A day in the life of… Michael Volpe
Michael Volpe is the director of Opera Holland Park but his background is unusual. He spoke to Susan Elkin Tell me about...
Michael Volpe is the director of Opera Holland Park but his background is unusual. He spoke to Susan Elkin Tell me about...
Poor SATS results putting pressure on a headteacher’s job… a new play examines the issues and Susan Elkin meets the playwright. Plays...
Children don’t read enough. They have too little experience of story – through books, theatre or whatever. It leads to diminished imaginative...
Annus horribilis it may have been but 2016 has been a good year for youth theatre. There’s been some interesting work by...
It was what he carefully calls the “literature of theatre” that triggered George Peck’s lifelong commitment to drama. Speaking with characteristic, reasoned...
Stage schools are often unfairly stereotyped by the media and teaching unions as places where the spoiled brats of pushy parents receive...
Last week I went to TheatreCraft 2016, the eleventh annual “beyond the stage” careers event which routinely attracts over 1000 people, most...
The New Oxford Shakespeare the Complete Works has just arrived and it has set me reminiscing. My only other complete works is...