Show Biz: Performance and Text in the Children's Show
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When contemplating the play of my childhood in terms of performance, one specific play frame comes to mind over and over again: the "show." A "show" was what my siblings, cousins and friends called any kind of planned display of our play, where parents and other friends were called together and asked to pay attention to what we were doing. The key word is "planned"; shows were not necessarily rehearsed, but they were always discussed ahead of time. Sometimes a program would be written, either for us to follow informally, or to be formally distributed to the audience. Indeed, a "show" was directly intended to be a performance, with a designated audience and specific keys to indicate where the performance began and ended. A pattern does seem to emerge in the development of these "shows" in my own life; over the years they grow more oriented towards a written text and less towards play. The performance becomes less fluid, more rehearsed, more rigid, more like "a play" than "play." Of course, if one looked for it enthusiastically enough, any pattern might emerge. It would be interesting if a truly empirical study were to be carried out concerning the development of children's "shows" other than my own.
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