Five Years of Progress in Dramatics the Chi Pi Players (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Five Years of Progress in Dramatics the Chi Pi Players Dramatic activities at East Carolina Teachers College have been largely centralized in one organization and under the leadership of one person for a period covering approximately five years. In this time dramatics as an extra-curricular activity has taken on new meanings and has become a vital campus-wide force. This, furthermore, has been without benefit of formal faculty super vision, although not without faculty support. The school has always encouraged dramatics and has had a reputation for giving good plays from its earliest years. Every senior class has given a play, and so have literary societies, clubs, lower classes and other groups given plays. Each of these was until late years, however, a unit within itself each working separately for one production. Members of the faculty directed many of these and faculty sponsors and committees were pressed into service as assistants. For others, directors from outside were engaged and the list of these guest directors is an imposing one. For two years, 1933-1935, this College was the center of a Federal project in community drama, with the director for the district in charge of dramatics in the College. She also taught a class in play production. For the first time there was serious attention given to play production or theatre arts. Enthusiastic groups did excellent work, a dramatics club, The Maskers, was organized and a number of plays were given. It seemed that at last a well-organized program was to be carried out, but when the director was called elsewhere, the group was left without a Jeader. In the fall of 1936 a young man entered college who stepped into leadership. For the six years since, Clifton Britton has been leader in virtually all dramatic activities on the campus, except those connected with class work. He entered college with a reputation for achievement in dra matics that had preceded him. He came from a county that had a little theatre, the Northampton County Little Theatre, and where the children in the schools were brought up on dramatics. He scarcely remembers when he first took interest in plays but his first success was when he directed a play for the seventh grade, his own class. From then on throughout high school days followed in rapid succession play after play on which he worked, either playing a role, directing, advertising, constructing scenery, or doing technical work. All this was under the training of the Milwaukee Community Players. In the gap between high schooland college he was busy assisting with high school plays in neighboring counties as well as his own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.