improvisation (acting)

A sourcebook of techniques designed to develop improvisational skills in young actors.

Describes 112 games designed to help students develop acting skills, covering relaxation, body awareness, characterization, action and reaction, performance, and fifteen other categories.

Provides workshop activities and dramatic sketches for student actors.

Presents eleven folk tales with directions for organizing dramatic improvisations of each story.

Presents a rationale for using theater games with young performers, and features exercises and games designed to help aspiring actors develop skills in pantomime, improvisation, character development, and voice and body control.

Provides fifty creative, improvisational scenarios appropriate for sixth through twelfth-grade students, encouraging creativity, self-reliance, and analytical skills; and includes follow-up questions for each skit and tips to motivate students.

Examines the basics of improvisation; offers advice on teaching improvisation to children. including rules and tips for beginners; provides over one hundred games for beginning, intermediate, and advanced actors; describes some advanced improvisation techniques; and offers guidelines for creating a successful improvisation show.

Contains theatre games, scenes, and improvisations for classrooms or workshops designed to help the actor and director learn, explore, and develop working with various techniques.