It’s the Spring Term and there are some exciting opportunities at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre to support Drama Teacher’s subject knowledge and classroom practice. Below are some upcoming opportunities and we look forward to welcoming you at the Lyric soon.
Priority for our free teacher workshops are given to teachers from state schools in West London and places fill up quickly – for more information, please email natalie.jim@lyric.co.uk
Free Drama Teacher CPD – Introducing Set and Costume Design to Students
We have partnered up with Lucy Alger former Course Leader of the BA Theatre Design course at Wimbledon College of Arts, to run a series of 2 hour workshops for teachers of drama with the aim of supporting the introduction of set and costume design. Full details of the session and the dates are below. The sessions will take place here at the Lyric and if you like to book your place please fill out the Google form below. Priority is given to schools that are based in the West London Boroughs of:
- Monday 9th March, 4pm-6pm Introduction to Set Design
Join Lucy Algar (performance designer and educator) for a 2-hour workshop on how to encourage and enable your students to generate, select and articulate set design ideas. We will talk about the terminology used and the ways in which students can describe their ideas as well as trying out some practical workshop ideas. We will create small-scale models and use them to facilitate discussion of theatre language, such as scale, depth, upstage, downstage. Time will be left for Q&A. Please come prepared to draw and discuss ideas.
- Monday 16th March, 4pm-6pm Costume and Character workshop
This workshop, led by Lucy Algar, will cover everything related to designing costumes for performance. We will look at processes which enable students to draw ideas about period, costume and personality from a text to build a character and then delve into practical drawing and collage processes. We will also discuss ways in which students can describe costume ideas when they cannot show their designs visually and explore some confidence building drawing methods. Please come prepared to draw and discuss ideas.
A variety of books will be available at the workshops for participants to read and to support the topics we will discuss.
Both workshops will use The Threepenny Opera as the core text.
To book your place fill out this booking form: https://forms.gle/vuqXniKK2WTTcvxM9
GCSE Coursework Moderation Afternoon
You are very welcome to join us on Monday 23rd February for our GCSE coursework moderation afternoon. If you are a drama teacher in a one person department and would like the opportunity to meet up with other teachers to support the marking and moderation of coursework please fill out the Google form below. You will be placed with teachers from the same exam board and can use the time to discuss and mark together in an informal setting with pizza and a drink. The session will be at the Lyric Hammersmith Theatre and will be from 4pm-6pm.
Booking form: https://forms.gle/HJMDey2igXcJwqCz5