Destructive Drama Schools & The Importance of Speaking Up with Actor and Coach Stacia Keogh

So one of my jobs as an artist-in-residence in schools and arts theaters and places like that was getting naughty kids out of corners.

Mm.

Really allowing them to realize that what they were doing was just as valid, and th- they c- what they, they had something that they could contribute, and giving them the tools to communicate that contribution.

Communication is not just speaking.

It's movement, it's, it's thought, it's putting things together, it's working together with people, it's experiential.

There's so many different learning styles out there.

Mm.

Um, my own kids are like everybody's different.

My son is very much of a visual learner.

He's the kinda kid that can look at a technical manual and do it.

[laughs]

Oh, God.

Yeah.

You know? I remember when we took them to, like it's just been half term at the time we're recording this, and we went to some workshop, and they were doing origami, and the person presenting really didn't know what, but she had a handbook there.

Mm.

And she, people were saying, "How do you do this?" Or, "How do you do that?" And she's like, "Just a second." [laughs]

Yeah.

And then my son said, "Can I see that book?" And then he-

Mm

... looked at it and went, like Edward Scissorhands.

[laughs]

Oh, yeah.

And then everybody kept going, "Can you do this one? Can you help me?" [laughs] And he was able to do it.

And my daughter is an audio learner.

So-