Adam MD Blatner
Are you a drama student looking for other ways to practice in yourfield? Perhaps you teach drama students or as a teacher want toenliven your lessons. Are you an actor who wants to diversify yourrole repertoire? Are you a therapist who uses active approaches topromote your clients’ creative potentials? Maybe you want to beinvolved in a meaningful form of social action? This is the bookfor you!Thirty-two innovators share their approaches to interactive andimprovisational drama, applied theatre, and performance, foreducation, therapy, recreation, community-building, and personalempowerment.You are holding the only book that covers the fullrange of dynamic methods that expand the theatre arts into newsettings. There are approaches that don’t require memorizingscripts or mounting expensive productions. Dramatic engagementshould be recognized as addressing a far broader purpose.There are ways that are playful, and types of non-scripted dramain which the audience become co-actors. This present book isunique in offering ways for participants to become morespontaneous and involved. 3
