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How to Deal with the Fear of Creating Something No One Will See
Metaphor within metaphor and the terror of being alone with one's own impulses that no one, literally no one else, is in anyway interested!
JOE WOODWARD
Apr 18, 20246 min read
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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...
JOE WOODWARD
Aug 13, 20227 min read
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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...
JOE WOODWARD
Jan 6, 20226 min read
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Theatre vs Cultural Entrapment
To discuss theatre and drama without any referencing of the epistemological dimensions that garner and shape artistic production is to...
JOE WOODWARD
Sep 5, 20214 min read
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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...
JOE WOODWARD
Mar 8, 202111 min read
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TO BE OR NOT IN 2021
We say things without really comprehending any meaning. Wishing people "Happy New Year" has a positive ring. Yet with all the sound and...
JOE WOODWARD
Jan 1, 20213 min read
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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...
JOE WOODWARD
Dec 12, 20204 min read
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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
JOE WOODWARD
Jun 30, 20202 min read
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Cockroach Theatre
in a world where some would suggest art should follow market research, the cockroach might just provide an alternative positive model
JOE WOODWARD
Jun 9, 20204 min read
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Against the Violence of the State
See also Stan Grant's "My people die young in this country' speech go..."
JOE WOODWARD
Jun 3, 20201 min read
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The River of Uncertainty
Water Logic is a very apt description of what is essentially taking place within a theatre event
JOE WOODWARD
May 28, 20204 min read
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Removing Emotional Toxicity from the Actor and Creator
Toxicity is not about techniques. It's not about actor training. It IS about the emotional straitjacket that impairs the creative process an
JOE WOODWARD
Apr 29, 20208 min read
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