The first day of sessions with the Globe education staff. It's been a whirl, introductions all around, 22 of us from all over the country! Into the Globe theatre for the first time. That was quite an amazing experience - it was like going into Epidaurus in that things made sense. The relationship of the audience, the staging of the plays, the theatre history that is interesting in lectures and readings becomes real as you are part of the space. Yolanda, someone from Globe education who we will be working with often drew us into the story of the "new" Globe and how it was created with what little is actually know about the first Globe. I'll take pictures and post those soon. We watched a scenic change where the stage hands lifted a huge box shaped wooden set piece to the heavens using rope and pulley.
The education sessions are refreshing and assuring! They are based in theatre education first, or perhaps first and foremost in sound educational theory - how students learn and engage in learning. The work we're doing and discussions that we're having use Shakespeare as a tool to examine and remember the theories and practice. One thing that's really struck me is how great it is to be with a community of learners who know and value theatre and recognize that theory and implementation not only go hand-in-hand, but that while theory influences practice, practice must also influence theory. How does this work engage students because as paramount as what's the theory behind this work?
Tomorrow - exploration of the movement session and hopefully some photos.
As they say in London... Cheers!
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