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Design Shapes & Spaces
This "Design Shapes & Spaces" unit is designed to explore scenography as a crucial element of theatre, empowering students to understand its role in shaping storytelling. It directly aligns with the DP Theatre course, particularly the PP and STP. The unit introduces the concept of scenography as a collaborator, and practically explores shape, space, light, and objects. Students engage in hands-on activities, developing knowledge, skills, and conceptual understanding of theatr
Kieran Burgess
Oct 13, 20255 min read


Expressing Visual Design Ideas
This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This mini-unit introduces students to an awareness of which production elements can be expressed visually, which formats work best, and some advice for producing clear images. This unit will show that even the 'worst' artists can still communicate clearly with quality visuals, ensuring success in DP Theatre Production Proposal.
Kieran Burgess
Sep 29, 20255 min read


Theatre, Culture & Ritual
This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This introductory unit aims to develop students’ cross-cultural theatre-making abilities. By inquiring into different cultures and applying the artefacts from one culture into a piece of theatre from another, students are able to bring new focuses and perspectives to work they create through group inquiry, exploration and application to text or a starting point for devising.
Kieran Burgess
Sep 22, 20255 min read


Free Will Fakery: An introduction to Immersive Theatre
This free resource is one of a series of units, guidebooks and lesson plans for teachers of Theatre. This mini-unit introduces students to some key elements and terms in immersive theatre. Students will encounter organic opportunities to explore design (particularly set design), devising and research skills, and play texts or extracts could easily be slotted in too.
Kieran Burgess
Sep 8, 20255 min read
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