Twelve synopses of plays for classroom use at different levels from primary to upper grades. (CM)

Applies Mikhail Bakhtin's theory of the novel to Bertolt Brecht's "Drums in the Night" to illuminate the play's dialogic structure and alienation value, and reappropriate its prerevolutionary dimensions for contemporary use. (MM)

Compares the views of Burke and Langer, emphasizing their agreement that the potential of dramatic works to elicit desired responses from audiences lies in the element of formal expressiveness, which in effect defines ideal audiences. (MS)

Suggests that drama, as well as training or therapy, may be employed as a useful research and practice paradigm in working with small groups. The implications of this view for group development as a whole, and for member and leader participation, are explored. (JAC)

"Playesque" (in the manner of a play), Volume 1 features original plays for performances in high school, junior college, and other amateur venues. The plays are reproducible and royalty free for educational and nonprofit performance. They are easily duplicated and performed, and provide complete directions for costuming and staging. Each…

Presents a history of British television drama and the improvements implemented since its inception. (AN)

The plight of the playwright, torn between his desire to be fulfilled as a writer and his need to succeed at the box office, is described. It is speculated that Broadway may be losing its claim as the center of American theater. (CK)

Employs a critical application of Kenneth Burke's notions of form and perspectivism. Argues for the potential of a complementary relationship between form and perspectivism in the appeal of rhetorical artifacts. Claims that form is perspectival, limiting possibilities for appropriate interpretations within a text. Applies this theoretical…

Suggests that many drama teachers feel that "doing plays" runs counter to their purposes in drama. Shows that the writing of plays and the presentation of dramatic experience may be activities of the same kind, both relying on attention to context and demanding an appreciation of the ordered nature of life. (MG)

Describes the experiences over the past 11 years of the FOLKTELLERS, two librarians who became traveling storytellers. A sidebar offers several storytelling tips and lists Folktellers recordings and upcoming performances. (MES)

Presents a step-by-step description of a safe and sure process that students can follow to produce durable, storable, and re-usable (or cheap-enough-to-throw-away) scenery. Includes figures to illustrate the process. (PRA)

This paper tells the multi-layered story of how the author came to write a theatre script about breasts as part of her research. She frames this writing as 'border-work' as she plays at the edges of academic and fictional writing. In this paper ideas from Barthes and Cixous are interleaved with extracts from the author's own texts and with her…

In this article Chris Cooper conveys something of his passionate belief in the importance of attending to the preconditions of learning. He stresses the crucial role of the imagination in this, bringing, as he puts it, creativity to the process of learning. His account of a drama project based on "The Tempest" provides important insights into the…

This article, a play designed around an imaginary conversation between geometric objects, summarizes various approaches to visualizing a tesseract (a.k.a. hypercube--a four-dimensional analog of a cube).

The use of blogging (online diaries), to support student learning and reflection has increasingly been adopted for assessment purposes in higher education. The relative ease of use and accessibility of the tools indicate that these social networking applications are, potentially, a convenient means of documenting and sharing individual student…