Design and devising ideas

January 17, 2015

Very soon you will be working on your PPP or starting to try out ideas for a collaborative project. Both of these tasks require you to CREATE from a stimulus and have original ideas. The most challenging aspect of this task is to formulate the ideas for a story line,...

TPPP presentation tips

December 14, 2014

TPPP tips for presentations As you work towards your TPPP and probably have a few practices as mock exam approach, then you may want to follow the following process that I have use with my students. Below is a process that I used for preparing the content, with a...

Devising companies and Design

November 27, 2014

As you work towards your PPP and want to work out how to create theatre and what the elements are that go into the work you are probably searching for some inspiration. Below are some things that may help: 1. Devising companies and links to their sites and approaches...

Resources for Theorists

September 6, 2014

When you start to look for resources to be working on Theorist for inspiration for the Solo Performance, or for use in your own devised pieces, then a good place to start for inspiration by watching the national Theatre’s ‘Five Truths’ that looks at...

Working with a Theorist

Now that the new course has started there is a focus on students being able to research and apply the methodologies of a theatre theorist. This blog will focus on what I have been doing with my students in class to prepare them for the old and the new course. We have...

Inspired by what we SEE and HEAR

July 28, 2014

Recently I went to the theatre and was given headphones to wear and was ushered into an outdoor space where the audience was in the centre with an elevated set all around us. It was a beautiful sunny afternoon on the South Bank in London. Then something extraordinary...