Welsh School Play guidelines

[Bob S.]

There is an uproar about a proposed new set of guidelines that seem to suggest that lip kissing in school plays should be abated.

Simply Googling "Welsh School Plays" will give you a lot of pages but I am showing you one.

The Daily Mail (UK) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=377437&in_page_id=1766&in_a_source=&ito=1490) gives the suggetsed guidelines:

Drama teachers need to consider carefully what gestures and movements are appropriate to communicate the emotion or idea required in the play or improvisation and what gestures and movements are acceptable.

For example, many learners are uncomfortable with kissing in performance because of the physical intimacy that it entails, whatever the motivation of the characters or genre of the performance.

In most cases, a peck on the cheek or an embrace can communicate the required emotion.

These gestures show affection in an acceptable and obvious way.

Teachers must never insist that any child or young person should kiss another. allow for intimate physical contact between actors.

Now these guidelines come from a school director who was accused of abusing his students by having them perfrom a nude dance for him. He has killed himself.

Bob S.

[Bob S.]

There is an uproar about a proposed new set of guidelines that seem to suggest that lip kissing in school plays should be abated.

Simply Googling "Welsh School Plays" will give you a lot of pages but I am showing you one.

The Daily Mail (UK) (http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=377437&in_page_id=1766&in_a_source=&ito=1490) gives the suggetsed guidelines:

Drama teachers need to consider carefully what gestures and movements are appropriate to communicate the emotion or idea required in the play or improvisation and what gestures and movements are acceptable.

For example, many learners are uncomfortable with kissing in performance because of the physical intimacy that it entails, whatever the motivation of the characters or genre of the performance.

In most cases, a peck on the cheek or an embrace can communicate the required emotion.

These gestures show affection in an acceptable and obvious way.

Teachers must never insist that any child or young person should kiss another. allow for intimate physical contact between actors.

Now these guidelines come from a school director who was accused of abusing his students by having them perfrom a nude dance for him. He has killed himself.

Bob S.