English 4371: Cultural Encounters

Householder, fall 2005

10/06/05: Reader’s Theater

 

 

  1. Reader’s Theater is an opportunity to contemplate the thematic or ideological “core” of a text by identifying, isolating, and rendering it visible through performance.

 

 

 

 

  1. Working in groups, you will create a short skit that enacts that core.  One skit for each of the four parts of Strachey’s “A true repertory.”  You have 15 minutes, so work quickly.

 

 

 

  1. Requirements

 

 

    1. Must involve everyone (may include narrator, special effects, etc.)

 

 

 

    1. Must be between 1-4 minutes  

 

 

 

    1. Must be able to defend what you chose to represent and how

 

 

 

    1. May cover more than one particular “scene,” but should strive to develop as much as possible a particular thematic core.  To that end, you might consider titling your skit or “act”