Intimacy Direction Best Practices for School Theatre
This article asks theatre teachers to intentionally consider intimacy direction best practices to support students
Day: 1 April 2023
Reflections on ‘living through’ and ‘distancing’: a critical essay related to Heathcote’s and Brecht’s poetics
This scholarly essay problematises uses of the term living through drama in current educational drama field literature, by linking it to Dorothy Heathcote’s application of the term, and to concepts of distancing, in arts theory and more specifically to the theatre of Bertolt Brecht.
Exploring National Identity through Drama in Education
Can drama in education contribute to the respect and acceptance of different national identities among students with different ethnic backgrounds?
Volume 14 Editorial
Editorial Welcome to the fourteenth issue of Drama Research! This is the second issue in our new format, and it has a truly international dynamic, featuring articles from Colombia, Greece, Norway and the USA as well as the UK. One thing that all these countries have in common through recent experience is, of course, the …
Drama Research Volume 14
ISSN 2040-2228
April 2023
Speech Bubbles and the Teaching Assistant: investigating the impact of a drama intervention on school support staff.
Teaching Assistants have become an essential part of primary school life over the last 30 years. They represent around one third of the overall school workforce, a higher percentage in primary school and nurseries. Despite training and qualification opportunities, most are relatively poorly paid, often untrained, and high percentages admit to reluctantly seeking better paid work. This article reports on research into the impact of a Drama project on TAs in primary schools.
Performing Statecraft: The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens and States
The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists.