CPD Courses
IN-PERSON PRACTICAL WORKSHOPS:
Making Verbatim Theatre with The Paper Birds
Dates coming soon!
Watch this space for in-person courses programmed for October 2026.
A brand new full day workshop for drama teachers and theatre facilitators, exploring The Paper Birds’ approach to making original devised verbatim theatre.
This course explores using real testimony and interviews within a devising process. A practical and engaging workshop spanning verbatim collection and approaches to research, editing and finding a throughline, and developing content from page to stage.
Join us for an authentic insight into how the UK’s leading devised verbatim theatre company develops verbatim theatre throughout the devising process.
Fee: £200.00 (including VAT)
Early Bird ticket prices available – more info to follow soon!
DIGITAL CPD RESOURCES:
Introduction to The Paper Birds - CPD Video
We took all the best bits from our brilliant ‘Intro to The Paper Birds’ in-person Course, and filmed them especially for you to access any time, anywhere!
Join Kylie and Georgie as they deliver exercises to explore the 5 Key Ingredients;
- Movement
- Verbatim
- Character & Narrative
- Exposing the Method
- Motif
Exercises include:
- Dot to Dot Choreography
- Recreate the Image
- Levels of Verbatim
- Arranging Found Text
- Flowing Sentences
- Memory Moments
- Swapping Parts
- Breaking the Action
Structuring Devised Performance - CPD Video
- Do your students excel at devising material, but struggle with how to bring it together?
- Do they lean in to naturalistic scenes and find it difficult to see past the storyline?
- Tool up on how to steer them through our methodology; enabling your GCSE and A Level students to create thought-provoking, multi-faceted devised performance.
Our popular ‘Structuring Devised Performance’ Course has made it to video!
Get your hands on the live stream of our 2023 webinar – edited with additional footage and complete with an instruction booklet to follow along the exercises, from the comfort of your own home. Join Jemma, Kylie and Georgie for a 90-minute video as we structure a ‘hypothetical’ play alongside the assistance of a team of drama teachers!
Purchase in our SHOP, download the booklet and follow the Vimeo link to stream directly.
Fee: £50.00 including VAT
Flying Higher - CPD Video
Download the webinar we held on 5th September 2020, where we deliver exercises sampling each of the 5 key ingredients of our work; Verbatim, Movement, Exposing the Method, Character & Narrative, and Motif. All that you need to encourage your students to generate thought provoking political theatre in the style of The Paper Birds! Exercises are designed to be lifted directly, to allow you to relay with students from KS4-5.
The course is accompanied by a detailed PDF Resource Pack that includes links to watch extracts of our touring productions. You can use all the exercises in school and distribute the video links for students to watch independently or together in class.
Purchase in our SHOP, download the booklet and follow the Vimeo link to stream directly.
Fee: £50.00 including VAT
Distanced Devising - CPD Video
In the height of the 2020 pandemic, we ran a webinar exploring our approach to ‘distanced devising’. This is a direct grab from the webinar as it went out live.
At a time where social distancing was enforced and group work was challenging, we recognised that our episodic and fragmented approach to staging work, telling stories, and approaching choreography; was a fresh take on making devised work in a social distant climate.
Included in your download is the accompanying PDF Resource Booklet with all the exercises and video-clips for you to keep and return back to.
Fee: £30.00 including VAT