Finding Your Muse: Rekindling Your Creative Spirit Through Readers Theatre by Dr. Susan C. Brown & Polly R. Blalock
O for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention… Shakespeare
To unpathed waters, undreamed shores. Shakespeare
Do you want to find your muse, rekindle your creative spirit? The Readers Theatre Summer Institute may very well be an excellent fit for your time and resources if you can arrange to separate from your regular life for a mere two weeks in July. Do you have the desire for personal growth, for a renewed connection with what is truly important in your life? If you can answer yes to the creativity query, then the time away from work, and the money to pay for it all will fall into place, culminating in the experience of a lifetime.
MASTERING YOUR PERFORMANCE POWER: ANXIETY MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES by Dr. Susan C. Brown
Our deepest fear is not that we are inadequate. Our deepest fear is that we are powerful beyond measure. It is our Light, not our Darkness, that most frightens us. We ask ourselves, who am I to be brilliant, gorgeous, talented, fabulous? Actually, who are you not to be?
Nelson Mandela
Performance anxiety, or stage fright, also called topophobia, is an occupational hazard for anyone who performs in a public setting. No one is immune. Some of our greatest actors have suffered immeasurably from stage fright even while enjoying the majesty and power of the stage. To most of us who perform it’s just another day at the theatre, but for some the symptoms can be debilitating. As Luciano Pavarotti once said, “I would not ever want an enemy to suffer those terrible moments!” So how do we keep from suffering the “slings and arrows of outrageous fortune?”
“Reader’s Theatre in the Literature Classroom” by Gerald Lee Ratliff
Gerald Lee Ratliff is a frequent speaker and workshop leader at national English and theatre conferences on Reader’s Theatre and performance approaches to text interpretation. He is also author of the popular textbook An Introduction to Reader’s Theatre that features exercises to personalize classroom performances for students.
Reader’s Theatre in the Literature Classroom
Traditional literary analysis approaches to teaching Shakespeare texts view the notion of classroom performance as an occasional exercise in oral interpretation of literature or small group recitative reading aloud. Classroom performance viewed from this decidedly rhetorical perspective frequently acknowledges the inherent dramatic qualities of a Shakespeare text but chooses to present rather than represent literary characters. For others, however, teaching Shakespeare is part of a theatrical tradition of classroom performance that translates the author’s words into both a physical and vocal interpretation of the text and is not limited solely to the critical analysis of its isolated parts.
Setting the Stage…by Dr. Patrick NG
Setting the stage for Extensive Reading through Readers Theatre
Hi everybody,
I am Dr Patrick NG and currently teaching English in the University of Niigata Prefecture in Japan. My country of origin is Singapore and before coming to Japan, I taught English in a primary school and later at the university.
I started to become interested in Readers Theatre when I was teaching English in the primary school. In my class, a number of students did not speak English at home, and it was difficult to persuade them to engage in extensive reading as a means to improve their English proficiency.
Readers Theater: Embracing the Mission…by Carol Montgomery
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CALL FOR PAPERS–Spring 2011
The Readers Theatre Digest is issuing a call for papers for its Spring Edition. Papers can be on any aspect of Readers Theatre from performance to theory. The articles will be juried for publication on April 1, 2011. To submit an article, contact Lucy Rioux at lucyrioux@gmail.com for a submission password. Articles should be submitted by March 1, 2011 and should be between 1,000 and 2,000 words.
Readers Theatre as a Breakthrough in Japanese EFL Classrooms
Readers Theatre as a Breakthrough in Japanese EFL classrooms
Keizo Asano
Chicago–
Chicago –
Its name bursts from the mouth with a rush like the city’s famous gust of wind.
Readers Theater in Taiwan: meeting needs, confronting challenges
Readers Theater in Taiwan: meeting needs, confronting challenges
—by Sarah Brooks—
