This book suggests ways to incorporate fist puppets into children's theater activities. Chapters discuss logical places for puppets (including, among others, schools, clubs, community and civic centers, and hospitals), the fist puppet and how it is operated, selection and adaptation of plays for puppets, and making puppets, costumes, puppet…

Carolina Readers Theater is touring the Region with a dramatic portrayal of the essence of the Appalachian character and experience. (Author)

Humorously elaborates the vicissitudes of directing a high school play as rite of passage. (JK)

The Spolin Theater Games consist of more than 200 games and exercises to encourage spontaneity, creativity, and interpersonal communication in group settings. This article describes the use of Spolin games in four classes of six- to nine-year-old educationally handicapped children and looks at changes that occurred, particularly in the way…

Uses Susan Cooper's book, "The Silver Cow," to illustrate how teachers can move from story drama to more complex improvisation. (PD)

This article describes the teaching method of Dorothy Heathcote, Professor of Drama at the Institute of Education at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. She uses classroom dramas for her classes, letting the children create their own dramatic situations. (JA)

A selection of Christmas plays and skits in Swiss German. (DD)

Chamber Theatre, which stages prose fiction, is described and defined in terms of its differences to Readers Theatre, and in terms of narrator and point of view, past tense, and epic mode.'' (Author)

A discussion of the three small theatres of Prague, the Balustrade, the Drama Club, and the Gate, and their significance as a symptom and even as a contributory cause of socio-cultural realities." (Author/DR)

Plays, Pantomine, and songs suitable for presentation at Christmas programs. (AP)