Are you a drama student looking for other ways to practice in your
field? Perhaps you teach drama students or as a teacher want to
enliven your lessons. Are you an actor who wants to diversify your
role repertoire? Are you a therapist who uses active approaches to
promote your clients' creative potentials? Maybe you want to be
involved in a meaningful form of social action? This is the book
for you!
Thirty-two innovators share their approaches to interactive and
improvisational drama, applied theatre, and performance, for
education, therapy, recreation, community-building, and personal
empowerment.You are holding the only book that covers the full
range of dynamic methods that expand the theatre arts into new
settings. There are approaches that don't require memorizing
scripts or mounting expensive productions. Dramatic engagement
should be recognized as addressing a far broader purpose.
There are ways that are playful, and types of non-scripted drama
in which the audience become co-actors. This present book is
unique in offering ways for participants to become more
spontaneous and involved.
