This module engages course participants in the teaching of theatre history, theory, and context. It will approach seminal historical moments (e.g.  from Ancient Greece; from early 20^th century Europe; etc.), texts (e.g. by Aristotle; by Edward Gordon Craig, etc.), spaces (e.g. the Baroque theatre; the Black Box, etc.), and practitioners (e.g. Konstantin Stanislavski; Bertolt Brecht; Stella Adler, Ariane Mnouchkine, Uta Hagen, Patsy Rodenburg), and will lead course participants to seek ways of teaching the subject matter through active learning – utilising approaches that engage students directly with the subject content rather than through a more traditional sitting-down classroom dynamic. Examples would include, re-enacting a social context from Ancient Greek history, building an actual theatre space with different materials, and impersonating a theatre practitioner. The objective is to invite one’s students to be active participants in their learning, and to give them a broad understanding of theatre as a field of study from where they can nurture further interest in the subject matter.

By the end of this programme, participants should be able to: