Contents
Issue 84 · Summer term 2 · 2018/19
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Regulars 5 Editorial 6 News 10 Opinion 12 Bardwatching
Catch up on all the latest Shakespeare news 13 Drama and me
Award-winning young playwright Sami Ibrahim 14 Green room
Is Damien Hinds’ ‘Five Foundations to Build Character’ a positive new policy for drama teaching? 33 Drama strategy
Rumours and eavesdropping 35 On course
Master of Fine Arts – Playwriting at The Lir, Trinity College, Dublin 37 Theatre practitioner
Vsevolod Meyerhold 38 Toolkit
Keeping control of the class 40 My five favourite plays
Peter Deam chooses his favourite plays for performance with students 52 Listings
Theatre workshops, events and training for adults and young people 58 Drama game
Moving Images
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Features 17 Film and television short
courses Sarah Lambie looks at courses available to you and your students 20 Nick Hern Books
We find out what the theatrical publisher offers to teachers 22 Enterprise @ the Rep
John Dabell reports on a work experience theatre takeover initiative at the Dundee Rep 24 Music & Drama Education Expo
report Alasdair Buchan had the best seat in the house at the MDEE and reports on drama sessions 26 Playscripts from Broadway
Licensing The US licensing company is opening a UK branch and offers scripts to schools 27 RWCMD NEW writing 2019
Commissioned works for young people are the focus of the conservatoire’s annual showcase 29 LAMDA Exam syllabus updates
Karen Pickles learns about changes in the new LAMDA exam syllabuses 31 Cinderella and Sleeping
Beauty, updated Phil Cleaves chats to Matt Beames, who has rewritten two classics for student performers
Reviews 48 Books
• Next Lesson • Private Peaceful (for ensemble/
for single actor) • The Methuen Drama Book of
Suffrage Plays • Contemporary Monologues for
Teenagers: Male/Female • 100 Acting Exercises for 8 – 18 Year
Olds • The No Rules Handbook for Writers
(know the rules so you can break them) 50 Performance
Richard III 50 DVD
Julius Caesar 51 Workshop
NCVM Pure Movement Day with Jackie Snow 51 Pocast
Evolution Festival 2019
Schemes of Work 43 Scheme summaries
KS2 Stig of the Dump: Using the book as a resource to teach the Stone Age to the Iron Age through Drama KS3/4 The Beauty Manifesto by Nell Leyshon KS3/4 Imaginary Friends GCSE Devising KS4/5 pool (no water) by Mark Ravenhill A Level – AQA Component 3 The reflective report: How to plan and structure the written work 47 One-off workshop
Gestures
Cover image: A student gets to grips with sound technology at Pauline Quirke Academy Cover credit: Brian Thomas Photography
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Erratum We apologise that the writer of the National Theatre’s Emil and the Detectives, Carl Miller, was incorrectly named in the last issue of TD.
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