Gabi’s Speech and Drama Community

October Meet Up: Understanding Stanislavski

Grade 8 Acting Knowledge: From Theory to Practice

Oct 15 • 

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Terms and Conditions: clarity is kindness

Way of saving our sanity and our time

Oct 8 • 

Gabi Maddocks

September 2025

Summary and Analysis of Grade 7 Sonnets

Thank you for all the positive comments about the Grade 7 Sonnet resource pack published last week!

Sep 30 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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Grade 7 Verse and Prose Sonnets

A Resource Pack for Speech and Drama Teachers

Sep 23 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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Using the double Anthology situation to our advantage...

... giving us more time to assess students before deciding on a grade.

Sep 16 • 

Gabi Maddocks

September Meet Up: Scripts, Sonnets & Syllabi

Watch now | For those who prefer to read rather than watch, here’s a summary of the meeting:

Sep 10 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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Additional Set Text List: VERSE AND PROSE!

Am I the only one who missed this?

Sep 8 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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A favour - what do you think of this monologue?

Hi everyone - as you may know, my Speech and Drama Education Company (The Playing Space) is publishing a new collection of original monologues.

Sep 2 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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August 2025

What Examiners Wish They Could Tell Us

Small changes that can turn a merit into a distinction

Aug 19 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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Collated list of plays that are on the additional set text list

I did (some of) the work so you don't have to!

Aug 12 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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Additional Set Piece List: Update has gone live!

But what does it all mean?

Aug 1 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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July 2025

Speech and Drama for Foreign Language Students

Learning a language in the holidays...

Jul 29 • 

Gabi Maddocks

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