David Farmer

101 Drama Games and Activities David Farmer 2nd edition

Marc Notes: Foreword by David Wood--Cover.; Includes bibliographical references (p. 81) and index. Publisher Marketing: 101 highly effective games and exercises suitable for use in drama lessons, workshops or rehearsals with children, young people or adults. Chapters include improvisation, mime, ice-breakers, group dynamics, rehearsal, story-telling, voice and warm-ups. This unique book has been developed by a professional theatre director through workshops and training with actors, teachers and children around the world. Foreword by David Wood, OBE. 'Belongs amongst the top 10 books any director or drama teacher should own.' - English Touring Opera. 'I am always on the look out for resources that will help me in the studio and this book is perfect! The language used is straightforward and the instructions are easy to follow.' - Bernadette Collins, UK. 'I have to thank you for providing the most creative resources I have ever seen to educate and entertain young children.' - Matt Brown, Milwaukee, USA. Contributor Bio:  Farmer, David David Farmer discovered drama games while training to be a teacher and is still happily playing them forty years later. He left teaching to set up a theatre company which became one of the leading lights of British theatre-in-education. He honed his craft through 25 years of touring plays to children and young people across the UK, Europe and North America in theatres, at festivals and in schools. Now he shares his ideas through books, workshops and a leading drama website. As well as running his own courses in London, he delivers training for schools, arts organisations and language schools in the UK and internationally.