Reviews for At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater

The average rating for At Play: Teaching Teenagers Theater based on 2 reviews is 4.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2009-06-11 00:00:00 John Guilmet Drawing on her own experience teaching inner-city children in the groundbreaking musical Runaways and in teaching the techniques of improv theater in schools around the country, as well as on her own background in experimental theater, Swados provides a step-by-step guide to bringing out the natural creativity and enthusiasm key to young people creating'and enjoying'improvisational theater. This book is a not a book that one reads cover to cover. After reading the introduction it is easy to jump around and find exercises and techniques to use for an acting class, speech class or preparing for a play. The step by step guide is very clear and I discovered so many new ideas which were a refreshing change from the same old theatre games.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-01-06 00:00:00 Lorant Veress Make no mistake; Swados is a partisan with a mission. This book serves as a massive antidote to the tangential role that the arts play in the hierarchy of American education. Swados values the spirit of her charges and knows what theater can and must do to live up to it's responsibly. Hugely important for teachers of any stripe. For theater educators, this is the most personal account of devising original work with young people since Dorothy Heathcoate and far less technical than Jonothan Neilands. An important useful work by a true artist.