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| Audience Response | 1 |
| Childhood Attitudes | 1 |
| Childhood Interests | 1 |
| Drama | 1 |
| Revision (Written Composition) | 1 |
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| Bush, Max | 2 |
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Peer reviewedBush, Max – Stage of the Art, 1996
Uses a dialogue between two aspects of the same person (playwright/director) to answer the question posed in the title. States that initial productions of a new play are important for rewriting and reshaping the material and that performance confirms what is healthy and alive about the play. Concludes that the time for enjoying the performance…
Descriptors: Audience Response, Playwriting, Revision (Written Composition), Theater Arts
Peer reviewedBush, Max – Youth Theatre Journal, 1987
Responds to Catherine Dezseran's call for children's plays with "serious" subject matter, approves of her ideas, and suggests that more pointed criticism of the contemporary plays she mentions would be helpful to writers of children's plays. (JC)
Descriptors: Childhood Attitudes, Childhood Interests, Drama, Playwriting
