This article discusses the successes and vulnerabilities associated with combining pedagogical methods of Theater, Composition, Community Literacy in Composition classroom. It examines how ideas Augusto Boal’s Theatre Oppressed Paulo Freire’s Pedagogy can be combined to support an innovative approach teaching, one that additionally employs engaged scholarship service learning. The essay describ...

Playwriting guides, creative writing handbooks, and screenwriting manuals are replete with guidance as to how an author should express their themes. One common rule of thumb is that the climax where themes, characters, narrative’s result converge in terminal thematic statement. If theme established elaborated on during a film, then its film’s authors position matter through or lack thereof. As ...

Abstract Wole Soyinka and Samuel Beckett apparently occupy distinct places in the literary space, all ramifications. Specifically, while former’s dramaturgy is definable within context of traditional convention playwriting, otherwise known as well-made plays, latter inherently non-conformist this regard. Hence, effort paper was to locate a nexus their writings, using two Death King’s Horseman E...

This article argues that the work of Welsh theatre director and playwright Peter Gill occupies a unique place in post-1960s’ British playwriting. It explores Gill’s plays as – using critic Susannah Clapp’s phrase “missing link” between kitchen-sink realism more self-consciously poetic forms text. make an important contribution to history working-class representation UK for three main reasons: f...

Among the countless afterlives of William Shakespeare’s playwriting there is a strong presence his visions state and political powers. In universal, philosophical ways Shakespeare was addressing issues concerning power, social organization, hierarchy, rank in what inevitably were origins modern, capitalistic societies. Therefore, many powerful images resonate today works contemporary writers wh...

the eighties era (the equivalent of first decade of the twenty-first century) has an important role in the history of contemporary iranian playwriting for its diversity. by evaluating the plays written in 1380s, on the one hand, some important information is achieved about the latest patterns, techniques and the styles of writing iranian drama and on the other hand, many guidelines can be provi...