Theatre in Education (TIE) is a theatre style first named in Britain in 1965 and typically includes a theatre company performing in an educational setting, such as a school. Alongside Director's Challenge, we will be exploring TIE and will create 2 TIE styled performances. Therefore, I think it is important that I investigate the style of TIE.
What is TIE?
As suggested by Roger Wooster in 2016, the 'classic' TIE is where young people are engaged at an emotional personal level but are protected by the constructs of theatre. Following WW2, parents wanted a more egalitarian approach to education that nurtured as well as informed the young.
Main Aims
To get a point/message/piece of information across to an audience.
Who is it used by?
By theatre companies employed by client's who want to spread a specific message to their target audience.
Differences between TIE and 'normal' theatre
TIE is motivated by their target audience and the client's message rather than one of empathy or getting an audience to become emotionally attached to a character.
What type of theatre is it similar to?
In some respects, it is quite similar to Brechtian theatre as both would have a strong social or political message, both break the fourth wall and therefore may have an element of audience participation.
Client's Role
In TIE the client's role is to provide the message irrelevant of what a theatre company thinks and will provide the funding.
Target Audience
This determines how the theatre company will shape their piece. If it is for children they have to be mindful of language and to not bore them by using facts.
In lesson, we looked at how to present a TIE piece to differing target audience's while still maintaining the client's main aim of decreasing deaths on the roads. The target audiences were children under 9 and adults over 25. We learnt to not be patronising, something which is clear from both pieces and to include more facts. Personally, I think that TIE is a great tool but is hard to pull off successfully.,
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