Drama Tuesday - Making Drama Spaces your own

Images by Robin Pascoe

Taken at Woodvale SHS

Schools, particularly secondary schools are anonymous spaces. I envy the capacity of the primary teacher to take a classroom and personalise it for the teaching and also for this year’s students. That’s not always possible in secondary schools where purposes are multipurpose.

I am interested then when I can find examples where teachers have added value to their spaces. These images show how one teacher commissioned her visual arts students to create large posters of playwrights. They are displayed on the walls of the Performing Arts Centre. 

How can you personalise your drama teaching space?

P.S. Who are other “overlooked” and “out of fashion” playwrights who deserve to be given another look in the 21st Century?

We think of Lawrence as novelist and poet before playwright so it’s useful to remember him in this role (and to keep alive the spirit of GBS). 

IN 1913 D. H. LAWRENCE spoke of his plays as relaxation from the more arduous work of novel writing: "I enjoy so much writing my plays-they come so quick and exciting from the pen-that you musn't growl at me if you think them a waste of time."l Although he wrote seven plays and a fragment,2 Lawrence didn't take his dramatic work very seriously. (From Waterman, A.E. (1959). The Plays of D. H. Lawrence. Modern Drama 2(4), 349-357. doi:10.1353/mdr.1959.0053.)