We already commented on the way the public theatre seems fairly well settled in its return to life after the recent lock-down. What is now announcing itself is a return to normalcy in the corridors of learning. Activities in the halls of the national drama school, for instance, have been showing tentative signs of re-emerging from the cocoon of on-line tuition into which it had retreated. But it is now stepping out onto the public stage.
The National School of Theatre Arts and Drama (NSTAD), one of the four Schools of the Institute of Creative Arts (ICA), a few months ago invited the public to an exhibition of theatrical and SFX make-up designed and applied by students being trained by the tutor Steve Douglas, the acclaimed designer of Bravo Arts. That was the first bold open event by NSTAD after its two-year hibernation when interested persons could see what drama students were learning at the institution about special effects and character make-up for the stage and the screen. The work being done in the studio and with models was shown on stage at the National Cultural Centre (NCC).
