This article analyses plays written for child performers in the early twentieth century. The plays chosen are classified as "instructional" and aimed at developing pupils' knowledge of the curriculum. The focus is on understanding why these plays were useful for Froebelian educators in the period. Friedrich Froebel (1782-1852) was a…

The work of British playwright Sarah Daniels is some of the most politically provocative on the contemporary British stage. The uproar over Daniels' work comes not only because she argues for social change, but also because she offers models for building a new order. Two plays, with their comedy and their radical separatist politics, are…

A theory explaining the essential nature of comedy is explored in this paper. The first part of the paper posits the theory that comedy is a relatively harmless divergence from an expected norm or outcome, and discusses the following elements of the theory: (1) the divergence from reality, (2) the notion of expectation that includes the entire…

Provides details of performances by the Floating Point Science Theater working with elementary school children about the characteristics of water. Discusses student reactions to various parts of the performances. (DDR)