Royal Central School of Speech and Drama

About: Royal Central School of Speech and Drama is a education organization based out in London, United Kingdom. It is known for research contribution in the topics: Political theatre & Queer. The organization has 57 authors who have published 94 publications receiving 332 citations. The organization is also known as: CSSD & The Central School of Speech Training and Dramatic Art.

Dance History and Digital Humanities Meet at the Archives: An Interim Project Report on Dunham's Data

Abstract: This interim project report addresses the ongoing work of Dunham's Data: Katherine Dunham and Digital Methods for Dance Historical Inquiry. The project centres choreographer Katherine Dunham's tran...

The Stanislavski system: ubiquitous yet fragmented

Abstract: The Stanislavski “system” is rarely taught as a system, rather it is broken up into fragments. This paper explores Stanislavski’s overall aim for the actor: “experiencing” or “remaining alive” on stage, which is recognized by many practitioners as a common goal. It identifies the misconception among practitioners, that by learning fragments, the actor is learning the “system.” The pedagogy of Stanislavski is often embedded in the teacher or trainer – even if they are unaware of it.

The potential of radical kindness as a methodology in applied theatre in arts and health

Abstract: This article outlines an ongoing collaborative partnership between Positively UK and practitioner researchers and artists in the United Kingdom. In the article I issue a rallying call for the field of applied theatre to engage with radical kindness as a methodology. Drawing on practice-based collaborative partnerships which began in 2016, I consider the potential of taking a radically kind approach to the practice and offer examples of quiet advocacy in which the quotidian and the mundanity of everyday life can be appreciated as both ordinary and extraordinary. The practice theorised here is underpinned by an understanding of the space in which health is viewed and discussed as stigmatised and embodying a legacy of a particular gaze, especially relevant to the field of sexual and reproductive health. The applied theatre site, therefore, can function as a place of exploration where radically kind spaces are held for the co-participants to use.

Listening at the edge: Attending to living process in Sesame Dramatherapy:

Abstract: This essay will outline some of the means and implications of attending to living processes in Sesame Dramatherapy. Broadly defined, living processes are those which exceed rigid, reductive, fixed or thing-like concepts. Insofar as our more mobile concepts often collapse into fixed definitions or signs, we might say that living processes resist conceptualisation altogether. I will consider how to avoid objectifying living processes which, as a category, encompass psychic processes and our experiences of other people and living beings. I will investigate how it is possible to enter into an ‘I-Thou’ relationship with the diverse phenomena of Sesame Dramatherapy sessions, stepping out of ‘I-it’, objectifying ways of relating. In order to do this, I will draw upon three main philosophical streams: Goethean observation, phenomenology and Eugene Gendlin’s Philosophy of the Implicit. Some of the therapeutic implications of this will then be outlined, with particular reference to the creation of meaning and the e...