Workshops for Schools
Calling all secondary-school Drama and Language teachers!
Are you looking for exciting activities for your students to appreciate Drama and Modern Foreign Languages?
Are you looking for ways to diversify your curriculum?
Are your students eager to explore global stories that they can connect to?
Performing International Plays has partnered up with Foreign Affairs theatre company to deliver in-person enrichment drama and language workshops using international plays to learn about local cultures and histories that concern everyone on our planet.
Your students will encounter one or more new plays by exciting contemporary dramatists from Ukraine, Palestine, Cuba, Taiwan, South Africa, Italy, Germany, France and more.
Our workshops are facilitated by highly skilled multilingual practitioners of relevant heritage and are especially tailored to your students and your needs. Our team can travel to most places in England and Wales.
To discuss your ideas, get in touch with the project lead, Dr Margherita Laera, at: piponlineresource@gmail.com
Drama & Languages Workshop Options
2-hour, 3-hour, 1-day, and week-long residency options available
All levels, from Y7 to Y13, and mixed-ability groups
1. International Play Workshop (Drama):
For Drama students keen to be inspired by stories and characters outside the English-speaking world. A hands-on combination of practical exercises, devising tasks and discussions, based on an international play of your choice. No foreign language skills required.
2. International Play Workshop (Drama & MFL):
For Mixed Drama & MFL students with different abilities. Acquire cultural competences, practice spoken registers and learn devising techniques by empathising with characters living in cultural and historical contexts other than the UK. Based on an international play of your choice.
3. Theatre Translation Workshop:
For MFL students of Arabic, French, Mandarin, Spanish and Ukrainian Russian, or mixed-ability groups. Test your creative language skills by translating or adapting an international play into English, or an English-language play into another language.
We are open for new bookings. Get in touch to discuss your ideas!
piponlineresource@gmail.com
Testimonials
“Performing International Plays has been a wonderful resource for our students to explore new diverse texts. We have found plays such as Fireworks by Dalia Taha to be great stimuli for Devised work at GCSE, enhancing our existing schemes of work. We have also used PIP to assist in delivering a weekly club for students exploring diverse new contemporary and international plays. Scripts could be useful for scripted NEAs too. Through PIP we have been able to connect with more students and offer new meaningful opportunities for script work. Students have been really inspired to watch and perform scripts from their own cultural heritage and languages. We are now hoping to connect with our MFL colleagues on an interdisciplinary project using PIP as our inspiration.
We were delighted to welcome PIP to our school recently as part of our artist-in-residence week. GCSE students had the opportunity to workshop ideas around the themes of A Fable for Now by Wei Yu-Chia and create their own self devised pieces. This opportunity was also a rich source of inspiration for their NEA Devised Pieces later in the year. A fantastic resource that supports busy teachers to experience new diverse scripts. Thank you PIP team!”
– Holly Whymark, Head of Drama, St. Albans High School for Girls
“The openness and creative freedom brought to the workshop by the facilitation team was fantastic.”
– Foreign Affairs workshop participant
Foreign Affairs is a micro theatre company with an adventurous spirit, run by the creative duo Camila França and Trine Garrett. Their work focuses on theatre in translation, intercultural exchange and collaboration, and performance in unconventional spaces. Or, in other words – they bring theatre from around the world to local communities. Foreign Affairs also run workshops and training programmes for emerging theatre-makers and translators, and local young people, including the Theatre Translator Mentorship (unique in the industry) and Emerging Theatre-Makers activities.