Learning on ScreenOpening the Window on Shakespeare’s Biggest Classroom
The RSC is now working with the University of the First Age to develop a Young Researchers’ group made up of young people from participating schools across the UK. They will be trained in research methods and will inform the future development of the Schools’ Broadcasts, starting with Henry V.
For Ravensbourne students Jon and Sean the collaboration has provided a direct entry into postgraduate employment: they have recently been employed by the RSC to create a microsite to support the RSC’s 2016 production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream/Play for a Nation, with a cast of fourteen amateur theatre companies and 580 fairies from schools around the UK. They are in the process of creating a web-based platform to enable the rehearsal process to be streamed live from the RSC’s rehearsal rooms in Stratford Upon Avon to participating groups.
The RSC/Ravensbourne collaboration continues to be truly innovative – enabling the RSC to constantly refine and develop the way in which it connects to schools’ audiences, whilst also developing new technology that has opened up the possibilities for the way in which the company rehearses and produced new work in collaboration with key partners around the country.
Taryn Storey, Higher Education Programme Developer, Royal Shakespeare Company.
© Jamie Morris / Ravensbourne College
Footnotes
[i] Richard II Schools’ Broadcast (2013), RSC Education Research, Stratford Upon Avon: unpublished.
[ii] CFE Research (2014), Forging Futures: Building Higher level Skills through University and Employer Collaboration. London: Universities UK, p.8. (http://www.universitiesuk.ac.uk/highereducation/Documents/2014/ForgingFutures.pdf, accessed online 7 August 2015.
[iii] Comunian, T., & Gilmore, A., (2015), Beyond the Creative Campus: Reflections of the evolving relationship between higher education and the creative economy, London: King’s College, p.7. London.https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/38977024/Beyond_the_Creative_Campus_Comunian_Gilmore_2015.pdf, accessed online 7 August 2015.
[iv] ibid
[v] ibid
[vi] O’Hanlon, J., RSC Director of Education
[vii] Morris, J., (2015), Shakespeare’s Biggest Classroom And The Future of Heritage Online , unpublished paper, p.6.
[viii] Ibid p.11
[ix] Unnamed Teacher, (2013), Richard II Schools’ Broadcast, op cit..
[x] O’Hanlon, J., RSC Director of Education.
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Comunian, T., & Gilmore, A., (2015), Beyond the Creative Campus: Reflections of the evolving relationship between higher education and the creative economy, London: King’s College, p.7. London.https://kclpure.kcl.ac.uk/portal/files/38977024/Beyond_the_Creative_Campus_Comunian_Gilmore_2015.pdf, accessed online 7 August 2015.
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