“The theater workshop can become a place where teachers and students meet as fellow players, involved with one another, ready to connect, to communicate, to experience, to respond, and to experiment and discover.”

—  Viola Spolin

Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (1986) Northwestern University Press, page 2

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American academic and acting theorist 1906–1994

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