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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


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

JOE WOODWARD
Mar 5, 20236 min read


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


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


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


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


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

JOE WOODWARD
Aug 1, 20201 min read


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


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


Three Skeletons of Theatre
... how many young prospective actors are encouraged in their narcissism?

JOE WOODWARD
May 13, 20206 min read


Ah the Animal
Turning to "Negative Capability with fifty years of major challenges to the notions of The Enlightenment

JOE WOODWARD
Apr 26, 20208 min read


Surreal Architecture of Play Writing
The idea of distortion to highlight particular aspects of otherwise hidden realities can be a key component of theatre making.

JOE WOODWARD
Apr 20, 20206 min read
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