Performance Skills for Amateur Drama

Performance Skills for Amateur Drama is a practical guide for drama group leaders who want to improve performance skills and get the most out of group meetings. It contains dozens of fun exercises to aid group cohesion, confidence and stage technique. Includes: - Warm-ups and Ice-breakers - Concentration and Relaxation exercises - Breath control, articulation and projection - Body language and physical performance skills - Improvisation and mime These tips and techniques are drawn from over fifty years' experience both in amateur and professional theatre and will form an invaluable foundation for any group wanting to maximise the pleasure and satisfaction to be enjoyed from public performance - both for the group themselves, and their audience (Originally published in the UK as Section 3 of 'Beginners Please')