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Director as Dramaturg.
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Miller, Scott – Stage of the Art, 1995
Describes the creation of a theater-based program for eighth-grade students in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg (Georgia) Schools. Chronicles the efforts of playwright Ed Shockley to write a play focusing on teen violence and aimed at eighth-grade students. Concludes that the program and the play succeeded in accomplishing their goals. Relates three…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Grade 8, Junior High Schools, Middle Schools
Writing from the Edge: A New York Playwriting Program for "At Risk" Students.
Goldstein, Ezra – Teaching Theatre, 1995
Posits that theater can be a transforming experience. Describes a program, "Write on the Edge," run by the Manhattan Theatre Club which attempts to formalize and institutionalize theater's potential to alter the course of young people's lives. Notes that students are drawn from New York city jails and alternative high schools. Concludes…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Enrichment Activities, High Risk Students, High Schools
Directing High School Theater: The Impact of Student-Empowerment Strategies and Unconventional Staging Techniques on Actors, Director, and Audience.
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Gonzalez, Jo Beth – Youth Theatre Journal, 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…
Descriptors: Educational Strategies, Ethnography, High Schools, Production Techniques
Theatre-in-Education and Child Sexual Abuse: A Descriptive Study.
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Dezseran, Catherine; Katz, Barbara Myerson – Children's Theatre Review, 1985
Describes the planning, implementing, and evaluating stages of "Choices," a theatre-in-education program on intrafamilial child sexual abuse produced by the Louisville Children's Theatre for third grade students in Jefferson County, Kentucky. (PD)
Descriptors: Child Abuse, Children, Creative Dramatics, Grade 3
Drama, Masculinity, and Violence.
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Balfour, Michael – Research in Drama Education, 2000
Explains that criminal justice agencies have acknowledged that imaginative and engaging styles of education are crucial to rehabilitative work with offenders. Investigates the ways in which a drama-based cognitive-behavioral program in the United Kingdom for violent offenders can construct and review its theoretical approach through practice.…
Descriptors: Behavior Modification, Cognitive Restructuring, Correctional Education, Foreign Countries
Using Panorama Theater To Teach Middle School Social Studies.
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Chilcoat, George W. – Middle School Journal, 1995
Describes how use of panorama theater to teach middle school social studies can aid in teaching the academic skills of defining a problem, locating and collecting data, organizing and designing tasks, drawing inferences, creating and building interpretations, revising and editing, and interpreting data. Presents a classroom example of a panorama…
Descriptors: Civil War (United States), Class Activities, Classroom Techniques, Learning Activities
The Living Stage Improvisational Theatre Demonstration Project for Orthopedically Handicapped Children, Ages 4-8. Overview, 1978-1981.
Alexander, Robert; Haynes, Wendy – 1981
The Living Stage Improvisational Theatre Demonstration Project (Washington, D.C.) conducts weekly workshops to enhance the creative expression and self esteem of orthopedically handicapped children, aged 4 to 8 years. The Living Stage program is designed to demonstrate that methods of improvisational theatre can have a positive impact on parental…
Descriptors: Creative Expression, Demonstration Programs, Early Childhood Education, Physical Disabilities