For anyone who teaches drama, this book offers 100 ideas for instruction, specifically relating to storytelling; improvisation; inventing characters and lives; and exploring the world through acting out court cases or a picture, for example. Other exercises apply to stage craft; bringing language and literature alive by dramatizing a poem or Shakespearean sonnet; media, such as acting out a TV show; and ideas for mini plays. Each idea is presented in one or two pages. There is no index or bibliography. Young has taught English at a high school for 12 years. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
