Readers Theatre by Children

Abstract

? 1978 by The University of Chicago. 0013-5984/79/7901-0005$00.75 Readers Theatre, as it is usually practiced, is a dramatic procedure in which the roles in a play are read by individual performers with little of the staging that normally accompanies conventional theatre. Rather than memorizing dialogue, the performers in Readers Theatre read from handcarried scripts. The readers sit or stand and use their voices, rather than action, to focus their attention (and that of any audience) on the ideas in the literature. Facial expressions and body movements are restricted and suggestive. This brief description of Readers Theatre indicates how