Top Reasons Why Everyone Should Study Drama

1. It will increase your self-esteem and confidence.
2. You will learn the skills of listening, negotiating and communicating.
3. It will expand your cultural awareness. You will tour through a rich history of traditions and cultures. You will begin to know and appreciate that which is culturally and historically valuable.
4. You will learn empathy and identification. Drama opens up new dimensions of emotional experiences. By observing other people’s creative processes and products, it can assist you in accessing emotions, along with understanding different ways of interpreting and understanding information. In drama we express ideas, observations and feelings by making choices about roles and/or characters
5. It will increase your ability to think; creatively, imaginatively and divergently. You will learn how to think outside the square. Drama teaches students how to become critical consumers, rather than just passive viewers. Students are expected to question and critique their own and others’ processes and products.
6. You will develop higher order thinking skills. We can often be limited by our own attitudes and beliefs. Drama requires us to view things from multiple perspectives, inviting us to share control of a narrative between different players. This automatically widens our perspectives, allowing us to synthesise and evaluate information at a much higher level.
7. You will learn how to be creative. “Creativity, is an acquired behaviour – learnable, teachable, tangible and crucial to human development”
8. You will express your creativity in a variety of ways. In drama there is no right or wrong, creative play is encouraged and mistakes are often happy accidents. “Creative people do things. They make. They assemble. They put together.
9. You will learn how to work in a team effectively. Drama is full of games, or rather complex group dynamics and team building exercises (games sound more fun). Learning how to work collaboratively is a precious and important skill. Drama helps you learn how to let go of what you want to say and respond to others’ viewpoints or actions in a safe and fun environment.

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