Through examples and exercises, this "workbook" shows how to stimulate workshop participants to release energy and free bodies and voices to listen, think, create, and to take risks in focused exchanges with others. Topics include getting started, improvisation, working with Shakespeare and Greek plays, playing characters, and methods to gain comfort uttering words of impersonal text. No index or references. Hahlo is an actor and teacher; Reynolds is head of the Department of Drama at the University of Surrey, Roehampton. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)