Critical pedagogies and the theatre laboratory

This dialogue contributes reflections on the 'theatre laboratory' to the scholarly debate surrounding methodologies of drama education and applied performance. The co-authors suggest that the experimental and ensemble-led approach of the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, founded at Trinity Colleg...

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Published in:	Research in drama education 2017-04, Vol.22 (2), p.282-287
Main Authors:	Heron, Jonathan, Johnson, Nicholas
Format:	Article
Language:	eng
Subjects:	1900-1999 applied theatre Beckett, Samuel Beckett, Samuel (1906-1989) British & Irish literature Critical pedagogy Critical Theory Cultural Capital Discourse Communities discussion Drama Dramatics Education Educational Practices ensemble-led Feedback French literature Irish literature Laboratories pedagogical approach Pedagogy Periodicals Production Techniques Samuel Beckett Samuel Beckett Laboratory Teaching Methods Theater Theater Arts Theaters theatre laboratory theatrical production
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Summary:	This dialogue contributes reflections on the 'theatre laboratory' to the scholarly debate surrounding methodologies of drama education and applied performance. The co-authors suggest that the experimental and ensemble-led approach of the Samuel Beckett Laboratory, founded at Trinity College Dublin in 2013 as a space for research into Beckett in performance, may offer one response to a question that Kathleen Gallagher proposes in the twentieth Anniversary issue of RiDE (20.3), concerning 'how drama educators might incorporate such practices of hope into their pedagogy' [2015. "Beckoning Hope and Care." RIDE: The Journal of Applied Theatre and Drama Education 20 (3): 423]. This work suggests that the hopeful practice of laboratory exploration de-hierarchises a scholarly endeavour and recasts the student as co-creator of knowledge, rather than consumer of cultural capital. The values and practices of such a laboratory may open one avenue of participatory pedagogy that scaffolds risk and re-values failure. In the dialogue that follows, we draw on Gallagher's 'practices of hope' to develop our own interests in the subjunctivity of performance pedagogies in Beckettian contexts [cf. Heron, J., N. Johnson, B. Dinçel, G. Quinn, S. J. Scaife, and Á. Tyrrell, 2014. "The Samuel Beckett Laboratory 2013." Journal of Beckett Studies 23 (1): 73-94].
ISSN:	1356-9783 1470-112X