New Year’s Resolutions

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Feb 052011
 

Late January or early February marks the beginning of the academic year for school students across Australia (the home of The Drama Teacher), so it may be an opportune time for us drama and theatre teachers to have a think about a few new year’s resolutions. If you teach drama or theatre in another part of the world on a different time line, the new year brings with it many opportunities to make change for the better, midway through the academic year.

To get the ball rolling, I’ll list a few of my own new year’s resolutions for my professional life as a high school Drama teacher, while I hope and pray none of my students accidentally or deliberately end up reading this post! If they do come across it in their travels, well at least I’ll be kept honest, hey?

Justin’s Top 10 New Year’s Resolution 2011

  1. be more organised
  2. learn to prioritise
  3. plan, plan, plan!
  4. use more technology in the drama classroom
  5. play more targeted drama games
  6. empower my students more
  7. make a greater number of my drama lessons fun for my students
  8. learn new ideas and concepts from my students
  9. implement student suggestions in my curriculum
  10. be more passionate about drama teaching than ever before!

Anyone else wish to share their new year’s resolutions below? Please, feel free to comment!

Performers Physicality in Rehearsal: Italy

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Jan 252011
 

Heads up on what looks like a fascinating course for performing arts practitioners in Italy in March this year.

Performers Physicality in Rehearsal

International course 2011-2012 in ITALY.

The course is open to performing arts practitioners with professional stage experience working in various genres, techniques and styles. Five intensive practical sessions Session I – March 18th, 19th, 20th in Turin.

Apply for participation on:

http://www.iugte.com/projects/audition.php

http://picasaweb.google.com/globtheatre

Places are limited. The working languages are English and Italian. Participants who successfully complete the course receive a certificate.

Edward Albee Lecture

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Sep 142010
 

The Melbourne Theatre Company will soon take advantage of a local visit by one of the great American playwright’s, Edward Albee, in a free lecture on Sunday 17th October at 3pm, in the Sumner Theatre, Southbank.

Most famous for his scorching 1962 drama Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, 82 year-old Albee is a three-time Pulitzer Prize winner. He was also awarded the Lifetime Achievement Tony Award in 2005. Albee resides in New York City and to this day continues to mentor new writers for the theatre. I believe Albee is also still involved with the American Theatre Wing, as one of the coveted voters for the annual Tony Awards on Broadway.

This will not actually be a lecture, but is being billed as “Edward Albee in Conversation”. The playwright will be interviewed by Radio National’s Amanda Smith.

This event is highly relevant for lovers of theatre, drama teachers and performing arts university students.

Bookings essential: Edward Albee @ MTC.

Update: Here’s an unrelated interview with Edward Albee on the web from 2005, just prior to the playwright receiving his Lifetime Achievement Award.

RMIT Lighting Short Course September 2010

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Sep 092010
 

The Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology (RMIT) University’s School of Media and Communications is running a 3-day workshop in Production Lighting for Live Events in the upcoming September school holidays. This will undoubtedly prove useful for Drama/Theatre teachers wanting to know about stage lighting for their next school production. The short course runs from Wednesday 22 September to Friday 24th September at RMIT University’s Melbourne campus.

Course content includes:

  • Types of lantern
  • Use of lighting control systems & console operation
  • Permanent and portable lighting systems
  • Colour theory
  • Lighting plans
  • Beams and angles
  • Rigging and cables
  • Lighting stands
  • OHS
  • Electrical theory
  • Set−up and pack−down of lighting systems

Cost: $550.

For additional course information and enrolment details, go here.

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