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Callahan, Daniel J. – Speech Teacher, 1974
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Dramatics, Teaching Methods
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Elliott, George P. – American Scholar, 1975
Article considered the Theater Of Honesty, a school of thought that bares all in its efforts to be totally honest, and the nudity in plays that accompanied it as he questioned the need for dramatic production to conform to its principles. (Author/RK)
Descriptors: Acting, Dramatics, Honesty, Sociocultural Patterns
Rolfe, Bari – Educ Theatre J, 1970
Describes the performances and performers in the international mime festival (Prague, Czechoslovakia, September 14-28, 1969). (SW)
Descriptors: Acting, Comedy, Dramatics, Pantomime
Gillespie, Patti Peete – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1981
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)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Drama, History
Gillespie, Patti Peete – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1981
Refutes several of Campbell's arguments that the audience is abstract rather than real. (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Drama, History
Campbell, Paul Newell – Southern Speech Communication Journal, 1981
Defends the notion of the abstract audience. Questions Gillespie's concept of audience adaptation and the relationship among play, actor, and audience. (JMF)
Descriptors: Acting, Audiences, Drama, Interaction
Shugert, Diane P., Ed. – Connecticut English Journal, 1982
Drama in the classroom is the theme of the 14 articles in this issue, which can be used as resource material for teachers concerned with incorporating drama into the English curriculum. Titles and authors are as follows: "All the World is a Stage--Except the American Classroom" (Charles R. Duke); "A Drama Program for All Seasons" (Paul Cervoni and…
Descriptors: Acting, Characterization, Creative Dramatics, Drama
Mathematica, Princeton, NJ. – 1979
The second phase of a two-phase study of the condition and needs of the live professional theatre in America since the mid-1960's called for recommendations by an advisory group appointed by the National Endowment for the Arts. These recommendations, based on the data collected during the first phase of the study and on personal experience, as…
Descriptors: Acting, Federal Government, Federal Regulation, Government Role
Hutchinson, P. William – 1977
Six months of observation--at two universities, at a drama festival, and with several independent theatre companies--form the basis for this evaluation of theatre in Kenya, Africa. While Kenyan dramas deal with a variety of themes, the majority are topical rather than universal in their treatment of issues. In many, the emphasis is on the…
Descriptors: Acting, African Culture, African Literature, Drama
Johnson, Albert and Bertha – 1969
This book with a three-part format contains information which the would-be thespian needs to know for maximum enjoyment and success in stage activities. The first part, "Heritage," traces the history and development of the theater from primitive ritual through the drama of classical Greece and Rome, the Renaissance, and modern Europe and America,…
Descriptors: Acoustical Environment, Acting, Characterization, Creative Dramatics
Signorelli, Phil – Theatre Crafts, 1974
Contains ideas for "greasepaint masks." (CH)
Descriptors: Acting, Design Crafts, Dramatics, Higher Education
Gross, Roger – 1980
This discussion of the term "style" as it relates to the arts points to the need for reform in the terminology and the conceptual system of the drama profession. The paper first lists the basic tasks of conceptual and terminological reform and then outlines the steps necessary in reforming a particular term. These procedures are applied to a…
Descriptors: Acting, Concept Formation, Definitions, Drama
Waller, Adrian – 1975
This book--written for amateur theater groups, students, and drama enthusiasts--pinpoints many of the problems that arise when plays are produced on a limited budget and argues that it is not necessary to have large sums of money behind a production for it to be artistically successful. Acting, directing, and the art of make-up are discussed in…
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Financial Needs, Production Techniques
Moe, Christian; Raphael, Jay E. – 1974
The emphasis in this bibliography of theatrical craftsmanship is on live performance and related stage techniques. Entries are listed under seven categories: administration and management, educational/children's theater, acting, directing, design and technology, playwriting, and production reports and reviews. This last category lists entries…
Descriptors: Acting, Bibliographies, Dramatics, Playwriting
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Colman, E. A. M. – Southerly: A Review of Australian Literature, 1975
Discusses the mutual distrust that exists between those who profess the art of theater and those who practice it, especially as the problem applies to Australia. Southerly, The Wentworth Press, 48 Cooper Street, Surry Hills, N.S.W. 2010, Australia, Annual subscription: $8.00...Australia and New Zealand; $9.00...United Kingdom; $9.75...Other…
Descriptors: Acting, Drama, Higher Education, Literary Criticism
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