Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook

by Viola Spolin

Overview

This best-selling book by Viola Spolin offers the most comprehensive theater instruction for all types of students, from small children to young adults. It includes over 130 theater games, plus exercises and instructional strategies. First developed by Spolin, the originator of modern improvisational theater techniques, these games have been tried and tested for over fifty years.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810140042
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	12/01/1986
Edition description:	1
Pages:	233
Product dimensions:	7.75(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.50(d)

About the Author

VIOLA SPOLIN (1906-1994), the originator of theater games, was introduced to the use of games, storytelling, folk dance, and dramatics as tools for stimulating creative expression in the 1920s while a student of Neva Boyd at Chicago's Hull House. During her years as a teacher and supervisor of creative dramatics there, she began to develop her nonverbal, non-psychological approach. Her books have been translated into Swedish, German, and Portuguese.