In her introduction to this excellent anthology of games and exercises Samantha Marsden includes a welcome to teachers who have never taught drama before. Two paragraphs later she describes how professional, working actors can benefit from the book. This demonstrates the remarkable ambition of this book, which will surely sit alongside Jessica Swale's Drama Games for Classrooms and Workshops as a classroom staple.
Divided into ten clear chapters (Voice, Movement, Bringing the Text to Life, and so on) the exercises are neatly articulated. Alongside simple instructions are listed an ideal age group, the aims for each exercise, and the skills tested, making lesson planning easier, while an excellent index cross-references the skills by activity.
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