Children and theater: Eternal questions and topical answers. Review of the collection of articles “Children and Theater” 1925
The collection of articles "Children and the Theater" published in 1925 is a bibliographic rarity. The collection includes six articles reflecting the main issues of the development of theater pedagogy at the beginning of the 20th century. The text of the review contains not only the resto...
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| Language: | English |
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Ekaterinburg Academy of Contemporary Art
2022-09-01
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| Series: | Управление культурой |
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| Online Access: | https://managing-culture.eaca.ru/archive/2022/3/8 |
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| Summary: | The collection of articles "Children and the Theater" published in 1925 is a bibliographic rarity. The collection includes six articles reflecting the main issues of the development of theater pedagogy at the beginning of the 20th century. The text of the review contains not only the restored names of the authors of the unique edition, but also biographical information. The information makes it possible in retrospect to trace the creative path of each of the authors of the collection, who made a significant contribution to the formation of the culture and art of the Soviet state. N. S. Sher describes the problems of professional theater and its place in the life of a child, ways of including theatrical art in the educational process.M. D. Markovich gives a description of the real games of children in preschool institutions (in Lenin and Trotsky, in an airplane, in bourgeois and workers), shares advice on organizing theater classes with children through play. Sergei Rozanov's article "Theatre at School" can be considered a methodological guide to organizing theater work in an educational institution.A. A. Chumachenko raises questions related to the repertoire for the children's theater, the need to create plays for children based on contemporary phenomena and events, including children in understanding the processes taking place in society. The creator of the first toy museum N. D. Bartram describes the organization of puppet theaters as a process of creative self-realization of children, indicating in detail how and from what to create various types of theatrical puppets, scenery, mechanisms.The collection ends with a text by Grigory Roshal about a mass holiday with practical advice on organizing children in the process of preparing, conducting and subsequent reflection of a mass theatrical holiday. The modernity and relevance of the approach to organizing a holiday is surprising - studying the audience, preparing an “accounting form” - an event checklist. Published almost a hundred years ago, the collection contains a lot of practical advice, axiologically and methodically useful and unexpectedly relevant. For example, N. Sher's call "not to build a theater for children according to the laws and forms of the theater of adults, not to make [it] a cast from the theater of adults." The ideas outlined by the authors almost 100 years ago determined the further development of one of the areas of pedagogical science - school theater pedagogy. The theoretically substantiated principles of working with children by means of play proposed in the collection, the author's methods for organizing theatrical work with children and adolescents are still relevant today both for the pedagogical community and for culturologists and historians. |
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| ISSN: | 2949-074X |