DramaShaz
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Actor, director, corporate trainer, voice coach, teacher. Doing my best to support working class kids to get into the industry. My opinions are my very own.
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Just wow. Our year 12 students analysed some of the work from
@Coldwar_Steve
and responded with their own art in many forms including; satire, TikTok, impersonations, dance and this wonderful piece of art (on canvas) by a 17 year old woman. The young are speaking 🎭
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I was reminded today that teaching is a middle class profession. How easily can it be defined as that? I left school and home at 16. I battled and bartered to get the education I wanted. I own nothing but an old car and some shoes. Don’t we need working class teachers?
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Calling all Drama teachers and practitioners The consultation about the future of BTEC extended diplomas is happening this week. The proposal is to scrap the qualification. There is no replacement for Performing Arts in the T levels. They do not value the subject as a vocation!
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There is too often an assumption that Drama is a subject for outgoing, confident young humans. Au contraire. Drama is more important for the quiet, introverted thinkers. Watch them fly, with the right kind of teaching ❤️🎭
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Just a bit thrilled that more than 30 of our students have offers for Drama and Dance Schools, more pending. They are mostly working class young people who have grabbed their boot straps. Thank you to the schools we partner with and the professionals who have advised them ❤️
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Just love the way a young persons face lights up when you reassure them and their parents that there are JOBS in the creative industries. We may not all end up on stage but it is WORK. Celebrate creative kids and give them proper careers advice. Don’t dampen those flames 🔥
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Imagine if a teacher accidentally sent out photographs of their bits and then gave out details of their colleagues?
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Heartbreaking day for our beautiful, vibrant, multicultural city
#Nottingham
so much shared grief and love. Can the right wing zealots keep their gobs shut until we all have time to process this tragedy
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I want to emotionally congratulate our A Level Drama students and my team. When Drama A Level numbers are falling, we entered 50 with 100% pass rate & a massive 80% A* to B score. Our students have secured places at Drama Schools, Universities & the fabulous
#IDSP
@Funky_Studios
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In 2005 we had nearly 140 students on our Performance courses. We now have; 150 on Drama A Level; 45 Btec Performing Arts Cert; 40 Dance A Level; 28 Btec Performing Arts Dip; 38 Music A Level; 40 Music Tech and 58 Trinity Grade 8 Acting. That’s 399! That’s 260 % up!! 👍🎭
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Please, please keep streaming theatre for the price of a ticket. As a teacher of theatre I do my best to see as much as possible in London. The only feasible shows I can get to are a Saturday matinee. No trains home after an evening performance. Train fair is £100.
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This years birthday photograph and my birthday message is on the T shirt 🎭
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We will have 8 A level Drama groups next year across Year 12 and 13. What a beautiful thing. Big groups too! Probably 145 students. Our latest progression stats show huge success into drama schools and creative courses. Not bad for
#Nottingham
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What do you want to see when theatres open? I want absolute madness. I want Genet, Beckett, Pinter, Ionesco, Fo, Satre, Kane
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7:84 theatre company, established in 1971 by John McGrath as a reaction to 84% of wealth belonging to 7% of the population. Inspirational and brilliant!
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I never wanted to be a teacher. I was kind of bribed and coerced into it (long but interesting story). The very first time I was put into a room with teenagers, I felt a vocation pull like no other. Such a privilege to work with those amazingly inquisitive, argumentative and
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I need to talk about ‘one offs’ in domestic violence. I was punched in both eyes, once! I was squeezed until my ribs broke, once! My head was smacked against a wall once and that time I phoned the police. Domestic violence is never a ‘one off’ and once is enough!
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I am about to finish my 17th year as a post 16 teacher. I have never felt more fired up and passionate about the job that has let me work with some amazing talent. I'm going to fight to the death to ensure that young people can access proper academic education in performing arts
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I got loads of boys wanting to to do A level Drama this year because they are musicians and techies. They didn’t realise how much the industry needs their skills. They are often performers in their musical or technical specialisms. Big up for technical pathways in Drama 🎭
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It takes guts for parents to support kids who want creative careers. They are put under so much pressure to make sure they get 'a proper job.' I salute those parents, who are richly rewarded👍❤️
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Something is happening. Quite a few more students asking to move into A level Drama, some to do technical/design pathways and some who want to learn and explore without sitting in rows. We have 70 new starts now on A level Drama. The word is spreading. A level Drama facilitates
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Nottingham Arts Theatre is open its doors to the homeless again tonight from 8 p.m. They will take dogs. Please share 👍
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Whilst Drama A Level numbers are falling ours are growing. We will enter 60 next year. There is a reason. We offer every Artistic A Level and we also offer Trinity Grade 8 with free tuition. We want to support students into Creative Industry careers and it’s working
#ArtsMatter
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The largest A level Drama group in the country have arrived for
#RevengersTragedy
@NottmPlayhouse
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I started a program to support working class students into Drama School years ago. I am very realistic and pretty much get all of the funding issues etc. We now have lots of industry support. Students get free monologue coaching and we get lots in every year. Happy to help 🙋
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I am actually angry about the new focus on oracey. I have been told to correct the speech of young people who can speak and are enjoying speaking. Ideologically, who must they learn to speak like?
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My challenge as a post 16 teacher is to get students to relax, be unafraid of being wrong, think rather than regurgitate: Let them be happy and completely their own original selves and then get them to play and think deeply 💛
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'I'll never be a teacher' said I. Today I finished my 17th year of teaching in this marvellous department that I now manage as a HOF. I'm exhausted but full of love. Every year I get to work with amazingly talented teenagers who go on to do amazing things and I feel good 👍🎭❤️
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I know this is soppy but I really don’t care 🤷♀️ I am very lucky to spend two years with a fabulous ragged bunch of creative teenagers. In two years we form a fabulous dysfunctional community and achieve excellence. Many of us still collaborate and care about each other forever🎭
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I did a completely silent drama lesson today with 45 students for an hour and a half! All based around poor theatre. Just a discussion at the end. No words, just other forms of communication. So focused, productive and spiritual. They loved it !
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If I can’t be trusted to predict grades and record progress accurately after 19 years of teaching then either me or the the twonk who developed the algorithm should be sacked
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This car is that taxi drivers livelihood. I use these taxis all of the time. They are lovely people. That driver can't work to feed his family until he gets a new car. Fun does not involve smashing stuff up Nottingham 😡
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Two Midlands universities have already cut their Dance degrees for next year. Is all Arts training going to me consolidated into a few wealthy conservatoires based in London, after the 50% funding cuts? We need more regional Arts training to make it accessible.
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You can’t beat a a bit of bogger talk to make you smile. We need a whole play in the dialect that only Nottingham actors can perform 😹
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23 years of teaching. My absolute joy has been working with teenager’s. My hell has been sat watching people try to train me whilst delivering a PowerPoint presentation and narrating over it AND often standing in front of it
#CPD
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I am now putting together a very long list of plays, which will very easily be adaptable to rehearsal, partially digitally and socially distanced, which could then be tweaked, if and when we safe to get physically close. Everything is possible 👍
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I have never had a cohort work so hard and so creatively in my career. We all learnt so much and let nothing beat us, together! They will have so much to offer. I love them so much. Congratulations class of 2021 👏👏❤️🎭
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I never say goodbye to my students because so many of them stay in my life. I do want to say ‘farewell’ to my incredible, talented, lovable, inspirational and infuriating Year 13. You were so much fun and produced work that was totally off the scale for A level 🙋♀️💖🎭
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Absolutely delighted that our sixth form college
@BilboroughCol
has been awarded the Gold
@Artsmarkaward
thank you to everyone who has collaborated with us on our journey to make this happen 🎉🎭🎭
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Big cheers to all of the amazing Drama, Dance and Music teachers who are grafting their bums off to support students with showcases, concerts and productions whilst still hacking the day job. Proud to be one of your crew 👏👏👏👏
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This is what we look like when all 140 A level students descend on
@NottmPlayhouse
for a show. Can’t wait to do it again
#LoveTheatreDay
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Said goodbye to my beautiful year 13 today. Their lovely cards have all told stories, but number one is that I’ve taught them to deal with anything. We bloody did it. We did everything on the spec and we did it in style. We filmed 14 play extracts this week 👏❤️
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Oh my word
#RomeoAndJulietFilm
@NationalTheatre
is exquisite. I never believed that anything could top the Luhrmann film, but wow. It’s like ghosts haunting an empty theatre. I need all of my students to see it
@JenChenko
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Just love bucking the trend. We have got 80 fantastic new students enrolled on A Level Drama ready to join the 70 in Year 13
#creativitymatters
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Now met all 71 of our new year 12 Drama A Level students and it was a joy. They are excited and we’ve told them that we will make sure they have the best experience ever. Thursday workshops will be outside and will involve sticks, hoops and lots of madness
#DramaMatters
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55 level drama students Class of 2022! We loved them! Anyone else have that many?
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In a world full of horribleness there are moments of joy. Usually in book shops
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@Andarran
@eusker
@MichaelRosenYes
@BarbaraBleiman
@Runrober
The GCSE’s need a big re-think. The texts are awful (Gove) and the English Language in particular doesn’t prepare students for A level. These subjects should be exciting and develop critical thinking skills
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I have had the most beautiful time teaching teenagers for 23 years. Much of my time has been spent rescuing them from the control of secondary schools and letting them think and breath ❤️🦊
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Just watched the first episode of
#ThisTown
and it is absolutely brilliant. Even more brilliant to see our former student Ben Rose playing one of the leads. I’m not crying much.
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When we send progress grades out we need to re-word it like this ‘Wilfred got a B in his mocks and he is an excellent performer so I am happy to predict an A, however because you are a single parent and live in the inner city, the government thinks he deserves a D’
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I don’t often listen to
#TheArchers
but Emma and Ed’s story is breaking my heart. The desperation in Emma’s voice is totally believable. Her aspirations are so typical of many working class women and I am in awe of Emerald O’Hanrahan’s performance.
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We are really championing the Arts in our college and my faculty. These are just Year 12 groups with classes of up to 21;
Drama -4
Dance -2
Performing Arts -2
Music -1
Music Tech -2
Art -4
Photography-4
English Literature-6
English Language-4
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Something amazing is happening
@NottmPlayhouse
and significant. Two brilliant new plays back to back with local and national significance
#Shebeen
and
#Lava
brilliant writing. I've brought the plays and will use them. This is what
#RegionalTheatre
needs.
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At a time when we are concerned about working class kids accessing Drama School; please look at us. When kids can’t do creative subjects at A level; please look at us. We are here, in Nottingham and our numbers are growing. Stop having meetings! Look at us 👍❤️
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I've been doing this Drama teaching stuff for 17 years now. I love how my students make me cry when they nail it. I only cry in the dark and no one knows 👊
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Any teachers struggling to find texts, which are intrinsically socially distanced should revisit Steven Berkoff. I would be happy to do a zoom thing on a few of his texts and techniques if anyone is interested
#DramaMatters
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@thosethatcan
The Drama GCSE results are bonkers. I’ve taken anyone who wants to to the A Level. How could someone get a 7 in English Lit and History and get a 3 in English Language. Something very perculiar about that!
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Just a bit proud of all of the
#BilboroughTalent
going to Drama School and many of them in careers acting, dancing, directing, writing, making new work, teaching, making music, stage managing, teaching, designing. You can have a career in the arts. We have proof
#ArtsMatter
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Someone please explain why British Education is cutting back on the Arts at the same time that China and the most technically advanced nations are desperately trying to employ teachers to teach creative subjects. Are we just daft?
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Why haven't we got a Drama School in Nottingham? London, Manchester, Birmingham, Bristol, Liverpool, Leicester. This amazing city is waiting 🎭
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Happy Friday teachers. You did it, somehow! Eyes in your backside, love in your hearts. I just want to send a massive virtual hug to all of you who are probably broken tonight and cheers, more than anything, cheers 👏🍷
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I can’t stop teaching, so I’m now teaching my cats theory. This is what Nigel made of Brecht
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Just thinking about the coolest people ever. They are never well behaved, normal, or conventional. So why do we teach kids to be conventional? We need more humans like David Bowie, Joe Strummer, Vivienne Westwood. Celebrate the wild children
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Meghan is absolutely right to speak out. My generation were told not to ‘air your dirty linen in public,’ which is a repulsive euphemism for keeping your gob shut about all sorts of abuse. Never keep your gob shut. Call it out
#ChooseToChallenge
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Tomorrow’s excitement is all about
@NottmPlayhouse
#MadnessOfGeorgeIII
with 140 A level students. We can’t wait. It’s going to be a massive group picture in front of the Sky Mirror 🎭
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I really want to wade in on school uniform. What is wrong with a T shirt and trousers in school colours for any school? What is this obsession with trussing kids up like Turkeys at Christmas? Comfortable relaxed kids learn more. I know this might be unpopular 😹😹😹
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It's that time of year when we Drama teachers and techies are working 14 hour days. Please send love, chocolate and excuse our mad behaviour 👍❤️
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Some arsehole commented on this early photo of Angela Raynor as ‘a chav, smoking a fag’ She is iconic. No-one talks like that about images of Bowie, Camus, Sarte, Beckett, Patti Smith like that. Carry on rolling up £20 notes posh boy. She’s ours
#AngelaRaynor
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Here's the rub! China is desperately recruiting Drama and Dance teachers because they realise that Cultural and Creative education was holding their learners back. We're now eliminating the Arts from our curriculum because we wanted to be like China
#ArtsMatter
👍🤦♀️🎭
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I just opened my soul about domestic violence. Did anyone see this? If I wasted my time I’ll delete this!
I need to talk about ‘one offs’ in domestic violence. I was punched in both eyes, once! I was squeezed until my ribs broke, once! My head was smacked against a wall once and that time I phoned the police. Domestic violence is never a ‘one off’ and once is enough!
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Took 180 students to a live show today. Those kids knew the drill and had an amazing focused experience, but TEACHERS leading, eating bags of sweets. Phones! Please forgive me if I am being a pedantic old bag. No don’t.
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That’s it! Term done. Just a bit proud of myself for managing to keep going with an injury that put me in a wheelchair and on crutches. So grateful to my team and the students who have been pushing me around ❤️
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I am now Head of Faculty for Creative & Performing Arts. Excited to welcome & work with Music, Music Tech, English Lit & Creative Writing.
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Saying goodbye too early to this beautiful lot was gut wrenching. We parted with buckets of love and respect. Enjoy this 🎭
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Very proud of this mob who saw
#AllMySons
@NottmPlayhouse
tonight. Great behaviour from all 138 of them and insightful questions too 👏
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A day in the life of a Drama teacher; 14 plays cast today! The biggest tip that I could offer to any new teacher is to keep reading plays and seeing new work; cast plays to fit the students 👍
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What a week! Met our 80 new ALevel drama students and all of our creative courses are packed. A massive thank you to the teachers and workshop providers who have nurtured them thus far and sent them in our direction. They are amazing. So much talent in one building. Awesome 👏
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Time to get the
#DramaArmy
crew back on the road. We have a fight on our hands. So many schools have marginalised performance subjects. some of us won't give up RT
#DramaArmy
and 👊🎭
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We really want to say a huge thank you to our training and industry friends who are really helping us to get working class Nottingham kids into Drama Schools through their outreach programmes; THANK YOU
@CSSDLondon
@FourthMonkeyTC
@opendoorpeople
@Funky_Studios
@wearenonsuch
❤️🎭
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Sobbed my heart out but in an uplifting way
#TheMadnessofGeorgeIII
@NTLive
@NottmPlayhouse
the place where I learnt to love theatre as a working class kid and I got this as a keepsake
@Markgatiss
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On
@BBCRadio4
the Culture Secretary described the creative industries as an ‘economic powerhouse’ and that the creative industries are desperately looking for young people to pursue those careers. Why then aren’t we promoting creative subjects in education?
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