By Ellen Flaks
As a Theater Major at Syracuse University in the ‘80’s, I had an opportunity to teach young children in a Saturday morning creative drama class at the local community center. I...
By Mandy McKenna
Both Berkoff and Godber are hugely popular with young people for good reason. They are both very enjoyable to perform as they make bold physical statements which are hugely theatrical...
By Anna Kemp
For the last few years, I have been running theatre workshops for kids in the Alpujarra mountains in the south of Spain. I moved to a village there with my husband and our three young kids...
By Alison Chaplin
Nearly 30 years ago I co-founded a youth theatre and it very quickly became a popular place for young people to cut their theatrical teeth. In the early days – during that stage...
The ethos of drama in education today owes an enormous debt to the inspiration of one woman. Dorothy Heathcote (MBE) began her working life as a weaver in a Lancashire woollen mill at the age of...
Jacques Lecoq developed an approach to acting using seven levels of tension. These changed and developed during his practice and have been further developed by other practitioners. The following suggestions...
This engaging and interactive storytelling technique enables any kind of story - simple or complex - to be brought alive, even without prior knowledge of the characters or plot. As well...
By David Farmer (First published in Teaching Drama Magazine)
Getting Started
Devising a piece of theatre can be a stimulating and exciting journey towards the development of a performance which...
Drama is an effective way of helping students to learn languages including English as a Second Language (ESL), as it uses active teaching and learning styles likely to motivate and sustain the attention...
Educational programme
Forkbeard Fantasy run regular workshops and residencies as an integral part of their artistic programme. Courses range from one-day workshops to their popular six-day Read More...
Practical exercises exploring the Forkbeard approach
Through the Looking Glass
To explain Forkbeard's extraordinary melding of film and live performance, it is useful to show students extracts of their...
Key theory, ideas and practices
Forkbeard Fantasy are pioneers of cross-artform multimedia theatre. Their subversive performances are a seemingly anarchic...
This book provides an excellent framework for Key Stage 3 drama., including 16 practical, varied and imaginative units of work with clear aims, backed up by resource sheets and a model...
A highly practical book providing a wide range of ideas for using drama across the curriculum, with themes ranging from Ancient Egypt and Greek Myths to Silent Film, Shakespeare and...
Designed to be used as a dip-into book, containing over 40 approaches to using drama with well-known texts already popular with children. The sections cover fiction, poetry, non-fiction...
A practical manual of drama lesson approaches for working across a range of curriculum subjects. Valuable advice about drama policies and evaluation as well as accessible hands-on...
This book contains a series of ready-planned drama lessons based on 12 readily-available books for 4-7 year olds. A range of drama techniques are used throughout. The lessons...
The latest addition to the series of new editions for 11-16 year olds from Shakespeare's Globe Education tackles Romeo and Juliet. Just like the edition...
Jessica Swale follows up her popular first collection of drama games with a second volume that will be of use to anybody embarking on devising their own performance...
This CD-ROM presents an abridged animated version of A Midsummer Night's Dream broken down into forty simple scenes. Children click on the 'Next' button once they have finished listening to and watching a scene. Each scene has a one sentence summary for children to read and listen to and they can click on a character to hear an extract of a speech...
After school drama clubs are a popular choice as part of extended schools programming and this book is aimed squarely at teachers and freelance practitioners...
By my troth, I am fain to recommend this highly practical book if you are looking to explore Shakespeare with primary-aged varlets. The author provides more...
This invaluable book brings together a whole range of contemporary approaches to drama in education. 12 leading practitioners from the worlds of educational drama and professional...
Many schools are finding it more and more difficult to engage children in mathematics. This book aims to correct that by placing a whole range of creative approaches into the...
Macbeth is the first in a series of new editions from Shakespeare's Globe Education. Aimed at 11-16 year olds, the book brings the text alive through dozens of full-colour photos...
Review by Chris Lawrence, London Drama
National Drama’s International Drama Conference this year was held at Swansea University 11-14th April 2011. Titled Drama - Same Difference and subtitled diversity and mutuality of process and practice it attracted attendees from every continent on Earth (except Antarctica) and provided a rich programme of keynotes,...