Your reports Find reports How would theatre makers like to be trained? How would theatre makers like to be trained? Convener(s): Nick Wood Participants: Jennifer, Ros, Michael, Alyn, Catherine, Jen, David, Denise Please add your names Summary of discussion, conclusions and/or recommendations: In discussion the following recommendations were made for theatre training: Environment in which possible to move at your own pace Be able to change direction when I wanted Be exposed to ideas Be exposed to other disciplines Learn to do it my way Feel I’ve made choices, have ownership over training choices Ability to be influenced by a large collective and work through ideas with other people Good one-to-one tutors advising you, drawing you out, not telling you what to do Meet people with life-time’s dedication – inspiring in their discipline Ability for teachers to learn from their students Learn to be pro-active, make a living Recognition that you’ll be going in to a business environment Learn that theatre can happen in more places than theatres Learn where you are going to take your skills A good course would create a lot of needs … leading to self-sufficiency Mix time in School with time in practice (EG one year training, then five years practice, then two years training) Learn that you never stop training Learn to be self-motivated Placements – do a walk on role as part of your training Be in front of an audience Be protected Learn to make transition from protected world to being vulnerable in front of a whole load of people Personal growth Business skills need to be taught Less of a culture that the business world is not for them Learn to take theatre in to the corporate world Learn to stop running away – build a symbiotic relationship with corporate world Learn to engage with corporate world Learn methods of evaluation from corporate world Train for more than one thing Promote the right degree of expectation – not too high, not too low. It’s work, it’s straightforward Learning to be an artist rather than director, lighting designer etc. A course for theatre-makers (covering all disciplines) Training which doesn’t hamper you by defining what you do too tightly Training which prepares to go on training yourself Even more freedom, tutors saying they’re sharing their knowledge – not telling you what to do or how to do it It’s about being in an environment with a whole lot of people doing something every day for three years Leave with a peer group, not isolated Company that graduates can go straight in to Today feels like being at drama school again, feels safe like being at college again