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"At a
time when educational edicts from on high are routinely imposed on
our children, it is a welcome change to find someone trying to
redress the balance.
"Christopher Gilmore was himself a teacher within the
conventional system, but at the same time he favours an heuristic
approach to teaching, being the Education Director of The Holistic
Education Foundation. His work includes a complete series of
complementary curricula called DOVETALES.
These guidebooks for learner-managed lessons emphasise experience,
creativity and participation, rather than data, productivity and
specialisation." - Geoffrey Lee Cooper RESURGENCE
"Here at last is the means to acknowledge, in our schools,
some of the deep philosophical and spiritual questions that are
emerging alongside modern discoveries with these ten guidebooks
called DOVETALES.
"INTEGRATED
SCIENCE - Love Before Learning? - is an exciting and rare
find. Full of endless inspiration..." Bonnie Alexander
Hill for CADUCEUS
Stage
actor
Edinburgh
Festival with Maggie Smith; Crewe with Glenda Jackson; London's
West End, tours etc.
"Remember child, all actors are tarts at heart" - Henry
Worthington, actor, at my grandad's funeral!
Films include
With Orson
Wells I'LL NEVER FOR GET WHATSHISNAME and SOME LIKE IT COOL for
Michael Winner.
"A good Catholic? You only serve at Mass because it's like
being on a stage!" My mother, R.I.P.
Television
includes
Prince
Florizel in Shakespeare's THE WINTER'S TALE and PC Clyde in BBC's
DIXON OF DOCK GREEN.
"Cops in
toyland ! Tell fans I thought the programme sentimental,
old-fashioned pap? FAME? But at what price?"
Playwright
Edinburgh
Festivals OLD
FRUIT, first at the The King's Head with Julia Lang &
John Justin; also CAESAR'S REVENGE a comedy on re-birth channeled
by Rosemary Brown through the dead atheist Bernard Shaw!
"Are you
seriously suggesting the late GBS dictated this to Rosemary Brown,
the psychic, at her piano through the spirit of
Lizst...?"
SHANGRILA
- stage musical, Music Sari Flexer and James Church.
Two loves, five lives, one P-A-S-S-I-O-N!
Theatre
Director
SLEUTH, in Majorca, 1st production after West End run;
THE BLUEBIRD for ballet/drama school;
Southsea Grand;
SEARCH FOR SANTA, Southsea Grand with
cast of 152; + dozens of productions at London Drama schools,
LAMDA and Mountview.
Secondary
School Musicals include:
TELLING TALES, OLD SCHOOL TIE, LILLIPUTLAND
"Walt Disney Productions, for some dizzy-making months,
showed interest in my family stage show SEARCH FOR SANTA.. What a
laugh! Productions of shows named above the press called
MAGICAL!"
Film Writer/ Director
Award Winning TAKING STOCK, used by Thames Valley Police; ROAD
HOGS, Prince Michael Road Safety Award Scheme.
"With
streetwise kids of known criminals, we devised the multi-media
TELLING TALES, a musical fantasy set in a harsh school.
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