There are several ways in which theatre education in Guyana in its widest context has been broadening its scope and attempting to achieve greater depth at a national level. The National School of Theatre Arts and Drama has become central to the delivery of this education. It has been doing this incrementally as it has developed since its inauguration in 2013 and has been realising responsibility for wider areas in an attempt to effect the dissemination of knowledge in this field as an agency of the Ministry of Culture.
This redefinition of the concept and scope of theatre education is, however, now being given greater emphasis and adds to many other activities associated with this endeavour. Included in the totality of this delivery is the significant and emphatic increase in the offer of drama as a CXC subject in secondary schools. This includes a deepening of the activities at the Theatre Guild which has now added the CAPE Performing Arts class to its decades of training. The Bishops’ High School and New Amsterdam Multilateral have also taken on the CAPE syllabus,
