Sign up to save your podcasts
Or
Share The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School.
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Share to email
Share to Facebook
Share to X
Or
The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School.
The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School. episodes
- The Drama Centre 1963 - 2022. Annie Tyson. The rise and fall of this influential school.
In this episode Robert discusses the Drama Centre with Annie Tyson who describes the four pillars of teaching that underpinned the foundation of an acting conservatoire which, along perhaps with the short lived Old Vic School of Michel Saint Denis, could comfortably stake a claim to be the most radically influential institution in the history of professional actor training in the United Kingdom. Annie also talks about the decisions and events which will lead this special and precious school to close its doors in 2022.
Support the show
1 hr 7 min - Stage Combat at the Drama School : A bonus episode (poor sound quality)
In this bonus episode Robert discusses the history and methodology of stage combat training at Lamda with Jonathan Waller and Kristina Soeborg. This episode was recorded over the phone so - apologies - the sound quality is really poor.
Support the show
32 min - Stage Combat in the Drama School: Part One
An Introduction to an interview with Kristina Soeborg and Jonathan Waller on the subject of Stage Combat in the Drama School.
Support the show
16 min - Three ideas about whole actor training programmes from The University of Minnesota Conference of 1966. In memoriam Kristen Linklater.
In Memoriam for Kristen Linklater I read three accounts of whole actor trainings from 1966 by Lee Strasberg, Duncan Ross and Kristen Linklater and discuss a theatre and training in a very different kind of crisis to the one we face today.
Support the show
44 min - Some theories about curriculum...does the Lamda ‘sleazy’ count?
In this episode we discuss a simple set of views on what curriculums are and what they do.
The episode explores this set of possible curricula- Curriculum as a body of knowledge to be transmitted. A conservative approach. Related to the canon.
- Curriculum designed to achieve a particular end in students - a scientific or neo-liberal approach. Concerned with jobs and what society needs economically.
- Curriculum as process - developmentally focused - in harmony with a student’s interests.
- Curriculum as praxis. The social justice focused curricula of the social meliorists. Concerned with analysing society and raising a generation equipped to defeat injustice.
Support the show
17 min - Introduction to the podcast
In this introductory episode I explain briefly why I've decided to make this podcast and what I want to achieve with it.
Support the show
10 min - Pilot episode
This practise episode written in lockdown asks the question : Why The Theatre ? Robert can be contacted at [email protected]
Support the show
26 min
About The History of Actor Training in the British Drama School.
From the publisher's feed
An investigation into the development and trajectory of actor training in the United Kingdom.