Excerpt from Community Drama and Pageantry
This book is offered as a preliminary survey of some of the technical questions involved in writing and staging pageants and community drama. The main purpose has been to make the suggestions as practical as possible. For this reason there has been no attempt to trace the history of the various dramatic types discussed, nor to deal too abstractly with theories of the drama.
The book itself is the outgrowth of actual experience in pageantry and community drama. In its outlines it is based upon the courses which the authors, both jointly and separately, have given for the last three sessions at the Summer School of Dartmouth College. These courses have been supplemented by considerable practical work in staging performances at Hanover, N. H., and elsewhere. The authors therefore hope that the statement of some of their problems and the discussion of the difficulties which, as will be seen from the following pages, are yet to be solved, will help others interested in the subject of community drama to arrive nearer their goal.
In conclusion the authors wish to express their thanks and gratitude to their friends who have given generous help in preparing the various chapters. In particular, thanks are due to Arthur Farwell, of New York City, for criticism of the chapter on music; and to Andrew Keogh and May Humphreys of the Yale University library for patience in answering questions and offering aid in compiling and checking the bibliography.
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