The diversity of important work being done by women in many aspects of theatrical performance in the United States is illustrated in this journal issue. The nine articles provide discussions of the following: (1) women's careers, images, and movements in the American theatre; (2) the evolution of La Mama, an off-off-Broadway theatre group begun in…

In spite of the importance of the one-act play as an art form and as a tool for teaching playwriting, authors of playwriting texts have devoted little space to the study of the form. Because of this neglect, there is no definition of the form that is simple and specific enough to undergrid efforts to teach or write it. In the absence of a solid…

Clara Tree Major, the first producer to provide professional touring plays exclusively for children's audiences (from 1925 until 1954), not only produced these plays but also wrote the scripts by adapting children's stories for the theatre. This paper investigates Major's playwriting principles and techniques, examines Major's philosophy in play…

Problems in the preparation of a school play for opening night are discussed in this paper for the benefit of directors who may not have had any previous experience in play production. The questions of what the director does, when he does it, and why he does it are all explored in sections on choosing a play, establishing command, casting, the…

The distinctive philosophies of Bertolt Brecht and Jean-Paul Sartre concerning man's existence directly influence their attitudes toward character, action, and the total drama. Both playwrights reveal that drama is an inseparable and reciprocal molding of content and form. The relationship between their ideas and their expressions of them is so…

A creative drama program for eight secondary school aged severely physically handicapped students is described. The 20-session program is explained to have focused on effective communication through such drama activities as sensory exploration tasks, poetry, pantomime and improvisation. Space and time limitations of the program are cited. (CL)

The purpose of this paper is to advance the state of chamber-theatre theory by providing a mechanism not only for the staging of works of prose fiction using several narrators but also for those works which have been cast in a temporal sequence inconsistent with the customary perception of time. Venn diagrams are used to represent logical…

This article is designed to share some insights into the concept of "sense of place," a new area of study that is of special interest in our time. It examined some differences between the stage and the screen in their use of settings and environments and considered implications growing out of those differences. (Author/RK)

A description of how a fourth grade class filmed their class play of Cinderella. (HB)

Creative drama and language experiences are described as ways of improving speech and language learning in communication disordered children. (CL)

Theater, ranging from Chicano "actos" to classic Spanish-language drama, is increasingly becoming the forum to preserve and present an emerging body of Hispanic heritage and folklore. (Author/NQ)

Suggests ways to create dramatic play environments in which children can have experiences with all the language arts. (DD)

Characters in this short play, designed to interest students in learning about punctuation, are punctuation marks. (MKM)

A play in TV news format headlines the regulations on vowels and consonants. (Editor)