Theatre Games for Young Performers

A junior high drama coach wants to find a way to communicate to students the joy that acting can be. Across town, a youth ministry director wants to teach a group of teenagers some fundamentals of acting to perpare them to stage a comedy revue to raise funds for the church's youth activity treasury.

What both of them need is a proven way to put even more fun into the process of learning how to act. Teacher Maria C. Novelly offers youth leaders plenty of help in her book, Theatre Games for Young Performers.

This book gives youth leaders: (1) information and ideas to reach sixth- through tenth-graders at their intellectual eye level; (2) wake-'em-up, imagination-expanding exercises adaptable to any subject or theme; (3) samles of worksheets for organizing students' work on specific dramatic skills; and (4) help in adapting acting lessons to drama class, English class, histoy class, church discussion group, Scout troop meetings, etc.