This is a memory aid to help students learn about thirty key ideas associated with the French actor and director Antonin Artaud. It can also be used in part, or in full, as a warm-up for drama classes.
The Alphabet of Artaud
Surrounding the Tower
A four-mile circumnavigation of Hoghton Tower.
Exit Seven
A warning for drivers using the M61 motorway.
Bending Bob backwards
An appreciation of Girl from the North Country This is a quality production. It is not, and does not claim to be, a musical. It is a play with music. It is a very good play with very good music and as seen at the Lowry on 21st September 2022, it was very well performed. … Continue reading Bending Bob backwards
UNSIX me here
Don’t get me wrong – I didn’t HATE it. I didn’t even dislike it. It just didn’t do it for me. Maybe I’m just too much, like, MOCK TUDOR?
Long Liv Love
In memoriam of ONJ on her birthday.
Up the garden path
The twelve paths of the unspoken garden do not go anywhere but lead everywhere They go to places that do not exist.
Looping the Lune
A four-mile fool-proof circular walk alongside the river that gave Lancashire its name.
Augustine
August is the month when the unspoken garden stops and thinks. Things still grow, but the growing is slow. The knowing does its growing.
What’s the Drama?
It was always a tumbleweed moment. I considered it vital, upon meeting a new drama class, to make the first lesson active and fun. The final fifteen minutes would be allocated for a sit-down discussion. The question was simple enough. “So, what is drama?” Some of the participants were new to drama, others had done it for two years, or five years or in some cases – if they’d been to drama clubs – ten years. The answer was invariably. . . Silence.
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