JOE WOODWARD
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!
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JOE WOODWARD
Mar 5, 20236 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
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JOE WOODWARD
Aug 13, 20227 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...
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JOE WOODWARD
Sep 5, 20214 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...
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JOE WOODWARD
Mar 8, 202111 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...
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JOE WOODWARD
Dec 14, 20205 min read
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, 20204 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...
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JOE WOODWARD
Aug 1, 20201 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
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JOE WOODWARD
Jun 30, 20202 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
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JOE WOODWARD
Jun 28, 20205 min read
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, 20204 min read
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
May 28, 20204 min read
The River of Uncertainty
Water Logic is a very apt description of what is essentially taking place within a theatre event
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JOE WOODWARD
May 13, 20206 min read
Three Skeletons of Theatre
... how many young prospective actors are encouraged in their narcissism?
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JOE WOODWARD
Apr 26, 20208 min read
Ah the Animal
Turning to "Negative Capability with fifty years of major challenges to the notions of The Enlightenment
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