Discusses the casting of small roles in television's dramatic series in terms of social stereotyping. Information is based on interviews with writers, producers, directors, casting directors, and talent agents. (JMF)

Explains the Viewpoints, a technique used to focus actors' awareness on different elements of performance such as tempo, duration, gesture, and spatial relationships. Notes that this former avant-garde technique is now taught by mainstream directors. Proposes that Viewpoints is a valuable tool for the rediscovery of a production. (PM)

Describes the day-by-day process of a high school drama production. Discusses the play, auditions, set construction, directing, student morale, costuming, blocking, dress rehearsals, performances, and other aspects of the production. (PRA)

This article discusses the symbiotic relationship between emotion and rationality in leadership in primary schools. It uses the literature of both emotion and leadership to ask whether school leadership has learnt some of the lessons from the recent interest in emotion and leadership. Drawing on recent research into the lives of primary school…

Contains ideas for "greasepaint masks." (CH)

This discussion of the term "style" as it relates to the arts points to the need for reform in the terminology and the conceptual system of the drama profession. The paper first lists the basic tasks of conceptual and terminological reform and then outlines the steps necessary in reforming a particular term. These procedures are applied to a…

A survey of approximately 450 novice Shakespearean actors was undertaken to determine what could be learned from a careful study of the initiation of new performers acting Shakespeare that might be helpful to others. The findings revealed that the typical initiate perceives acting Shakespeare as different from other acting, indicates a definite…

High school students should be given the opportunity to do improvised duet acting, and criteria for evaluation of performances of improvised duet acting should be established. Although planning and prepared work should be discouraged as much as possible, because of the time limitations for the performance, it is good for the performers to know…

This book--written for amateur theater groups, students, and drama enthusiasts--pinpoints many of the problems that arise when plays are produced on a limited budget and argues that it is not necessary to have large sums of money behind a production for it to be artistically successful. Acting, directing, and the art of make-up are discussed in…

The emphasis in this bibliography of theatrical craftsmanship is on live performance and related stage techniques. Entries are listed under seven categories: administration and management, educational/children's theater, acting, directing, design and technology, playwriting, and production reports and reviews. This last category lists entries…

This study was designed to test the effect of a director's expectation of a good or bad performance by his actors on the judged effectiveness of their performances. Thirty-two actors were randomly chosen from volunteers in an introductory course in communication theory at the University of Wyoming. The eight directors were students in an upper…

Discusses the mutual distrust that exists between those who profess the art of theater and those who practice it, especially as the problem applies to Australia. Southerly, The Wentworth Press, 48 Cooper Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W. 2010, Australia, Annual subscription: $8.00...Australia and New Zealand; $9.00...United Kingdom; $9.75...Other…

Focuses on the traditional comic acting style that prevailed in England from 1820 to 1840 by examining the acting of the commedienne whose sixty-year career spanned the first half of the century. (MH)

Advocates short performances by students in introductory drama classes. (DD)

Analyzes Roman Polanski's cinematic interpretation of Shakespear's "Macbeth" comparing imagery, brutality, and world views. (RB)