JOE WOODWARD
Why Not Cancel ALL ART: Cressida's Absurdist Refusal to Bowdlerise Her Own Life
I've had students decide Harry Potter was more relevant than anything Shakespeare did and other students deciding they could do better anywa
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JOE WOODWARD
- Aug 13, 2022
- 7 min
Why Teachers Fear the Trojan Women
Why do some teachers fear the "Trojan Women" and embrace "Grease"? If you type into the Google search engine "The Trojan Women in...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Jan 6, 2022
- 6 min
How To Destroy the Arts in Education
The clever bureaucrat's guide to bypassing the powerful arts lobby and achieving peaceful annihilation ... If you are an Education...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Sep 5, 2021
- 4 min
Theatre vs Cultural Entrapment
To discuss theatre and drama without any referencing of the epistemological dimensions that garner and shape artistic production is to...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Mar 8, 2021
- 11 min
Three Phases of Creativity and the Problem with a proposed Drama Curriculum
Gavin Bolton, an English educator, Drama practitioner and theorist, taught me something that became the most essential element in...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Dec 14, 2020
- 5 min
The Incredible Art of a Life
THIS ARTICLE WAS WRITTEN AND PUBLISHED IN SCREAM FOLLOWING THE DEATH OF DAVID BRANSON IN DECEMBER 2001. David Branson's legacy of...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Dec 12, 2020
- 4 min
The God of Mediocrity
Have you ever wondered what the opposite of "mediocrity" might be? Some say "excellence" ... but I don't think so. One can be excellent...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Aug 1, 2020
- 1 min
Theatre and Slightly Death
Wolfgang Grasse (1930-2008) created art works that featured a very slightly Death drawn from his experience of having been in Dresdon
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JOE WOODWARD
- Jun 30, 2020
- 2 min
The Role of Artists Working in Theatre
Over recent years three constant concepts along with the "cockroach" metaphor have indicated and defined the angle or perspectives
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JOE WOODWARD
- Jun 28, 2020
- 5 min
The Power of a Liminal Theatre
Filling the gap in theatre training and practice Understanding and applying principles of liminality in theatre practice can...
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JOE WOODWARD
- Jun 9, 2020
- 4 min
Cockroach Theatre
in a world where some would suggest art should follow market research, the cockroach might just provide an alternative positive model
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JOE WOODWARD
- Jun 3, 2020
- 1 min
Against the Violence of the State
See also Stan Grant's "My people die young in this country' speech go..."
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JOE WOODWARD
- May 13, 2020
- 6 min
Three Skeletons of Theatre
... how many young prospective actors are encouraged in their narcissism?
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JOE WOODWARD
- Apr 26, 2020
- 8 min
Ah the Animal
Turning to "Negative Capability with fifty years of major challenges to the notions of The Enlightenment
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