In Singapore, resilience lies at the heart of the nation's efforts at building a strong civic culture. For those experiencing urban poverty, resilience holds little weight against the national rhetoric of self-reliance and meritocracy as keys to success. This paper presents a three-way conversation between the researcher, applied theatre…

This review of the permanent exhibition of the International Red Cross and Red Crescent Museum in Geneva focuses on its representations of extreme forms of violence as well as humanitarian struggles against these. The article pays close attention to the role that theatre and performance plays in the construction of the museum as a space in which…

Traces standards and goals for children's theatre in America, since its founding in 1903. Outlines positive and negative aspects of children's theatre. (PD)

Describes many of the participants in the 19th Annual International Ventriloquist Convention and the history of the art of ventriloquism. (MDH)

Argues that an audience is real rather than abstract and is necessary to the art of the theater. Demonstrates that audiences are too diverse to be described by an abstraction; audiences affect performances; and interchange occurs between actors and audiences. (See CS 705 537.) (PD)

Refutes several of Campbell's arguments that the audience is abstract rather than real. (JMF)

Examines style in children's theatre, focusing on pantomime, vaudeville, and theatre of the absurd. Traces shifts in the appeal of these styles from adult to children's theatre and then possibly to extinction. (PD)

In the early 1900s adults found the theatre unsatisfactory entertainment for children. In the name of children's rights, children were forced out of the audience and off the stage of New York's professional theatres. (PD)

This paper analyzes Paul Gregory's 1951 production of "Don Juan in Hell," now considered to be a seminal work in the development of professional and educational readers theatre. The paper contends that the production, which presented a nondramatic work without the usual emphasis on design and spectacle, forced a reexamination of the role…

This comment on Roger D. Gross's definition of "style" explores the ramifications of that definition for the theatre teacher. It is noted that Gross's definition may help with two common pedagogic difficulties: (1) convincing students that theatre and drama of the past were regarded by their audiences and practitioners as entirely…

Views on the impact of women's studies and the feminist perspective in scholarship in the humanities and social sciences are presented in nine essays. Each essay concludes that while women's studies has the potential power to transform the academic disciplines, it has yet to alter college and university curricula. A second theme that emerged from…

Seven articles explore ways in which students, administrators, and faculty can initiate and sustain conversation about the public life they share, and about dealing with the multiculturalism of today's campuses. The articles are: (1) "Backing into the Future: Columbus, Cleopatra, Custer, & the Diversity Revolution" by Carlos E.…