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Effective drama, Dorothy Heathcote insisted, required neither script nor audience. Her pioneering methods, now adopted across the globe, revolutionised drama in education, taking acting off the stage and into the classroom.
Born into Yorkshire poverty in August 1926, Dorothy Shutt developed a love of reading early on: every day, she would walk to school with a book held in front of her. At the age of 14, she left school and went to work for a nearby wool mill. But she continued to read: a wealthy local spinster allowed her free access to her private library. And, spurred by a love of drama, the teenager scraped together money for elocution lessons.
In 1945, she won a scholarship to Northern Theatre...