Blackbox Education

THE POWER OF DRAMA - FREE POSTER SET

Ignite your drama space with a free, ready-to-print poster set from Blackbox Education. Inside you’ll find 12 vibrant, student-friendly posters that celebrate the skills theatre builds: confidence, collaboration, creativity, empathy, and more.

Create an eye-catching classroom display, spark discussion during lessons, and showcase the impact of drama at parent evenings and open days. It’s been designed to inspire, quick to use, and completely free.

Download Link: https://www.blackbox.education/the-power-of-drama-poster-set

Our Costume Design Toolkit is FINALLY Here!

Transform the way your students explore theatre costume with Black Box’s Costume Design Toolkit. This toolkit is a comprehensive, flexible, and inspiring resource designed to ignite creativity, build technical skills, and prepare students to excel in their coursework and assessments.

What’s Inside?

Packed with over 100+ high-quality resources, this toolkit provides everything drama teachers need to deliver engaging lessons in costume design. Whether you’re supporting GCSE and A-level students pursuing design pathways or introducing costume concepts to a wider class, the toolkit balances theory with practical application and imaginative exploration.

For more details, please visit: https://www.blackbox.education/store/p/the-costume-design-toolkit

THE PROTAGONIST JOURNAL

The very first issue of The Protagonist Journal was launched a few weeks ago and has already been downloaded over 2000 times!

This has been created specifically for drama and theatre students. In this inaugural edition, we explore a range of exciting topics to enrich your students’ journey through drama and theatre studies. From groundbreaking techniques to practical advice, our aim is to provide students with valuable insights and tools to apply in their own work.

And the best part? It's FREE!

You can download the first edition for you and your students here: https://www.blackbox.education/the-protagonist-journal

DEVISING DRAMA AND THEATRE

FREE INTERACTIVE GAMES AND EXPLORATIONS

This collection of six interactive and engaging games is designed to support students in the creative process of devising original drama and theatre. Each game focuses on a specific aspect of devising, encouraging exploration, collaboration, and critical thinking. Through these activities, students are equipped with tools to generate ideas, refine their storytelling, develop characters, and reflect on their creative journey.

Check them out here: https://www.blackbox.education/devising-drama-games

FREE PHYSICAL THEATRE TOOLKIT

Black Box Education has crafted the Physical Theatre Toolkit. It's grounded in experimentation and one that encourages young performers (our students) to take risks, persevere through challenges, and, most importantly, create theatre that is bold, authentic, and deeply expressive.

It’s free to download and use here:
https://www.blackbox.education/physical-theatre-toolkit

The toolkit includes:

- 25 Techniques and Frameworks Chart Cards that you can use as a full curriculum, embed in your planning or use in devising projects or rehearsal processes for script work.

- 100 practical exercises designed to develop students' physical theatre performance skills, enhance creativity, and support their understanding and exploration of the techniques and frameworks.

- A teacher's booklet.