Theatre in Education

Emerging in the mid-sixties, Theatre in Education became a unique hybrid of performance and child-centred learning. Contemporary Theatre in Education traces the creation and adaptation of this hybrid through the changing political, economic, and educational environment.

Is it possible for the hybrid to survive? Or have the economics of schools, the post-National Curriculum educational philosophy, and the lack of understanding from a new breed of teachers created an environment that has forced a mutation? Perhaps theatre in education has just evolved, but perhaps just forty years after it began, it is facing extinction.

It also takes a snapshot of the TIE being created today, considering all the projects being performed in Wales during a single month. The projects are analysed, and every TIE director is interviewed about the work and the policies of their companies. It becomes very clear that the distinction between TIE and Children’s Theatre is being blurred.