With the celebration of the United States bicentennial as impetus, university students and faculty attempted several approaches to the creation of a touring documentary production composed almost completely from primary sources. This paper describes the process involved in producing a traveling show which featured groups relatively excluded from…

Designed as a practical guide for teachers, this handbook presents ways of introducing drama and movement into secondary school curricula. A basic program for a movement class is offered, based on three objectives: one's own movement, secondary or underlying motives, and the balance of freedom and discipline. In the first section of the book,…

Prospective theater teachers not only can be trained to develop self-actualization in high school students, but they must develop self-actualization in themselves. Self-actualization, as the cornerstone of humanism, emphasizes the achievable goal of being (rather than becoming) creative, spontaneous, curious, concerned about others,…

Radio plays can provide opportunities for high school or college students to act without having to memorize scripts. Elements necessary for a well-produced radio play consist of: (1) a suitable play, which may be a simple play or an adaptation of a short story or novel; (2) a radio script which is plausible and feasible within the limitations of…

This publication centers on the theory and practice of dance education. After an introduction which highlights the development of dance education, a statement of philosophy based on the importance of dance as an efficacious synthesizing and civilizing activity is rendered. The major portion of the document is devoted to the implications of dance…

This play-choosing guide is designed to help amateur theatrical companies in matching the casting, staging, costuming, and financial resources at their disposal with the corresponding requirements of about a hundred full-length plays. The plays have been divided into three categories: farces and comedies, drama, and thrillers and mysteries, and…

A close reading of "Improvisations for the Theater" and "I and Thou" will show that there is a common ground linking the games theory of Viola Spolin and the philosophy and religious teachings of Martin Buber. Relation, to Buber, is the direct and immediate response where two people share mutually with one another. It is this…

Theatre historians show little inclination to reflect on the ideologies that govern their work, on the premise that "theatre is theatre" with little relationship to its socioeconomic environment. One of the causes is the historians' reliance on theatrical "facts," as they were in the same category as facts established in the natural sciences.…

This book embodies the concept that the dynamic interplay of experiences and activities remains part of the child's functioning throughout life and that it is the role of adults to establish, where they can, the forms of activity in which children will engage. The chapters describe various contents for such activities and discuss how adults can…

An authorized course of instruction for the Quinmester Program in Dade County (Florida) public schools is given for study of Norwegian dramatist and social critic Henrik Ibsen. The course includes an introduction to four dramas which reveal that man's dream of perfection can sometimes lead to destruction, sterility, and estrangement from life.…

Developed with the recognition that many playwrights have theater in their blood (e.g., Eugene O'Neill was the son of a famous actor), the three lessons in this package present, through experience, the fundamentals of dramatic structure. These lessons for the beginning playwright focus on elements of dramatic plot, conflicts, and crisis and…

Offered are guidelines to the development of theatre for, by, and about deaf persons. Various terms used for sign-language theatre and deaf theatre are defined and discussed in an introductory section, and the use of sign language as a theatrical medium is explained. The production of theatre is covered by sections on the history of deaf theatre,…

Improvisational exercises can be used when teaching dramatic literature, but only when they reflect the universal issues of the play text being studied and when they lead students to a deeper understanding of the dramatic work. (RL)

Reported are the activities of the U.S. Office of Education Task Force on Gifted and Talented Education, which centered around three issues: minority and disadvantaged gifted, leadership training, and visual and performing arts. (BD)

Outlines the educational values of educational theater in high schools in terms of the audience as well as the performer, including such areas as motivation, reading comprehension, literary analysis, the value of repetition, the ability to meet deadlines, and accepting responsibility for one's own work. (JMF)