Readers Theatre or reader’s theater or Something Else?
One of the challenges of writing about and publishing lots of books about drama in language education is trying to decide what to call the thing where students read plays or dramatized texts out loud. Is it readers theatre, readers theater, reader’s theater, or reader’s theatre?
You’d think it would be easy to solve this problem: check a corpus.
Well if Google’s Ngram Viewer is worth anything, it’s clearly reader’s theater, with readers theatre a close second! Which is odd because those two options vary on both spelling and the apostrophe.
But the plot thickens. What happens when we capitalize the words, which is not uncommon?
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