Reactions to Research on Trauma & Theatre for Young Audiences
Keep scrolling down for more about the papers at this session, which was presented at the conference of the International Theatre for Young Audiences Research Network (ITYARN) that took place in Kristiansand...
The Next Generation
The Next Generation programme brings together Young Theatre Makers, Practitioners and Pioneers. Yvette Hardie, the sitting President of ASSITEJ and Director of ASSITEJ South Africa, welcomed the 2017 Next Generation cohort at a meet-and-greet...
A Toolkit of Theatrical Devices
Using film techniques to tell theatrical narratives.
From the production: It’s Dark Outside (dir. Arielle Gray, Chris Isaacs, Tim Watts)
Paying homage to both Film Noir and Western movies, torches and shadow work were used in It’s...
Auction Night at the Cradle of Creativity
This entertaining and lively event was hosted on Wednesday, May 24th 2017 to raise funds for both the current and incoming ASSITEJ Next Generation cohorts (more information on which can be found on the ASSITEJ...
The ‘Our Story, Your Story’ Project
Clowns Without Borders South Africa (CWBSA), an artist-led humanitarian organisation, arrived in George (South Africa) in early May 2017 to facilitate the final component of their 'Our Story, Your Story' (OSYS) project in local Primary...
Fiona McDonagh: A teacher’s story of dramatic change
This paper presents a case study derived from a larger phenomenological inquiry into the ‘lived experience’ of teachers cocreating drama in Irish primary classrooms. Co-creating drama depends on the active involvement of the teacher,...
Rannveig Thorkelsdóttir: How is drama as a subject implemented in Icelandic compulsory education?
In Iceland, drama is a subject in the national curriculum. Within a socio-cultural framework of understanding, an ethnographic study of the culture and the context for the implementation of drama was carried out and...
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;...
Chatting with Yannick Boudeau – Faces of the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019
Yannick Boudeau has been the General Manager and Producer at Compagnie la Casquette, a Theatre for Young Audience in Brussels, since 2007. Co-founding ASSITEJ Belgium in 2014, he has been the Chairman...
Art is a Free Voice?
Gunhild Bjørnsgård led a timely and relevant debate on whether we really have a free voice while creating Art. The discussion explored why Art is important to oneself and to society and...