DAY ROBERT 16 Contents Contents BRENNER MARC MURRAY MURRAY HELEN HELEN 37 5 Editorial 6 News 11 Views Meg Walters and Adam Milford 12 Bardwatching Catch up on all the latest Shakespeare news FEATURES 14 Theatre Works Discover a charity dedicated to providing disadvantaged children and young people with access to theatre 15 AI in the drama classroom A ‘how to’ guide for using generative AI for your lesson plans, script editing and more 16 Pilot Theatre How one York-based theatre company is tailoring its performances to the young people it serves 18 No National Plan? No problem Jo Lee takes a look at what we can do as drama educators to advocate for our subject PERFORMING ARTS 20 Seize the Day! The Drama and Theatre Education Alliance on their annual awareness campaign MDE AWARDS 22 Russeni Fisher Meet the winner of the Drama Inspiration Award 2024 BACKSTAGE MATTERS 23 Paper Puppets How can we engage students in drama using everyday materials? This company has the answer – puppets! DRAMA IN EARLY YEARS AND PRIMARY 25 National Theatre Collections Nick Smurthwaite finds out more about the evergrowing offering from this online resource for teachers and students GOING SOLO 27 MN Awards Take a look at the first Ofqual-regulated awarding body to specialist in Film and TV ON COURSE 29 ArtsEd The school outlines its courses in acting and musical theatre VENUE FOCUS 35 Mayflower Theatre One writer takes a look at the brilliant youth theatre work in Southampton LESSON PLANS AND STRATEGIES 30 Practitioner focus Stephen Berkoff 33 One-off workshop The Listeners 50 Drama strategy Future Perfect 43 PLAYS 36 Play for study Posh 37 Play for performance Accidental Death of an Anarchist 38 Play text reviews The A.I. Play; Junie B Jones is Not a Crook; Nowt Like This in America; Protest 40 Five great plays… …that focus on character development REVIEWS 41 Books That’s My Story The Accidental Producer 42 CPD Hotseating – the drama education podcast 42 Primary performance Polka Theatre’s Romeo and Juliet 43 Performances London Tide The Comeuppance 48 Schemes of Work summaries Full schemes available online: KS2 | Varjak Paw by SF Said KS3 | Physical comedy KS3/4 | The Pressures On Us KS4 | Working from a variety of texts KS5 | AQA A Level: Working Notebook LISTINGS: UK-WIDE 44 Performances 46 Workshops and courses Cover image: War Horse (featured) Credit: Brinkhoff Mögenburg www.dramaandtheatre.co.uk Summer Term 2 2023/24 Drama & Theatre 3