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School Support

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Youth Theatres

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New Publications

Drama to Inspire: a London Drama Guide to excellent practice in drama for young people
Edited by John Coventon

This new book is a collection of practice based accounts by fifteen leading practitioners who have had a connection with London Drama, including Dorothy Heathcote, Jonothan Neelands, Andy Kempe and Daniel Shindler.

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Order in the Chaos
by Danielle Mackenzie

This new practical resource book by Danielle Mackenzie published by London Drama provides teachers with seven exciting units of work and materials designed for the GCSE Edexcel Drama Examintion, New Specification, helping to organise "Order" in all that potential "Chaos".

Published as a downloadable E-Book.

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Stanislavski in Practice: exercises for students
by Nick O'Brien

This book is an unparalleled step-by-step guide to Stanislavski’s System. Each element of the System is covered practically through studio exercises and jargon-free discussion.

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London Drama Members!

Get 5% discount on Drama to Inspire, Order in the Chaos, Stanislavski in Practice and all London Drama books. (Log in required.) Applies also to members of National Drama and English Speaking Board. Find out more

Drama with EAL Students (Members)

This course will offer participants an insight into Daniel’s practice. He calls his Drama curriculum ‘Who am I?’ and its central aim is nurturing the health of the child. Schemes of work from Key Stage 3 and 4 will be shared practically. In doing so participants will acquire a range of strategies they could use in their own classrooms. The INSET will be especially aimed teachers or practitioners who find themselves with growing numbers of pupils whose first language is not English.

Daniel Shindler is currently The Head of Performing and Visual Arts as well as a senior teacher at Swanlea School, a large 11-16 inner city secondary school in Whitechapel, Tower Hamlets, in London. There are over 60 different languages spoken in the school although the students are predominantly Bengali, with 90% of the pupils having English as an additional language. Ofsted described the students as ‘reflective and thoughtful and are excellent ambassadors for multicultural Britain’ (Ofsted 2008). Daniel has taught for over 20 years in a range of settings in the UK and overseas, including rural,city and international schools. He regularly shares his practice, leading workshops for a range of organisations including National Drama and Goldsmiths, University of London. The Icelandic Drama association have recently invited him over to Reykjavik to deliver a workshop.

Tuesday 1st December: 6.30-8.30pm (Registration 6-6.30pm) at Central School of Speech and Drama (Room Y)

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Recommended products

Playing a Part - Drama & Citizenship (Members) (£16.99 £16.14)
by Danny Braverman
Trentham Books
ISBN: 9781858562414
more info

Drama Techniques for Language Teachers (Members) (£19.50 £18.53)
by Alan Maley and Alan Duff
Cambridge University Press
ISBN:978-0-521-601191-1
more info

Learning to Teach in the Secondary School (Members) (£23.99 £22.79)
by Susan Capel, Marilyn Leask, Tony Turner (Editors)
Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9780415478724
more info

Recent Courses

Physical Theatre with Frantic assembly

with Neil Bettles
Saturday 13th March 2010
10am-3.30pm

Dealing with the Real World

with Professor Jonothan Neelands
Saturday 7th November 2009
10am-3.30pm
at Oval House Theatre
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Voices in the Park

~ A Mantle of the Expert Approach to Drama
led by Adam Annand
Wednesday 4th March 2009
7-9pm