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As I walked into the room, the tension was palpable. The secondary theatre teachers were clumped sporadically throughout the black box theatre; most were hidden in the uppermost rows of the audience. I mentally reviewed the situation.
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Dawson, K. (2018). Reflections on School Change Through the Arts. In: Etheridge Woodson, S., Underiner, T. (eds) Theatre, Performance and Change. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-65828-5_7
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