Guilbault is a graduate of the Cégep Theatre in Saint-Hyacinthe (2008) and is the co-founder of Samsara Theatre. He has directed multiple shows and has collaborated on many Creative and Cultural...
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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...
Scene from Maimane!, performed by the Ensemble of Drama For Life Theatre Company and directed by Warren Nebe

The Director’s Inspiration: An Interview

Maimane!, performed by the Drama For Life Theatre Company (dir. Warren Nebe), is an insightful play about the goings-on in a township called Mkhukhuville. Through the cast's multi-roling, the play alternates between stories of Children...

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...

The Opening Ceremony at the Cradle of Creativity

Wednesday, 17th May, 2017 marked the official start of the 19th ASSITEJ World Congress and International Theatre Festival for Children and Young People, held in Cape Town, South Africa. Delegates from all over the world...

Sarah Woodland: Heterotopias in Performance: Participatory theatre in a women’s prison

Our Ancestors, Our History, Our Lost Culture was a devised performance given by women inside Brisbane Women’s Correctional Centre in 2017. The performance dealt with the forced removal and institutionalization of Indigenous Australian children...

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...

Exploring Techniques and Practices from the IDIERI 9 Workshops (Part 4)

Delegates at the 9th International Drama in Education Research Institute were treated to an abundance of exciting and engaging practical workshops during the 7-day event. To give you a flavour of what was on offer, the Dialogue team...