Speed: Necessity is the mother of curricular invention

Theatre Production / Technical Theatre education has a recognised and established signature pedagogy that has heavy contact time and a highly practical learning environment at its core. In this presentation, I will examinehow technical theatre training programmes across the globe have had to
immediately pivot in their delivery due to the COVID-19 pandemic. How much of this has challenged the previous assertions that the established signature pedagogy is the best way to deliver technical theatre training in 2021, and what are the lessons learned and the opportunities in ‘the new normal?’