http://www.unfinishedhistories.com Recording the history of Alternative Theatre Fri, 04 Mar 2011 01:46:14 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/interviews/interviewees/tony-coult/comment-page-1/#comment-2 Drama and education: how drama can realize participatory and engaged learning – part 2 | Applied Drama Fri, 24 Dec 2010 11:30:55 +0000 http://www.unfinishedhistories.com/?page_id=1067#comment-2 [...] Tony Coult from Rivercross brought Edward Bond to my attention. Tony is a famous applied drama practitioner with an impressive CV. Rivercross is one of his current projects, where he works on an original TV soap-drama series devised and created by young people with mental health issues, hospitalized in sometimes emergency situations in a hospital here in London. Edward Bond is a rather controversial theatre play writer, who always emphasizes the importance of drama and imagination. Our sence of justice, according to Bond, comes from our imagination, since imagination is our ability to create. He takes it a step further when he states that to imagine something new is the essential evolutionary tool of human beings. Drama to Bond, and the use of our imagination in particular, is at the centre of everything we do. Tony paraphrased this importance of imagination in learning in his memo to us, “The way we learn is by reaching up to what we don’t know, what we don’t understand, what we find difficult, or sometimes scary. In that effort, we inevitably have to engage the Imagination, that evolutionary tool at the heart of being human.” [...] [...] Tony Coult from Rivercross brought Edward Bond to my attention. Tony is a famous applied drama practitioner with an impressive CV. Rivercross is one of his current projects, where he works on an original TV soap-drama series devised and created by young people with mental health issues, hospitalized in sometimes emergency situations in a hospital here in London. Edward Bond is a rather controversial theatre play writer, who always emphasizes the importance of drama and imagination. Our sence of justice, according to Bond, comes from our imagination, since imagination is our ability to create. He takes it a step further when he states that to imagine something new is the essential evolutionary tool of human beings. Drama to Bond, and the use of our imagination in particular, is at the centre of everything we do. Tony paraphrased this importance of imagination in learning in his memo to us, “The way we learn is by reaching up to what we don’t know, what we don’t understand, what we find difficult, or sometimes scary. In that effort, we inevitably have to engage the Imagination, that evolutionary tool at the heart of being human.” [...]

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