Drama & Theatre: Introduction

This guide has been created in order to assist students in their investigation and research in the field of theatre and drama.  It is not meant to be all inclusive, but rather a selection of topics, issues, researchers and thinkers, books, online resources and social media to pique interest in theatre and drama and act as a road map as to where further resources can be found.

"Puppets always have to try to be alive," says Adrian Kohler of the Handspring Puppet Company, a gloriously ambitious troupe of human and wooden actors. Beginning with the tale of a hyena's subtle paw, puppeteers Kohler and Basil Jones build to the story of their latest astonishment: the wonderfully life-like Joey, the War Horse, who trots (and gallops) convincingly onto the TED stage.

Basil Jones and Adrian Kohler, of Handspring Puppet Company, bring the emotional complexity of animals to the stage with their life-size puppets. Their latest triumph: "War Horse."

Theatre, as any other academic discipline, uses terms and abbreviations in a specific way. This link will take you to the Glossary of Technical Theatre Terms from TheatreCrafts.com