Theatre for Young Audiences and Migration
The Association of Theatre for Children and Young People (ASSITEJ) in France, Italy, and Spain are collaborating on a project that focuses on migration and the Performing Arts for Children and Young...
‘Animal Farm’ – Audience Reactions
After watching a Performance of Johannesburg, South Africa’s Shakexperience’s adaption of George Orwell’s Animal Farm, directed by Neil Coppen, I asked Schoolchildren and their Teachers for their reactions to the piece. The wealth of...
Whiteout: Audience Responses
Described as a piece which "gives resonance to the complexities of bi-racial relationships", Barrowland Ballet's production of Whiteout (choreographed by Natasha Gilmore), exploded onto the stage with distorted music and movement.
The Dancers began the performance clouded in...
Robyn Ewing and John Nicholas Saunders: Bridging the literacy-arts divide in Australian primary education:...
In neo-liberal times the distance between traditional understandings of literacy and the Arts has lengthened dramatically. A partnership between Australia’s largest theatre company and Australia’s oldest university has developed, School Drama, a co-mentoring teacher...
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...
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;...
Matthew Decoursey: Boal, Bolton and Philosophy on Changes of Perception
Jacques Rancière suggests to us that the process of including excluded people has to do with change of perception, a new "distribution of the sensible." Distance emerges between people by a process of categorization...
A Performance of Stork’s Gift
Check out the video above for some performance highlights and audience reactions from the performance at the ASSITEJ Artistic Gathering 2019 in Kristiansand.
Performance Synopsis: Anyone who awaits a stormy story...
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...
A Conversation with Pim & Theo
Pim & Theo, a production by New International Encounter & Odsherred Teater, was an experience I will never forget. The immersive complexity of the show was on display throughout - from the scenography, script,...