{"id":49208,"date":"2018-02-06T10:02:42","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T15:02:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/?p=49208"},"modified":"2024-09-01T09:56:07","modified_gmt":"2024-09-01T13:56:07","slug":"fricker-five-ways-to-fix-canadas-theatre-schools","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2018\/02\/fricker-five-ways-to-fix-canadas-theatre-schools\/","title":{"rendered":"FRICKER: Five ways to fix Canada&#8217;s theatre schools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic Arts Professor Karen Fricker wrote a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/2018\/02\/03\/five-ways-to-fix-canadas-theatre-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">column for the <em>Toronto Star\u00a0<\/em>recently<\/a>\u00a0where she had five theatre school instructors offer up their solutions to help make the learning environment, and professional theatres, a safer space for young actors.<\/p>\n<p>Fricker writes:<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>What counts as best practice in Canadian theatre training? Alisa Palmer, an artistic director at the National Theatre School in Montreal \u2014 the country\u2019s flagship theatre academy \u2014 points to \u201cagency and independence\u201d as a core ingredient of its approach to actor training. The NTS \u201csupports young artists-in-training to be in charge of themselves so they can identify and contribute to a safe working environment, and by this I mean an environment where it is safe to tackle challenging material, to dig deep and aim high, and to take creative risks,\u201d says Palmer.<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: small;\"><i>We put the question to five other professionals in the field: What needs to happen to improve actor training in Canada?<\/i><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Continue reading the full article <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestar.com\/entertainment\/stage\/2018\/02\/03\/five-ways-to-fix-canadas-theatre-schools.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dramatic Arts Professor Karen Fricker wrote a column for the Toronto Star\u00a0recently\u00a0where she had five theatre school instructors offer up their solutions to help make the learning environment, and professional theatres, a safer space for young actors.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":18,"featured_media":46152,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[37,6],"tags":[6260,109,3166,46],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/18"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49208"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49209,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49208\/revisions\/49209"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46152"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49208"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49208"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49208"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}