Pageants and Pageantry (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Pageants and Pageantry

Five complete pageants are contained herein, and any one Of these may be given as a whole or by single episodes. Each may be given as elaborately as resources permit, or as simply as an Elizabethan play. Experience has taught the author to spend the minimum time rehearsing and to throw the maximum of responsibility on the actors. In this way the art keeps its charm and spontaneity, and the burden lies far less heavily on the teacher. When the Colonial Pageant was given in Springfield, parts were assigned and actual work begun only two weeks before the final production. Many schools devote a half hour every Friday morning throughout the school year to dramatic work in the assembly hall in the presence of the entire school. For such occasions separate episodes in the following pageants will be found admirably suited, and will necessitate but two or three rehearsals. The entire pageants will furnish material for graduation exercises, school exhibitions, or anniversaries.

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