This new book provides a clear and accessible guide on best practice to support teachers when using process drama in establishing creative learning partnerships with their students. It offers a detailed analysis and explores the roles of actor, director and playwright that the teacher must adopt in order to develop the `thinking on your feet' skills and knowledge necessary to deliver a complete process drama experience.


Addressing the dynamic nature of process drama, it provides a clear and rigorous explanation of the theory of process drama and links it to practice. Drawing on a wide range of detailed examples from the authors' international and cross-cultural practice, it demonstrates how an effective process drama operates in action.


Written to help practitioners and students produce powerful, artistic and educative experiences, chapters cover:








pedagogy and the improvised nature of the art form;







the structural framework and making shifts in the drama;







the role of actor, director, playwright and teacher;







monitoring emotional range;







progression and the importance of reflection;







the spiral of creativ