...I am a [wo]man of wealth and taste'
At least, my abundance of the latter makes up for any lack of the former...
This will be my second blog - you can find my first here. The thinking behind this blog was to reflect on my experiences during my MA: Drama and Theatre Education at The University of Warwick.
For the past year I have been Practitioner in Residence at Shakespeare's Globe. However, over the next month I will be making the transition to freelance practitioner, still very much involved with the Globe, but also expanding my as an education practitioner and arts edministrator on various other projects, with the eventual aim of beginning a PhD in the near future.
So it seemed like a good time to start blogging again, about my journey into the great freelance unknown.
The first thing I want to talk about is the title of this blog. 'Moments of Guffaw' is TIE scholar John O'Toole's wonderful phrase - suggesting an alternative to Dorothy Heathcote's much-cited 'Moments of awe' - her phrase for describing the moment of realisation and/or discovery that can occur through TiE.
While accepting Heathcote is the mother of nearly all theatre arts in education, I love O'Toole's phrase. What he does is take us away from the solemn, the balefully dramatic and epic sphere to the place of the sudden and joyful discovery, the moment of lightness, or realisation and with it the explosion of laughter.
That is what I'm all about: play's place in theatre and its place in learning. I have to date written two dissertations and planned countless workshops around this idea, and it still constantly fascinates and frustrates me.
