As a subject it's relevant in later life whether presenting on road shows, standing up in meetings, AGM's, dealing with the press, or at the front end on the stage. It develops confidence, communication skills and an ability to reach people. It's importance should never be underestimated as a subject. The ability to communicate often takes you further than pure academic ability.
Drama teachers, we shouldn’t need to Make the case for our subject. And yet too often it feels like we have to be seen to show more rigour than other departments because of the prevailing, reductive and stereotypical perception of drama as a ‘mickey mouse’ subject. Not only this, we have desperately to clutch to the realm of abstractions like ‘soft skills’ 🤢in order to safeguard our relevance. I don’t think we need to, or that we should feel beholden to this utter nonesense - it’s defensive. Show me a good theatre director who isn’t an active intellectual? A designer who can’t conceptualize? An actor who doesn’t have an acute sensistivity to language? A published playwright who doesn’t have a depth of knowledge and understanding? Where are the teachers who can fully realise and intepret Shakespeare for a young audience? Well they are in the drama studio. I would love to be able to claim that exam boards aren’t prostrate to the need to justify drama’s existence - but they are. It’s time to move away from justification and move towards education. #teachdrama #drama #dramateacher #arts #schools #artseducation #theatre
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