Drama Research - NATIONAL DRAMA

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training: Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity

1 April 2023 22 February 2024

Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training focuses on neuro and physical difference and dis/ability in the teaching of performance and associated studies. It offers 19 practitioners’ research-based teaching strategies, aimed to enhance equality of opportunity and individual abilities in performance education.

Challenging ableist models of teaching, the 16 chapters address the barriers that can undermine those with dis/ability or difference, highlighting how equality of opportunity can increase innovation and enrich the creative work.

Performing Statecraft: The Postdiplomatic Theatre of Sovereigns, Citizens and States

1 April 2023 22 February 2024

The crafts of governance and diplomacy are spectacular, theatrical, and performative. Performing Statecraft investigates the performances of states, their leaders, and their citizens on an expanded field of the global arts of statecraft to consider the role of performance in the domestic and international affairs of states, and the interventions into global politics by artists, scholars, and activists.

Stepping into Eternity: the experience of time in the drama of Dorothy Heathcote

1 April 2022 19 May 2022

As human individuals we live our lives within several embedding systems in Time, so that we are always dealing with multiple temporal conceptions.

Third Inquiries – towards the mobilization of form and place

1 April 2022 19 May 2022

This communication identifies and discusses aesthetic and pedagogical issues of an experience with the third fragment of Brecht’s learning play “The Baden-Baden Lesson on Consent”.

Volume 13 Notes on Authors

1 April 2022 1 April 2022

Our authors for this volume are: Nicola Abraham, Taiwo Afolabi, Faustina Brew, James Clarke, Isabelle Gatt, Rachel Hudspith, Jemma Llewellyn, Sofia Martyn and Andrew Novell.

Volume 13 Editorial Board

1 April 2022 28 December 2023

Editor in Chief
Chris Lawrence

Volume 13 Editorial

1 April 2022 1 April 2022

First of all, let me welcome you to the new look Drama Research. National Drama, the professional association for teachers of Drama and Theatre, has invested in a brand new website and Drama Research has benefitted from this upgrade. We have attempted to make the journal as accessible and approachable as possible and so we …

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Drama Research Volume 13

1 April 2022 6 June 2022

April 2022

Teaching and Learning in the Crucible: Actors with disabilities as experts preparing pre- service teachers to be inclusive educators.

1 April 2022 19 May 2022

Dorothy Heathcote understood teaching and learning to take place in a kind of ‘crucible’ in which participants, who are both teachers and learners, contribute to the mix and produce new understandings.

Valuing Tacit Knowledge and Clear Pedagogy: Continuing Professional Development for Teachers.

1 April 2022 19 May 2022

This article reports on a continuing professional development (CPD) programme that was rolled out into approximately 20 primary and secondary schools around Northamptonshire and beyond.