A previously relatively unexplored area of theater history studies is the quantification of titles, authors, and locations of productions of plays in Canada and the United States. Little is known, for example, about the number of times any one play was staged, especially in the earlier days of American drama. A project which counts productions on…

This report of two audience analyses at the University of Delaware Theatre was prepared as a guide for other university theatres that may need an understanding of the people who attend their dramatic presentations. Such analyses can provide information about who is attending the theatre, how performances are evaluated, what influences audience…

This summary of a final report concerns a project that dealt with the problem of inadequate materials for use in theatre arts education at elementary and teacher training levels. Research during an eight-month period consisted of seeking, examining, assessing, and procuring materials in four large European areas. The status of children's drama as…

Internal narration is a "direct quotation of the mind" without authorial intervention, in which the reader overhears characters thinking silently. Dramatic interpretation and internal narration share the characteristics of primarily auditory expression and symbolic use of images. One of the most widely read and taught examples of this…

This report discusses two teachers' conferences jointly financed by the Michigan Speech Association and the Michigan Education Association. The teachers discussed how speech and dramatic performances translate into terminal behaviors, how group tasks can be adapted to individual accountability, how to communicate achievement to students, and how…

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Traces the history of the youth theatre movement in general and specifically discusses the National Youth Theatre from its inception through the present. (Available From: CS 703 732) (MH)

Role-playing activities were employed by an elementary school counselor to influence moral development. Support was not found for moral reasoning and social perspective-taking levels being influenced by role-playing. Evidence in support of the age-related nature of these constructs and their parallel pattern of development was found. (Author)

Children aged 2 1/2, 3, and 3 1/2 years who had demonstrated appropriate uses for a set of objects, were asked to perform these same actions with objects which varied in similarity in the reference object, or with no object present. (JMB)

The author describes a method for using dramatic improvisation as an approach to teaching history to visually handicapped children. (SBH)

Small high schools on a limited budget do not have to sacrifice a theater program. An innovative teacher/director can use basic materials to develop an outstanding program based on units within the language arts curriculum, minicourses, staged readings, or productions of original plays. Recent research supports dramatics in schools. Includes 13…

Dr. Merlin (director of the Rodolfo Usigli Center for Research, Information and Documentation at Bellas Artes, Mexico City) talks about professional children's theatre, creative drama in education, and the child as artist. (PD)

Explores some of the implications of developing a curriculum that strives for dramatic literacy. (PD)

Describes Stockholm's theatre program for children with mental retardation, motor disabilities, or cerebral palsy. (PD)

Examines and discusses ways in which the presentation mode can affect children's talk when they are engaging in dramatic dialog. Gives special attention to those differences in language that occur across varying contexts of situation in drama. (HTH)