Theatre Education Part 1 – How We Got Here
Dunkirk, NY – Over the Labor Day weekend I spent a lot of time doing two things. One was bringing my son back to NIU, where he will spend two weeks preparing for his upcoming semester studying at the Moscow Art Theatre school. The other was arranging with Scott Walters over at Theatre Ideas for a series of parallel postings discussing the state of theatre education. Both of us had talked in each of our blogs about our desire to write about the state of theatre education, but neither of us had gotten around to it. So after trading some emails, we’ve arranged on a very loose structure for these series of posts. Scott has already posted his first entry, so I am following up with my entry on how theatre education has gotten to the point that it has.
Rather than taking an objective historical perspective, though, I thought I would take a more introspective approach and tell my own story within theatre education and try to parallel that with Scott’s historical perspective. I am hoping this will provide readers with both an objective and subjective look at the same issue. Continue Reading »
