Research Catalog

Title

Readers theatre handbook : a dramatic approach to literature / [by] Leslie Irene Coger [and] Melvin R. White.

Author

Coger, Leslie Irene

Publication

• Glenview, Illinois : Scott, Foresman and Company, [1967]
• ©1967

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Details

Additional Authors

White, Melvin Robert, 1911-

Description

259 pages : illustrations; 23 cm

Subject

Readers' theater

Bibliography (note)

• Bibliography: p. 252-255.

Contents

Pt. 1. Origins, concepts, and precepts. Ch. 1. Readers theatre : an introduction. Vitalized literary study ; Personal development ; Cultural enrichment ; Creativity -- ch. 2. Readers theatre : theatre of the mind. Definitions of readers theatre ; Readers theatre and the stage ; Origin and history ; Professional readers theatre ; Nonprofessional readers theatre ; Readers theatre and experimental playwrights -- ch. 3. Selecting and adapting material for readers theatre. Selecting script materials ; Selective criteria for plays ; Adapting the material ; Compiling a script ; Creating the original script -- ch. 4. The director prepares. Analyzing the script ; Ascertaining the author's attitude ; Staging the performance -- ch. 5. Casting, rehearsing, and performing. Casting the characters ; Initial and exploratory rehearsals ; Rehearsals for growth ; Evaluative rehearsals ; Polishing rehearsals ; Performance ; The director's check list -- ch. 6. Readers theatre is for children too. Values and advantages ; Selecting suitable scripts ; Directing the show for children -- Pt. 2. This is the way it was done. Abraham Lincoln / John Drinkwater ; The Barretts of Wimpole Street / Rudolf Beisier ; The battle of the sexes ; A Christmas carol / Charles Dickens ; Eneas Africanus / Harry Stillwell Edwards ; Every face tells a story ; Feiffer sketches ; The food of love ; The grass harp / Truman Capote ; Happily sedated ; The importance of being earnest / Oscar Wilde ; An Irish Faustus / Lawrence Durrell ; Little moon of Alban / James Costigan ; The little prince / Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ; Mainly mirth, mostly McGinley ; The marriage of Mr. Mississippi / Friedrich Duerrenmatt ; Mary and the fairy / Norman Corwin ; Mary Poppins / P.L. Travers ; The mikado / Sir William S. Gilbert and Sir Arthur Sullivan ; Our town / Thornton Wilder ; The promise / John Steinbeck ; Six times four ; Skin of our teeth / Thornton Wilder ; Tenderloin / Samuel Hopkins Adams ; Thidwick : the big-hearted moose / Theodor Seuss Geisel ; To kill a mockingbird / Harper Lee ; ... To meet Mr. Eliot ; The trial of Job / Douglas Davis ; A wilde night ; Wuthering heights / Emily Brontë ; The zoo story / Edward Albee -- Pt. 3. Sample scripts for readers theatre. Dandelion wine / Ray Bradbury ; Behind the beyond / Stephen Leacock ; The diaries of Adam and Eve / Mark Twain ; The reluctant dragon / Kenneth Grahame ; Observer : the person at bay / Russell Baker ; The song Caruso sang / George P. McCallum ; The ten worst things about a man / Jean Kerr ; The day that was that day / Amy Lowell -- Part four. Selected articles for further study. A philosophy on readers theatre / by Keith Brooks, Robert C. Henderhan, and Alan Billings ; The group reading: expression for drama of mental action / by E. Annette Monroe ; Scene location in readers theatre: static or dynamic? / by Marion L. and Marvin D. Kleinau ; Have you tried readers theatre? / by Margaret Nielsen.

LCCN

67021192

OCLC

• ocm00335579
• 335579
• SCSB-121051

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library