Play

Literacy Prop Box A prop box is a box full of age-appropriate props that pertain to a specific story. They help the children learn more about the story through play. Props not only help children learn new words, but also express their comprehension of the story in a fun and creative way. Vukelich, Christie, and Enz (2010) wrote that “stories for dramatizing need dialogue and action-characters who say and do something” (p. 95). For this assignment, I created a prop box for a circular book called…

screenwriter, husband and father. Born in Chicago, Auburn then grew up in Ohio and Arkansas, where he developed his deep love for the arts. Attending the University of Chicago, he joined “Off Off Campus Theater Group”, where he began acting and writing plays and monologues. Auburn also became a critic in his university’s newspaper. Shortly after majoring in English Literature(1991), Auburn accepted a Stephen Spielberg Fellowship and studied in Los Angeles. In 1992, he moved to New York, met his…

When children assume a role, they play a part as if they are somebody else in a specific situation. A play means that a role is taken on in a safe environment where children can be seen as inventive and playful as possible. The technique of the role play is emboding a character or a type and reflecting this character’s thoughts and feelings. It provides the children or participants with the opportunity…

Shakespeare’s plays can be universally placed in production due to the flexibility and richness of the English language itself. His plays can be set in almost any time and place without changing the script. This change of location and time is part of the production concept. Cynthia Marshall, the editor for As You Like It,…

a stupid sport and they think that it is just a boy sport, but it is not. Everyone can play basketball. Even the people who are in wheelchairs play basketball. I like the sport because some people like to sit on the couch and be a couch potato, but I think basketball is a fun sport to go out and play when I am bored. I love basketball because it is a family sport, I can play 1 on 1 with my dad or we could play a 3 on 2, it does not matter about the teams what matters is me and my family get to…

Vijay Tendulkar in his plays like “Ghashiram Kotwal”, “Silence! The Court is in Session” etc has used the “Tamasha” form to expose the social and political ills in the contemporary society (Sharma, p.14). By Developing the flexible as well as carefully crafted form, models of recitation and storytelling specific to his region, he has managed to bridge the gulf between traditional and modern theater by creating a vibrant new theatrical form, an example of which is the play “Ghashiram Kotwal”…

When younger kids play recess games like tag, infected tag, and so on helps kids cognitively and physically . Cognitively it can teach them empathy and not to be egocentric. Physically it helps them improve their gross and fine motor skills. Recess is the time for kids to get active and play with each other and explore one’s boundaries. It may seem like kids are just playing tag with their friends but it’s more than that it can teach the kids not to be egocentric. Egocentrism is thinking only…

Similarly Bruce (2011) believed play enables children to think in abstract ways, being able to develop their own theory of mind, being creative and imaginative as well as being flexible thinkers. This shows us that Bruce also agrees with play, playing an important factor in boosting creativity and imagination among children. I agree with Bruce by experimenting with new things such as paints…

coordinating elements that go hand in hand. The way that Ibsen has created this message and theme is extraordinary, and never been done before, displaying the break away from sexism presented in this play. The issue brought to light in this play correlates with modern day problems with gender roles and sexism. In the play A Doll’s house, Henrik Ibsen presents how breaking gender roles can lead to a liberating lifestyle, Ibsen conveys this using a distinct use of symbolism, character analysis,…

Emily Klein’s essay, Antiwar Activism and Structures of Trauma in the Plays of Even Ensler and Kathryn Blume, encapsulates the process of social change in response to the theatrical pieces by Ensler and Blume and the development of the shows to reflect the increasing trauma present in society due to the Iraq War. The author discusses the stages of trauma and the feelings the playwrights tried to resonate to the audience like absence, repetition and memory. Klein also debates the changes in the…