Thanks and acknowledgements x
Introduction 1(204)
1 Getting ready 6(32)
Non-verbal warming-up activities 7(11)
1.1 Handshakes 7(1)
1.2 Hand catching 8(1)
1.3 Mirror hands 9(2)
1.4 Numbers in your head 11(1)
1.5 Clap around the circle 12(1)
1.6 Swings 13(2)
1.7 Catch the ball 15(1)
1.8 Beat out that rhythm 16(1)
1.9 Touch it 17(1)
1.10 Blind 17(1)
Non-verbal cooling-down activities 18(8)
1.11 Breathing 18(1)
1.12 Feeling my space 19(1)
1.13 Feeling your muscles 20(1)
1.14 From seed to plant 21(1)
1.15 Slow motion 21(1)
1.16 Just relax 22(1)
1.17 Directed relaxation 23(1)
1.18 Going with the flow 24(2)
Verbal exercises 26(9)
1.19 Football wave 26(1)
1.20 Can you do this? 27(1)
1.21 The sun and the moon 27(1)
1.22 Back writing 28(1)
1.23 Gobbledy-gook 29(1)
1.24 And I"m a butcher 30(1)
1.25 Let me tell you something about X 30(1)
1.26 Something in common 31(1)
1.27 Directed group visualisation 32(1)
1.28 Childhood memories 33(1)
1.29 Personalities/celebrities 34(1)
Group formation activities 35(3)
1.30 Strings 35(1)
1.31 Atom 3! 36(1)
1.32 Mix and mingle 36(1)
1.33 I"ve got my eye on you! 36(1)
1.34 I know what I like 37(1)
2 Observation 38(12)
2.1 Freeze! 38(1)
2.2 Back-to-back 39(1)
2.3 Say "Cheese" 40(1)
2.4 Just listening 40(1)
2.5 I said, he said, she said... 41(1)
2.6 Minimal differences 42(1)
2.7 My potato 43(1)
2.8 Kim"s game 44(1)
2.9 Familiar scenes 45(1)
2.10 Like me? Like you? 46(1)
2.11 First this, then that... 47(1)
2.12. Picture memory 48(2)
3 Working with mime 50(19)
3.1 What am I doing? 50(3)
3.2 My word 53(1)
3.3 Metronome mime 54(1)
3.4 Difficulty with large or small objects 55(1)
3.5 Exchanging objects 56(1)
3.6 Taste, touch, smell... 57(2)
3.7 What time of day is it? 59(1)
3.8 Mimes from the past 60(1)
3.9 Miming a poem 61(2)
3.10 Miming noises 63(1)
3.11 Normal, slow, fast 64(2)
3.12. Hotel receptionist 66(3)
4 Working with the voice 69(30)
Preparing for voicework 69(10)
4.1 Relaxation 70(1)
4.2. Physical warm ups 71(2)
4.3 Breathing 73(2)
4.4 Warming up the voice 75(2)
4.5 Preparing the articulators 77(1)
4.6 Volume 78(1)
Working with the voice 79(20)
4.7 Thinking about my voice 79(2)
4.8 Changing voices 81(2)
4.9 Delayed repetition 83(1)
4.10 Working on words 84(1)
4.11 A vocal tapestry 85(2)
4.12. Shifting the stress 87(1)
4.13 Listing 88(1)
4.14 Elastic sentences 89(3)
4.15 Playing with the text 92(3)
4.16 Listen to me! 95(1)
4.17 Group orchestration of texts 96(3)
5 Working with objects 99(17)
5.1 What am I holding? 99(2)
5.2 My special object, your special object... 101(1)
5.3 Metamorphosis 102(1)
5.4 The envelope 103(1)
5.5 The all-purpose object 104(1)
5.6 Stone, wood and metal 105(2)
5.7 It meant a lot to me... 107(1)
5.8 Fashion show 107(1)
5.9 Where did you get that hat? 108(2)
5.10 Masks 110(1)
5.11 What am I bid? 111(2)
5.12. Symbols and icons 113(1)
5.13 Who"s the owner? 114(2)
6 Working with visuals 116(29)
6.1 Self-portraits 116(2)
6.2 Identikit 118(1)
6.3 From my album 119(1)
6.4 Space invaders 120(3)
6.5 High points 123(1)
6.6 Portraits 124(2)
6.7 Becoming a picture 126(1)
6.8 Bringing a picture to life 127(2)
6.9 Picture sets 129(1)
6.10 Faces and places 130(1)
6.11 Split cartoons 131(4)
6.12 Mood pictures 135(1)
6.13 Pictures from music 136(2)
6.14 Recreating the scene 138(1)
6.15 Guided visualisation 139(3)
6.16 Characters from fiction 142(3)
7 Working with the imagination 145(15)
7.1 Something in common 145(1)
7.2 Statues 146(1)
7.3 Amazimbi 147(2)
7.4 Patent pending 149(1)
7.5 Making a machine 150(2)
7.6 Waking dream 152(1)
7.7 Festival 153(1)
7.8 It"s against the law 154(2)
7.9 Time"s arrow 156(1)
7.10 Our new constitution 157(3)
8 Working from/into words, phrases, sentences 160(29)
8.1 My favourite word 160(1)
8.2 The feel of words 161(2)
8.3 Real English or not? 163(2)
8.4 What"s in a name? 165(1)
8.5 Words and movement 166(2)
8.6 Tableaux 168(1)
8.7 Praise songs 169(1)
8.8 Group story 170(1)
8.9 Off the cuff 171(1)
8.10 Mirror words 172(2)
8.11 Charades 174(1)
8.12 Split headlines 175(2)
8.13 Split exchanges 177(3)
8.14 People, places, problems and things 180(2)
8.15 Odd news 182(2)
8.16 Proverbs in action 184(2)
8.17 First lines 186(3)
9 Working from/into texts 189(16)
9.1 Mini-texts 189(5)
9.2 What next? 192.
9.3 Starters 194(2)
9.4 Tops and tails 196(2)
9.5 Jumbled stories 198(2)
9.6 What are they saying? 200(2)
9.7 Stop press 202(3)
10 Working from/into scenarios and scripts 205(24)
10.1 One-word dialogues 205(2)
10.2 Dialogue interpretation 207(2)
10.3 Alibi 209(1)
10.4 Just a minute 210(3)
10.5 Telephone conversations 213(3)
1o.6 Conflict 216(2)
10.7 Tension 218(2)
10.8 The hole 220(2)
10.9 Role reversal 222(2)
10.10 A real bargain 224(2)
10.11 Real theatre scripts 226(3)
11 Into Performance 229(11)
Benefits from performance 229(1)
How to tackle the "Play project" 230(1)
Selecting a play 230(2)
Getting to know the text 232(2)
Warming up 234(1)
Improvisation 234(1)
Rehearsal 235(2)
Involving everyone 237(1)
A few practical considerations 238(1)
Some possible sources for plays 239(1)
Bibliography 240(4)
Index 244