These blogs are all about the Homestead Theatre Classes and their projects.
The Royal Shakespeare Company is, according to the Guardian, planning on live streaming a performance of Richard II starring David Tennant around the world. I literally cannot even form a coherent sentence to explain how excited I am right now!
Pomp, Circumstance, and all the rest. Joyful faces under square hats, that sit jauntily upon the heads of mere babes. So assured, that the world is their oyster~ they are ready to take on the world. But, their parents know that behind their cocky smiles and false bravado~ these are the little boys and girls … More A whole new Journey
You’ve used gels to decorate your house. You don’t giggle when someone says “dramaturgy”. You go to a live theatre production and spend more time checking out the set and lighting design than actually watching the actors perform. You start thinking about which family members would be perfect for certain roles? You don’t have any … More My life as a theatre Teacher
“I was going to be in the Army. I chose stand-up comedy in the end. Slightly different.” – Eddie Izzard. Pause and see what your gut reaction is to this: “Theater can change the world.” What do you think of that? Did you nod emphatically and think “right on, brother,” smile indulgently and think “yeah, … More Can Theatre Change the World?
My life every day…
Originally Posted by Lyn Gardner Tuesday 7 May 2013 11.48 EDT guardian.co.uk Local theatres must engage with their communities through education and participatory initiatives, thereby creating an army of advocates governments can’t ignore Is the conversation around arts funding becoming more grown up? There are signs that it is, and it couldn’t come at a … More How theatres can make everyone fight for the arts
Every year, there’s a so-called exposé on the traumatic aftereffects of war, as if that grim fact were news. The truth is that as we shift from stones to clubs to spears to swords to cannons to muskets to machine guns to gas to bombs, we’re only changing the type of destruction, not the results. The only difference … More Tonight’s the Night!
Ajax in Iraq tells the parallel stories of the eponymous Greek hero of Sophocles’ tragedy Ajax and a young female soldier in Iraq named AJ. Ajax, gripped by jealousy and anger and driven mad by the goddess Athena, slaughters a herd of livestock in a violent rage. Meanwhile, in contemporary Iraq, AJ experiences horrors that … More Stop and look around
A thought-provoking social statement about war and injustice, with compelling acting and an accomplished Directing production. Plato once said “only the dead have seen the end of war,” expressing with prophetic accuracy his belief that war would always be a constant in the history of human kind. And it’s precisely the topic of war and … More Ajax in Iraq
Common sense and Heresy for creatives.
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