Describes how students with disabilities can participate in theatrical productions. Discusses the positive effects of theater on disabled students. (PRA)

Argues that William Shakespeare's "The Tempest" is the play that is best suited for the high school English curriculum of the 1990s. Discusses historical and critical aspects the play's key themes. Shows ways of using the play in high school classes, and describes 19 works to read alongside of"The Tempest." (HB)

Presents two approaches (linear and holistic) for integrating drama into the classroom curriculum. Suggests that both formats offer teachers a practical technique to implement an active approach that engages students as they seek to master content. (RS)

This article suggests a courtroom drama that can be used to sharpen student skills in telling all about themselves. The students are then invited to use these skills to get acquainted with each other. (Author/AB)

Discusses ways that an understanding of Elizabethan religious beliefs and views of the connection between the mind and body can help the director of a Shakespearean play understand the internal motivation of the characters as revealed by Shakespeare's language. (SR)

Discusses Rehearsals for Growth (RfG), a method of using drama in the service of marital and family psychotherapy. It focuses on enhancing and developing skills that promote good relationship functioning and offering techniques for changing the stories that are cocreated about self and relationship. Describes games and exercises that illustrate…

Discusses how to encourage drama students to recognize and confront their privilege without reifying differences between white and other. Suggests using drama to illustrate institutionalized and invisible whiteness produced in the rhetoric of liberal humanism. Reconfigures identity as too situational and relational to be approached via race,…

Examines the relationship between reading and drama in learning. Argues that, through the study of their interaction and an examination of parallel processes at work, the potential of drama as a learning tool about reading is revealed. Explores their symbiotic relationship in a drama session which highlights some cognitive and affective…

States that imagination is essential to drama. Considers sources of imagination and relationship it has with creativity within the context of improvisation in the classroom. Considers the significance of originality as a criterion of quality and the place imitative practices have within it. Suggests alternative functions of the imagination to…

Describes a Voluntary Arts Network program involving the Globe Theatre in London that is focused on realizing the cultural and creative potential of lifelong learning by involving adult volunteers in drama projects. (SK)

Offer a strategy that can help make the work acting instructors do with their students as they prepare for college auditions as effective as possible. Looks at the process of finding an appropriate monologue. Established some ground rules for preparation and apply them to the monologue's development. Reviews suggestions to help students present…

Current training methods are not adequate to develop the level of communication skills needed in the workplace. Innovative methods drawn from theatre and educational drama, including using voice and body in communication and developing self-understanding, form the basis of integrated communication training. (SK)

It is widely assumed that the theatre, particularly theatre for children, can and should teach. It is also widely assumed that the theatre can and does do harm, real harm, especially to children. And it is universally assumed that even if the theatre does not teach, it should do no harm. This author believes that these assumptions are true: that…

William Shakespeare's "Othello" can be used as a project for drama study that might be culminated into a performance not of the play but of the writing and interpretive work completed by the students. The works of Theresa Toomey Fox, her Othello curriculum and the review of research and theory that supports an arts integration approach to teaching…

This research study describes a community-based pedagogical and theatrical project that centered on the use of creative writing, drama, and music as tools to unearth and cope with social problems. The class was grounded in the work of Brazilian teacher, actor, and activist Augusto Boal and philosopher Paolo Freire. The activities at a free summer…