Theatre Education – Education through Theatre

Proposals for the development of a background structure in Hungary

Abstract

The subject of my work is theatre education, its forms and possible structures in the coming period, and my ideas on how to achieve this. In the context of my attachment to the theatre, I would like to contribute, at least in part, to the considerations on possible strategies. For that, I looked at the work of the TIE (Theatre in Education) groups, which operate as a system in the UK with local government funding, and which use theatre as an educational tool, in the form of performances, and also through the use of theatrical procedures and techniques. In Hungary, too, it would be necessary to introduce such forms of performance or drama workshops linked to performances, not just on a one-off, occasional basis, but in an organised form, with a wider scope, and above all age-specifically, since the creation of an understanding audience for future theatre art must be established at an early age.