The theatre is a wooden stage where people go out. No, its people who go out to perform a play they feel, something they want to perform, for example, friendship. In the end people applaud, but they applaud two things: the sacrifice that the artists make to do it well and the work of the one who has written it and has done it. This is how a nine-year-old girl expressed herself in 1976, one of my first drama students, when I was starting to teach. If I were to ask any of my students today, I would not differ too much from that definition. Another 10-year-old girl wrote: A drama teacher is easily distinguished from other teachers because he is friendly and his classes are very pleasant. Besides, he doesnt send much work home, although he does send some. The class he gives us doesnt look like a class, since they are very short. Before starting those first theatre sessions with children, I had a series of questions, to which I am still searching for answers today. They are questions that every professional (or not) in childrens and young peoples theatre should ask themselves from time to time, so as not to lose the sense of what they are doing.
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