Despite the name of my new site, Plays for Schools, other Drama Teaching Resources for Schools can be found on there.
There is ‘Exploring Theatre: Stanislavski’ a great big Stanislavski file, which I wrote during lock-down, which is more complete and expansive than any previous ones. It also uses completely new exercises for each component of the System. Whether you already have one of my works on Stanislavski or not, this one is a must-have. Order Exploring Theatre: Stanislavski – Cost £50!
Also in this section is the first of three resources all called ‘Starters’ which contain information and exercises on a variety of practitioners and styles. The work on each practitioner is designed to last around 3 to 4 periods of lesson time. They contain enough to give a real flavour of each practitioner or theatre style through practical work and all use exercises that are mainly new too.
This means that teachers can offer more than one practitioner option to their students, by trying out the styles and the kind of work each involves in a short time period. Sometimes, I know from experience, a teacher is so busy that they fly to what they have always done, often regretting that those old lesson plans now feel stale and worn.
I delved into my old workshop material to come up with ideas that fitted into a do-able length of time, with practical work that I kept separate from the exercises used in my older resources. Now I no longer do workshops, it struck me I could free those exercises for further use.
Starters 1 contains Stanislavski, Brecht, Artaud, Peter Brook, Augusto Boal and Rudolf Laban. Order Starters 1 – Cost £40.
Starters 2 will contain Emma Rice and Kneehigh, Steven Berkoff, Jean-Louis Barrault, Jacques Lecoq, Katie Mitchell and Edward Gordon Craig.
Starters 3 will be styles rather than particular practitioners. It will contain Physical Theatre, Political Theatre, Commedia ‘dell Arte, Mime and Maskwork, Verbatim Theatre and Street Theatre.
I will get on with the two next Starters resources as soon as possible, plus some new plays that I am writing for the play section.
Keep checking this site and I’ll also use alerts for any new material on social media.
Jeni