Abstract
Unfortunately an all too common situation will be repeated this fall in our schools, a situation which has been the bane of many a beginning English teacher in the past. When the time comes to designate extra duties and assignments, the principal has only to look to his first-year English teacher to find the director of the SCHOOL PLAYS! Limited perhaps more by a lack of training and background than imagination and talent, the teacher frantically searches for that "cheap, easy play" as a first go. And so we see the teacher - soon-to-become-director poised at the brink of plunging into the abyss of "Uncle Herman Gets a Date" or something similar. Is there no hope of rescue? Is this first venture into the theatrical world doomed to mediocrity and worse? Is there no one to advance the cause of theatricality in the face of overwhelming odds? Yes! He is here! More famous than Oedipus, more quickly recognized than Hamlet. He slinks upon the stage; he swirls his black cape; he twirls his black mustache; he speaks! "Curses, foiled again!”
Journal Title
Iowa Communications Journal
Volume
9
Issue
1
First Page
28
Last Page
31
Language
en
File Format
application/pdf
Recommended Citation
Becker, Louis
(1977)
"Melodrama in the Secondary Schools,"
Iowa Journal of Communication: Vol. 9:
No.
1, Article 6.
Available at:
https://scholarworks.uni.edu/ijc/vol9/iss1/6
Copyright
©1977 Iowa Communication Association
