This study examines the pedagogical potential of Critical/Reflective Readers Theater (CRRT) in teaching American literature to non-native English speakers in Taiwan. Implemented within a semester-long course at National Kaohsiung Normal University, the 18-week CRRT program integrated performance, collaborative script adaptation, and reflective…

Children can become script masters if they have a teacher/director who follows certain procedures, such as: (1) select a script that has relevancy to the cast; (2) audition the children via an interview process prior to reading the script for the first time; (3) cast the children based on appearance, sound of the voice, and personality more than…

Directors of plays can make rehearsals interpretively productive, but they must first reject directorial approaches such as beginning rehearsals without analyzing the script, projecting images of the play as it is read, and using the script merely to summarize meanings, static themes, morals, and nothing more. Making rehearsals interpretively…

Advocates having students stage drama, especially Elizabethan, to discover the production values that add meaning to the text. (CRH)