Drama Education, Acting and Directing

• Drama education (and “applied theatre”), directing and acting: “making the democratic idea visible”
  • Overview and intro drama, devising and directing
  • Devising
  • Directing
  • Acting
  • Drama Education

I Workshops and teaching about:

1 Introduction – what is drama education and devising (not theatre)? And how are politics for sustainable democracy, pedagogy and esthetics linked to each other?

2 Devising – a workshop series and an overview lecture: how to develop a play and how to stage it with a group – basic introduction in creative democratic cooperation and drama improvisation.

Here is the page for the devising dimension.

3 Directing and acting: the basic training (two booklets) – exploring a humane-democracy approach

3.1 Acting (voice and movement; role; text; scene work)

Booklet with a new humane democratic approach in acting training

3.2 Directing: how to see the world as humane space

• Booklet with a humane democratic approach and training in directing;
• Lecture about working with a text (example: “The Jungle”);
• Examples of film-directing as exploring a common “humane material of integrity” (critique of P.T. Anderson; L. Aschan; S. Spielberg; I. Bergman etc.)

Here is the page for the directing dimension.

4 Drama education, Educational drama

How to use drama for all topics in school and universities as a method; example: “The journey to the climate conference and the forest” and lecture about the regenerative pedagogy

II Mentorship/director-producer:

for people and groups writing/staging your own play, exploring sustainability and democracy with creative means etc. Experience of working with hundreds of students and children, producing theatre plays and texts