Innovative approach to language learning
Whatever their language level and whatever their experience of drama, remote theatre helps students share who they are, and to tell their stories in English. The process of learning and using spoken and written English becomes natural, authentic, motivating and highly memorable.
Facilitating meaningful intercultural communication
Watching and discussing live plays, created and performed by learners of English in another corner of the world leads to intercultural dialogue and understanding. It helps us to appreciate the realities of others who share our planet. It means that their stories may become our stories.
A brand-new creative art form
Art always flourishes when people are constrained by their environment. How do you act when the stage is a box on a computer screen, and when the audience is in other tiny boxes around the world? Remote theatre pushes the boundaries of theatrical performance and the results can be empowering, liberating and extremely moving.
“Remote theatre is an exciting new genre of theatre that is being used to help learners of English to rehearse and eventually perform plays that they have created themselves to audiences around the world. It provides an opportunity for young people who have probably never even met anyone from another country to be heard and understood outside their immediate environment, enabling them to find a space where they can practice English, interact spontaneously, and share something of who they are and what they want to say in an interesting and very motivating context.”
From “A Framework for Remote Theatre” by Haneen Jadalla (IATEFL Voices November 2020)
Project details.
Remote Theatre is co-funded through Erasmus+ KA2 grant.
Project category: innovation development through transnational cooperation
Project aim: development and implementation of Remote Theatre methodology in language learning
Project no: 2020-1-RO01-KA204-080056
The goal of this project, coordinated by International House Bucharest, is to gather and analyze relevant information based on the previous experience and implementation, and give it a structured form.
