| Thanks and acknowledgements | p. x |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| Getting ready | p. 6 |
| Non-verbal warming-up activities | p. 7 |
| Handshakes | p. 7 |
| Hand catching | p. 8 |
| Mirror hands | p. 9 |
| Numbers in your head | p. 11 |
| Clap around the circle | p. 12 |
| Swings | p. 13 |
| Catch the ball | p. 15 |
| Beat out that rhythm | p. 16 |
| Touch it | p. 17 |
| Blind | p. 17 |
| Non-verbal cooling-down activities | p. 18 |
| Breathing | p. 18 |
| Feeling my space | p. 19 |
| Feeling your muscles | p. 20 |
| From seed to plant | p. 21 |
| Slow motion | p. 21 |
| Just relax | p. 22 |
| Directed relaxation | p. 23 |
| Going with the flow | p. 24 |
| Verbal exercises | p. 26 |
| Football wave | p. 26 |
| Can you do this? | p. 27 |
| The sun and the moon | p. 27 |
| Back writing | p. 28 |
| Gobbledy-gook | p. 29 |
| And I'm a butcher | p. 30 |
| Let me tell you something about X | p. 30 |
| Something in common | p. 31 |
| Directed group visualisation | p. 32 |
| Childhood memories | p. 33 |
| Personalities/celebrities | p. 34 |
| Group formation activities | p. 35 |
| Strings | p. 35 |
| Atom 3! | p. 36 |
| Mix and mingle | p. 36 |
| I've got my eye on you! | p. 36 |
| I know what I like | p. 37 |
| Observation | p. 38 |
| Freeze! | p. 38 |
| Back-to-back | p. 39 |
| Say `Cheese' | p. 40 |
| Just listening | p. 40 |
| I said, he said, she said... | p. 41 |
| Minimal differences | p. 42 |
| My potato | p. 43 |
| Kim's game | p. 44 |
| Familiar scenes | p. 45 |
| Like me? Like you? | p. 46 |
| First this, then that... | p. 47 |
| Picture memory | p. 48 |
| Working with mime | p. 50 |
| What am I doing? | p. 50 |
| My word | p. 53 |
| Metronome mime | p. 54 |
| Difficulty with large or small objects | p. 55 |
| Exchanging objects | p. 56 |
| Taste, touch, smell... | p. 57 |
| What time of day is it? | p. 59 |
| Mimes from the past | p. 60 |
| Miming a poem | p. 61 |
| Miming noises | p. 63 |
| Normal, slow, fast | p. 64 |
| Hotel receptionist | p. 66 |
| Working with the voice | p. 69 |
| Preparing for voicework | p. 69 |
| Relaxation | p. 70 |
| Physical warm ups | p. 71 |
| Breathing | p. 73 |
| Warming up the voice | p. 75 |
| Preparing the articulators | p. 77 |
| Volume | p. 78 |
| Working with the voice | p. 79 |
| Thinking about my voice | p. 79 |
| Changing voices | p. 81 |
| Delayed repetition | p. 83 |
| Working on words | p. 84 |
| A vocal tapestry | p. 85 |
| Shifting the stress | p. 87 |
| Listing | p. 88 |
| Elastic sentences | p. 89 |
| Playing with the text | p. 92 |
| Listen to me! | p. 95 |
| Group orchestration of texts | p. 96 |
| Working with objects | p. 99 |
| What am I holding? | p. 99 |
| My special object, your special object... | p. 101 |
| Metamorphosis | p. 102 |
| The envelope | p. 103 |
| The all-purpose object | p. 104 |
| Stone, wood and metal | p. 105 |
| It meant a lot to me... | p. 107 |
| Fashion show | p. 107 |
| Where did you get that hat? | p. 108 |
| Masks | p. 110 |
| What am I bid? | p. 111 |
| Symbols and icons | p. 113 |
| Who's the owner? | p. 114 |
| Working with visuals | p. 116 |
| Self-portraits | p. 116 |
| Identikit | p. 118 |
| From my album | p. 119 |
| Space invaders | p. 120 |
| High points | p. 123 |
| Portraits | p. 124 |
| Becoming a picture | p. 126 |
| Bringing a picture to life | p. 127 |
| Picture sets | p. 129 |
| Faces and places | p. 130 |
| Split cartoons | p. 131 |
| Mood pictures | p. 135 |
| Pictures from music | p. 136 |
| Recreating the scene | p. 138 |
| Guided visualisation | p. 139 |
| Characters from fiction | p. 142 |
| Working with the imagination | p. 145 |
| Something in common | p. 145 |
| Statues | p. 146 |
| Amazimbi | p. 147 |
| Patent pending | p. 149 |
| Making a machine | p. 150 |
| Waking dream | p. 152 |
| Festival | p. 153 |
| It's against the law | p. 154 |
| Time's arrow | p. 156 |
| Our new constitution | p. 157 |
| Working from/into words, phrases, sentences | p. 160 |
| My favourite word | p. 160 |
| The feel of words | p. 161 |
| Real English or not? | p. 163 |
| What's in a name? | p. 165 |
| Words and movement | p. 166 |
| Tableaux | p. 168 |
| Praise songs | p. 169 |
| Group story | p. 170 |
| Off the cuff | p. 171 |
| Mirror words | p. 172 |
| Charades | p. 174 |
| Split headlines | p. 175 |
| Split exchanges | p. 177 |
| People, places, problems and things | p. 180 |
| Odd news | p. 182 |
| Proverbs in action | p. 184 |
| First lines | p. 186 |
| Working from/into texts | p. 189 |
| Mini-texts | p. 189 |
| What next? | p. 192 |
| Starters | p. 194 |
| Tops and tails | p. 196 |
| Jumbled stories | p. 198 |
| What are they saying? | p. 200 |
| Stop press | p. 202 |
| Working from/into scenarios and scripts | p. 205 |
| One-word dialogues | p. 205 |
| Dialogue interpretation | p. 207 |
| Alibi | p. 209 |
| Just a minute | p. 210 |
| Telephone conversations | p. 213 |
| Conflict | p. 216 |
| Tension | p. 218 |
| The hole | p. 220 |
| Role reversal | p. 222 |
| A real bargain | p. 224 |
| Real theatre scripts | p. 226 |
| Into Performance | p. 229 |
| Benefits from performance | p. 229 |
| How to tackle the 'Play project' | p. 230 |
| Selecting a play | p. 230 |
| Getting to know the text | p. 232 |
| Warming up | p. 234 |
| Improvisation | p. 234 |
| Rehearsal | p. 235 |
| Involving everyone | p. 237 |
| A few practical considerations | p. 238 |
| Some possible sources for plays | p. 239 |
| Bibliography | p. 240 |
| Index | p. 244 |
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