September 1
It is a different way of exploring and seeing. It is an experiment. Much of my work is in primary schools, using drama as a tool to engage children in their learning. Over the years my practice has developed to include a wide range of creative...
September 1
The contrivance of pencil and performers proved to be a productive session. This was a mini adventure of collaboration that crossed grade levels and curriculum. It was a combination of grade 5 art students from elementary and grade 6 theatre...
September 1
we travelled to the Escher museum to be immersed in his work As a student growing up in the very expressive town of Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire, England, it was almost impossible to not have a creative passion and mine starts with a deep...
September 1
we are always being influenced by each other All art has a stimulus, a starting point, an idea made flesh. Whether it’s an oil painting, a ceramic pot, a photograph or a piece of script. We know that inspiration and influence is around us in...
September 1
we can tell a hundred different versions of our life story depending on our audience Sue MacLaine is a Brighton-based theatre-maker, performer and playwright. In her show Still life: an audience with Henrietta Moraes audiences are given sketch...
May 1
They became my family - when I was away from mine. My first ISTA festival proved to be an opening to a whole new world when I ventured off to my first festival ten years ago. I had just started my first international school position in a small...
May 1
a lasting sense of connectivity and theatrical community I sidle through the door of rehearsal room 16T at Ripley Grier Studios to observe the work my students are doing in the master classes. The ensemble is seated in a casual but active...
May 1
ISTA reminds you that the world, despite its size, is in fact very small. It was a cold, wet and windy day in South Yorkshire in 2004. I was in my second year of teaching drama at a large secondary comprehensive. I was fortunate to find myself...