What does it mean to teach theatre today? These conversations explore the evolving art of drama pedagogy — from actor training methodologies and curriculum design to the challenges of teaching embodied practice across disrupted and digital landscapes. Practitioners from around the world reflect on how they pass the craft forward.
Dec 5, 2024
Liz Morgan, Maulikraj Shrimali, and Vandana Asha explore how Theatre of the Oppressed shapes democratic organisations, anti-caste practice, and community-rooted activism across diverse contexts.
Sep 19, 2024
Michael Pierce, Denise Kenney, and Ellie Nixon explore how Lecoq’s pedagogy can be adapted to address ecological crisis, decenter anthropocentrism, and evolve with local contexts.
Nov 23, 2023
Lucy Hopkins and Saskia Solomons explore Internal Family Systems (IFS) therapy as a radical, compassion-based framework for transforming theatre training and performance practice.
Oct 26, 2023
Akhila Khanna and Radha Ramaswamy revisit Boal’s Theatre of the Oppressed, exploring allyship, dialogue, and how T.O.’s spirit can be propagated in polarised, contemporary India
Aug 25, 2022
Delhi-based playwright Neel Chaudhuri reflects on slowness, repetition, and the “velocity of expectation” in pedagogy, questioning how students and teachers can embrace being genuinely unprepared.
Jun 2, 2022
Prabhath Bhaskaran explores the intersection of farming, Kalaripayattu, and theatre-making in Japan, embracing chance, imbalance, and chaosmos as the very source of creativity and community.
Mar 24, 2022
Nilüfer Gros and Sabine Choucair share how they create theatre from personal testimonies in war-torn Turkey and Lebanon, navigating political danger through subversion and humour.
Dec 9, 2021
Practitioners reflect on what they’re leaving behind post-pandemic: commercialised art, passive pedagogy, workaholism, and toxic spaces — embracing slowness, joy, and authentic practice instead.
Nov 11, 2021
Sophia Stepf examines the inherent power imbalances of Global North-South artistic collaborations, reflecting honestly on privilege, colonial funding structures, and her Maji Maji Flava project.
Oct 21, 2021
Clark Baim and Pablo Gershanik explore ethical frameworks for staging personal trauma in theatre, presenting the Drama Spiral and Intimate Models as tools for safe,
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