A curriculum on theater is presented in this volume prepared by the Central Atlantic Regional Educational Laboratory (CAREL) Arts and Humanities Curriculum Development Program for Young Children. Topics in the 23 page Rationale section range from theories of cognitive development to an extensive explanation of the workshop concept which is…

This directory presents a comprehensive report on the educational theatre in the U.S. More than 60,000 data are given which describe this field as it is represented in 1,581 regionally accredited U.S. colleges and universities. The culmination of more than 18 months' work by the AETA College Curriculum Project, the book's purpose is to furnish…

Previous studies of elocution and expression in America established the cultural significance of oral reading activities in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There is an abundance of information available from private oral expression schools established by four prominent Dallas teachers: Mrs. A. A. Cocke, Mrs. Pearl Wallace Chappell,…

This book, comprising about 600 entries, is an attempt to compile a comprehensive general bibliography of modern Irish drama. Other bibliographies have been selective or have dealt mainly with individual playwrights, but this volume attempts to update and consolidate in one volume all the existing bibliographies containing secondary material, plus…

This is an anthology of reviews and critical pieces of the significant and available Shakespearean films made between 1935 and 1966. Included are three general essays on Shakespearean film by Ian Johnson, Henri Lemaitre, and Geoffrey Reeves. The specific films and their reviewers are: A Midsummer's Night Dream (1935) Allardyce Nicoll and Richard…

This study investigated the effect of play-like behavior on the learning of elementary arithmetic. Kindergarten children from one school were pretested on addition and subtraction of the numbers zero through five; and eight groups of five subjects were randomly selected from those scoring below the mean. These groups were then randomly assigned to…

This booklet provides instruction, for the director of junior high and senior high school plays, in the effective arrangement of characters on stage. Suggested exercises include the construction of still-picture tableaux on stage (using scenes from fairy tales and Chekhov's "The Bear") and the implementation of "blocking"…

The interrelationship of performers, text, and audience in reader's theater may be better understood through philosopher Martin Buber's key concepts of polarity, dialogue, and inclusion. These concepts operate within four polar tensions identified by Buber: that between the performer and the character represented; that between the performer and…

Individual short stories are to encourage role playing are presented.

Defines metaphorical staging as group interpretation that gives a ritual or symbolic stage form to literature and illustrates this concept by describing the staging of D. H. Lawrence's story "The Horse Dealer's Daughter". (MH)

There are a number of positive educational values in the production of a school musical. Concerned teachers, however, raise serious objections to musicals because of the damage they supposedly bring to adolescent voices. Suggests ways in which problems of voice abuse can be eliminated, giving particular emphasis to selecting the musical, casting,…

Three important concepts, plot, dialogue, and characterization, which literature and theater share, can be clarified for children through improvisation. Discusses two improvisation exercises that emphasize these three literary devices through stories and poems related to the general themes of "people and places" and "nature's world". (Author/RK)

Includes approaches to pantomime, improvisation, expanding a character, role playing, reader's theater, live stage, and script writing. (DD)

Suggests integrating theatrical experiences into total art experiences by using creative workshops to challenge the intellectual, emotional and physical needs of elementary school children. Available from: Children's Theatre Review, Children's Theatre Association of America, American Theatre Association, 1029 Vermont Avenue, N.W., Suite 402,…

The importance of play in the development of healthy individuals is due to the fact that play is an excellent vehicle for the integration of emotion, thought, and action. (Author/MJB)