: training

secondary schools

Calling all secondary-school teachers!

Are you looking for ways to diversify your curriculum?

Are your students eager to explore global stories that matter here and now?

Performing International Plays and Foreign Affairs have partnered up to deliver drama and language workshops using international plays to learn about local cultures and histories that concern everyone.

Your students will encounter one or more new plays by exciting contemporary dramatists from Ukraine, Palestine, Cuba, Taiwan, South Africa and France.

Our workshops are facilitated by highly skilled multilingual practitioners of relevant heritage and are especially tailored to your students and your needs.

workshops

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.

pip & fa

Performing International Plays is a free platform of teaching and learning resources about international plays for secondary school teachers and pupils, featuring videos, interviews, essays and suggested classroom activities.

Our selection of 20 plays, carefully picked for young people, highlight some of the most pressing global issues of our times, such as the war in the Middle East, colonial histories, racial and religious prejudice, totalitarian regimes, gender identity and climate change. Written in 16 languages by a diverse selection of contemporary writers, these urgent dramas allow students to explore culture, politics, geography, history and languages through theatre.

Foreign Affairs is a micro theatre company with an adventurous spirit, run by the creative duo Camila França and Trine Garrett. Our work focuses on theatre in translation, intercultural exchange and collaboration, and performance in unconventional spaces. Or, in other words – we bring theatre from around the world to local communities.

We 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.