Podcast: More Than Theatre
by Dr Paul Sutton
Mixing drama, learning and digital media, theatre company C&T strive to make its work stand for more than theatre. In these regular podcasts, C&T examine these overlapping interests, exploring, through interviews, reviews and debate, new approaches to applied theatre, drama education, creative work with young people, community theatre, digital and popular culture. More than theatre is supported by the University of Worcester, UK and the Elmley Foundation.
Episodes
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Serious Gaming - Video games and drama
Australian research and academic David Cameron talks with Dr Paul Sutton at the international IDEA conference in Hong Kong about the potential impact of video games and 'serious' gaming on drama and applied theatre.
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+Verb: Lizi Patch, Drama Animateur
Young people in the rural community of Pocklington participated in +Verb – part of the Arts Council England's Young People's Participatory Theatre project. Lizi Patch, Animateur, reflects on the experience with Paul Sutton.
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+Verb – Al Pagan, Digital Artist
What are the performative, technical and learning issues raised by involving video game technology in drama practice? Paul Sutton talks to digital artists Al Pagan who has developed a Nintendo Wii game for C&T.
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+Verb – Greg Foster, Drama Animateur
How did a young theatre practitioner take to using digital media as part of his drama practice? Greg Foster talks to Paul Sutton about his experience of Arts Council England's Young People's Participatory Theatre scheme.
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Marc Prensky - Part 2 Challenge to Educators
On a flying visit to the UK, Marc Prensky, the noted thinker and educator famous for popularising the term "Digital Native", talks about the digital challenge facing educators. What must we do to prepare young people for a future we can barely imagine?
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Marc Prensky - Part 1 Digital Natives
Part1. On a flying visit to the UK, Marc Prensky, the noted thinker and educator famous for popularising the term "Digital Native", talks about the digital challenge facing educators. What must we do to prepare young people for a future we can barely imagine?
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Drama and performance aiding health education
Katharine Low talks to MoreThanTheatre at the 2008 Theatre and Performance Research Association conference in Leeds about "Our place, Our stage", an exploration of how performance can play a role in sexual and reproductive health education.
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Young People’s Participatory Theatre: +Verb
+Verb is a pilot project for Arts Council England's pioneering YPPT scheme to find new ways of engaging young people in drama.
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Creative Training with Applied Theatre
What benefits can the processes of applied theatre bring to the world of business, especially through creative training?
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Young People’s Participatory Theatre
This Arts Council England initiative is finding new ways of encouraging young people to participate in youth theatre and progress to employment in the theatre industry.
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Forum Theatre in the Slums of Nairobi
Peter Mwashi is using forum theatre techniques to effect social change in the slums of Nairobi. C&T finds out more about his valuable work.
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Belgrade TIE - the legacy of the world’s first Theatre In Education company
Jack Shuttleworth, Belgrade TIE's last Administrator, talks about the legacy of the groundbreaking company, and the successes and failures of the TIE movement.
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An Introduction To More Than Theatre
This Arts Council England initiative is finding new ways of encouraging young people to participate in youth theatre and progress to employment in the theatre industry.
About this show
Mixing drama, learning and digital media, theatre company C&T strive to make its work stand for more than theatre. In these regular podcasts, C&T examine these overlapping interests, exploring, through interviews, reviews and debate, new approaches to applied theatre, drama education, creative work with young people, community theatre, digital and popular culture. More than theatre is supported by the University of Worcester, UK and the Elmley Foundation.
Hosted by
Dr Paul Sutton
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