Getting started
Facilitators and educators will find a step by step approach to delivering a theatre criticism programme to their group, everything from preparing them for the theatre experience to creating their own reviews.
General Theatre
Wikipedia: Theatre
Encyclopaedia Britannica: Theatre
Drama Online Library
Behind the Scenes
TheatreTrust.org: Who works in a theatre?
RSC: How we Make Theatre
National Theatre Live: behind the scenes
Further Reading
Fischer- Lichte, Erika. The Routledge Introduction to Theatre and Performance Studies. London: Routledge, 2014
Leach, Robert: Theatre Studies: The Basics
Facilitators and educators will find a step by step approach to delivering a theatre criticism programme to their group, everything from preparing them for the theatre experience to creating their own reviews.
These videos introduce the Young Critics Programme and you can also find out about the benefits of participation for young people.
This section will help you find out more about your group’s interests and attitudes to theatre while facilitating them in voicing their own views.
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