This article describes a creative drama workshop program developed for children by the Bloomington, Illinois Parks and Recreation Department and Illinois State University. (PD)

The study of comedy can inject life into a stale curriculum. (JH)

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…

In a review of dramaturgy (the collective techniques of dramatic composition), the concept of structuralism holds promise for treating many of the traditional problems in dramatic theory, criticism and production. Traditional attitudes toward intentions, influences, style, and interpretation have long been dominated by a historical approach,…

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…

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…

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…

Available from: Players: The Magazine of American Theatre, N.I.U. Theatre, DeKalb, IL 60115. Subscription Rates: $5.00, one year; $8.50, two years; foreign, $1.00 extra per year.

Narrates the story of how one teacher introduced a class to the drama of poetry. (DD)

Discusses an investigation designed to determine the dramatic features used by professional sportscasters to add excitement to and enliven weekly sports viewing. (MH)

Suggests the possibility of using two actors to portray one narrator in a Chamber Theatre performance of Herman Melville's short story, Bartleby the Scrivener. (MH)

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)

Discusses a project proposed and implemented by the Children's Museum of Boston whereby children participate through 'role playing' in a program focusing on the changing role of children in the American family during the last two hundred years. Available from: Children's Theatre Review, Children's Theatre Association of America, American Theatre…

Advocates the performance of live drama by teachers in the classroom as a method of promoting immediacy and involvement. Describes one such performance and student responses to the experience. (Author/DH)