Directing High School Theater: The Impact of Student-Empowerment Strategies and Unconventional Staging Techniques on Actors, Director, and Audience.

Gonzalez, Jo Beth

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ERIC Number: EJ607793

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Publication Date: 1999

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Directing High School Theater: The Impact of Student-Empowerment Strategies and Unconventional Staging Techniques on Actors, Director, and Audience.

Gonzalez, Jo Beth

Youth Theatre Journal, v13 p4-22 1999

Describes how the author used "democratic" directing methods in her after-school play rehearsals of Shakespeare to help high school students navigate the shifting space between their own creative freedom and the conventional confines of a public high school. Details her use of unorthodox rehearsal strategies involving student empowerment, and unconventional staging. (SR)

Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Ethnography, High Schools, Production Techniques, Student Empowerment, Student Participation, Teacher Student Relationship, Theater Arts

Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Descriptive; Reports - Evaluative

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Language: English

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