Small high schools on a limited budget do not have to sacrifice a theater program. An innovative teacher/director can use basic materials to develop an outstanding program based on units within the language arts curriculum, minicourses, staged readings, or productions of original plays. Recent research supports dramatics in schools. Includes 13…

A student learning to work on stage sets needs to become familiar with standard materials and equipment, the ways in which they operate, and ways to piece them together to create a set for a scene. This package contains the following three lessons for acquainting the learner with such information: resources and equipment, piecing together some…

Offers several suggestions to high schools for organizing, coordinating, promoting, and selling their theater season. (JMF)

This curriculum guide is intended for a course to provide high school students with a unified study of the production staff that makes a play possible: theatre management and set design, make-up, lights, and sound staff. The activities suggested in the course may be used as a laboratory and taught in correlation with the actual production of a…

Answers questions drama teachers ask on funding drama programs, motivating apathetic students, rehearsal schedules, publicizing school plays, and set construction/design techniques with limited facilities and finances. (PD)

Bibliographies of ERIC and other resource materials in secondary school drama. (CH)

Observes that class plays still exist in many schools. Discusses reasons why all-school-type productions are superior to class plays in terms of educational opportunities, overall morale, and continued growth of quality theater programs. (PD)

Defines "tableaux vivant" as the three-dimensional enactment of still pictures. Describes its use in the theater and as a tool in theater study. Presents a series of warm-up and tableaux exercises for use in the classroom. (JMF)

Enumerates justifications for the teaching of dramatics to adolescents. (CH)

Citing the success of commercial dinner theatres, this guide is designed to persuade high school drama teachers to try the idea and also to answer questions and help solve problems for those producing a dinner theatre for the first time. The six chapters cover choosing the place, the menu, and the play; ticket sales; advertising and publicity; and…

Good photos are an essential part of play production. This quiz contains 20 photos to be rated excellent, good, or poor for publicity purposes. Answers give detailed explanations of the merits or flaws in each photo. (PD)

Presents a list of suggestions for developing a cooperative relationship among the various specialists who are involved in a high school musical production, such as "Hair." (JMF)

Outlines how Bishop Walsh High School in Cumberland, Maryland, solved the problem of staging a multiset musical, "Guys and Dolls," on a circular thrust stage with no curtain, by using four four-sided rolling variations of the Greek "periaktoi," tall column-like structures whose faces can be painted with scenic elements. (JMF)

A secondary level, multicurricular Quinmester course on stage design is tentatively outlined. The study and application of design and construction as it relates to stage production introduces students to the setting that man creates to give an illusion of the time, locale, and mood for his dramatic productions. The overall success of this illusion…

Describes mime program at a high school. (CH)