Drama Tuesday - Drama Teaching in action in the Media
/Part of my ongoing quest is to find examples of drama teaching happening – in novels, stories, television and films. In Generazione 56K – a show on Netflix produced in Italy – one of the secondary characters runs a drama group for underprivileged young people. We see scenes of him working with them on a production of Midsummer Night’s Dream. There are scenes of warming up with vocal exercises; behind the scenes teen romance between actors playing Titania and Bottom; and, the obnoxiously sweet kid whose answer to everything is to give the finger. and the production that we see scenes from sends the audience into polite slumbers.
Yes, its’ a secondary story and likely to be of interest in passing. But it’s yet another example of contemporary interest in drama teaching.
