--- title: Useful Links for Drama Teachers --- ![Trinity College London - purple logo](https://resources.trinitycollege.com/hubfs/Drama%202020%20Resource/Trinity%20College%20London%20-%20purple%20logo.svg) ** ** ** ** # USEFUL LINKS FOR DRAMA TEACHERS Here are a range of online resources you may find useful when teaching drama remotely: ### **Access scripts online** [**Drama Online**](https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/) has as vast range of material from both new and classic playwrights.  Playtexts are available to academic institutions on request **free** until the end of May 2020. [**BBC Writers Room**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/writersroom/scripts) provides a script library of BBC TV drama scripts to read and download. **[Playshare ](http://www.youththeatre.ie/resources/find-a-play/)**is curated collection of plays or varying lengths and styles, suitable for youth theatre/school groups (made available through Youth Theatre Ireland). [**New Play Exchange**](https://newplayexchange.org/) is the world's largest digital library of scripts by living writers.  A ‘Reader’ profile to download and read scripts costs $10 per year. ### **Watch Theatre Online** [**National Theatre Live**](https://www.nationaltheatre.org.uk/learning/national-theatre-collection) has a number of National Theatre productions available **free** to state funded schools and 6th forms and now to students at home. School needs to register and then can share log in details.  [**National Theatre youtube** channel](https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalTheatre) is making one of their plays available every Thursday during the lockdown period in the UK.  [**Digital Theatre+**](https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education) has a library of high profile international productions, theory and criticisms and teaching toolkits.  You can access content by subscription or a one-off rental. [**Marquee TV**](https://www.marquee.tv/) has a library of high profile live productions of dance, opera and theatre (including RSC, Royal Opera House, Donmar). [**BBC Culture in Quarantine**](https://www.bbc.co.uk/arts) is a curated page of arts content from the BBC with content to watch and listen to and activity suggestions. [The Show Must Go Online](https://robmyles.co.uk/theshowmustgoonline/) Actor[Robert Myles ](https://robmyles.co.uk/)has set up a reading group for professional and amateur actors to perform Shakespeare’s complete plays in the order they’re believed to have been written.  A full performance of [***Girls Like That*** by Evan Placey](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cx2KDNusk9E) can be seen on youtube.  It was performed by a company of professional and ex-prisoner actors and toured across London schools and prisons in October and the Unicorn Theatre in November 2014.  The play was written for a teenage audience and explores gender equality and the pressures on today’s digital generation.  It won Best Play for Young Audiences at the**[** Writers Guild Award**](http://writersguild.org.uk/writers-guild-awards-winners-announced/) **2015. ### **Teaching Resources** [**National Theatre Youtube Channel** ](https://www.youtube.com/user/NationalTheatre)includes behind the scenes content from their productions and tips for aspiring performers and theatre makers including films on "how we made it" and "how you can make it”. [**BBC Bitesize Drama **](https://www.bbc.co.uk/bitesize/subjects/zk6pyrd)includes resources specifically geared towards drama teaching in the UK curriculum. **[Early Modern Theatre](http://earlymoderntheatre.co.uk/) **provides a range of productions and resources from the University of York.  [**Burt's Drama** ](https://burtsdrama.com/2020/03/18/teaching-drama-remotely/)provides a range of drama teaching resources including advice and tips on how to teach Drama remotely from Keith Burt. [**Beat By Beat Press**](http://www.bbbpress.com/teaching-drama-online/) (USA) includes a range of free and paid for resources, schemes of work and ideas for remote teaching. [**National Drama**](https://www.nationaldrama.org.uk/) have produced a range of resources for lockdown. ![image (1)](https://cdn2.hubspot.net/hubfs/2896838/image%20(1).png) ** ** ** [Terms of use](https://www.trinitycollege.com/terms) [Privacy Statament](https://www.trinitycollege.com/privacy) © 2023 Trinity College London