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- Card decksDevising prompts, practitioners and production roles, in your students’ hands.8 items · from £20
- Books and guidesOfficial IB student handbooks, the ISTA Method and step-by-step teaching guides.6 items · from £19
- PostersTheorists, world traditions and film essentials, as digital sets to print for your classroom.7 items · from £10
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Practical resources in action
Our boxed card decks are our best sellers, and the resources teachers tell us work best in the classroom. Each one opens up a different part of arts teaching, with hundreds of ready-to-use prompts and free teacher guides to download.
- Devising
Creative Constraint Cards
205 prompts. Infinite possibilities.
Each card sets a single creative constraint that pushes students to make bold choices, solve theatrical problems and generate original material, from a five-minute warm-up to a whole devising process.
- 205 cards
- Boxed deck
- Free teacher guide
- Performance and rehearsal
TEAM Cards
212 prompts. Every moment matters.
Every card begins “A moment where…” and builds on one of four elements, Tension, Emotion, Atmosphere and Meaning, giving students a shared language for creating, analysing and refining theatre.
- 212 cards
- Boxed deck
- Free teacher guide
- Theorists and practitioners
Theatre Theorist Cards
39 practitioners. Four suits. Three decks.
Playing cards that turn the ideas of global theatre practitioners into practical exploration, with each theorist’s approach set out across Spaces, Performers, Audiences and Ideas.
- 52 cards per deck
- 3 decks
- Free teacher guide
- Film production and analysis
Film Production Cards
Think like a filmmaker.
Built around the director, cinematographer, editor, sound designer and screenwriter. Students create through a role with the Practical deck, then analyse films through the eyes of the people who made them with the Analytical deck.
- 65 cards per deck
- 2 decks
- Free teacher guide
Collections
Whole series for your studio walls
From Stanislavski to Kabuki, download a whole series in one go and print it for your classroom display, as often as you like.
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Best sellerCard decks
Theatre Theorist Cards Set 1 - Story and Narrative Deck
£22
Best sellerBooks and guides
Adventures in Theatre: The ISTA Method book
£19
Card decks
Creative Constraint Cards
£55
Books and guides
IB DP Theatre Student Handbook
£39
DownloadFilm Production Roles
Film Production Roles: Poster Set (Digital)
£15
DownloadSCENE magazine
SCENE Magazine - Issue 04 (2026)
£9
Card decks
Film Production Roles - Practical Deck (Deck 1)
£20
Books and guides
IB DP Film Student Handbook
£39
DownloadPosters
10 Essential Films: Poster Set (Digital Download)
£10
DownloadSCENE magazine
SCENE Magazine - Issue 03 (2025)
£9
Card decks
Film Production Roles - Analytical Deck (Deck 2)
£20
DownloadBooks and guides
Digital instructional guides for theatre teachers: Devising activities
£45
DownloadFilm Classroom
Film Course Essentials: Poster Set (Digital)
£15
DownloadSCENE magazine
SCENE Magazine - Issue 02 (2025)
£9
Card decks
TEAM Cards: Tension, Emotion, Atmosphere & Meaning
£55
DownloadBooks and guides
Digital instructional guides for theatre teachers: Activating imagination
£45
DownloadTEAM in Action
TEAM in Action - Digital Poster Set
£20
DownloadSCENE magazine
SCENE Magazine - Issue 01 (2024)
£9
Card decks
Theatre Theorist Cards Set 2 - Movement and Physical Theatre Deck
£22
DownloadBooks and guides
Digital instructional guides for theatre teachers: An introduction to Verbatim theatre
£45
DownloadWorld Theatre Traditions
Theatre Traditions - Digital Poster Set
£50
Card decks
Theatre Theorist Cards Set 3 - Production and Stage Design Deck
£22
DownloadTheatre in the World
Theatre in the World - Digital Poster Set
£12
Card decks
ReflectiON cards
£20
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