Supported by UNESCO, the World Theatre Day (WTD) has been celebrated by ITI Centres and their associates with active participation of theater lovers on March 27 across the world since 1962.
The Message Author for WTD-2022 is Peter Selllars, Opera, Theatre and Festival Director, USA, who is noted theater personality who holds that theater is an art form in which performances done by the trained actors presented before a live audience.
The theme for WTD-2022 is as usual 'Theatre and a Culture of Peace'. Across the world various theater groups organize events and many other things to celebrate WTD.
A few years ago, a readers' theater was organized as a part of the observance and action research done. The abstract of the study is is being shared for teachers and schools to organize eventful learning.
Action research abstract
An action research in training of resource persons for readers’ theater reveals that the strategy or readers’ theater can be viable for reading skills of individuals.
A two day training of resource persons (N=10, age=30-45 years, elementary teacher educators) by the investigator as a facilitator.
Objectives the training were: (1) to prepare the material for body language (50 sign language gestures) and reading passages (n=20) from the textbooks of late primary classes; (2) To train participants in the skill of using gestures and articulation to read the passages to an audience; (3) To know the reactions of the participants to the training; and (4) To prepare one month zero-hour intervention for grade three and four.
The first day of the training consisted of the ice breaking activities of statue and mirror which were followed by modeling by the facilitator and guided practice by the participants.
The second day was devoted to corrective feedback and individual presentations followed by preparing a work plan for the school-based intervention.
The participants’ reactions were significantly favourable (N=10, p<0.05, DF=2) on chi-square test.
Keywords: Reader’s theater, body language, sign language, gesticulation, ice breaking, articulation.
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