“Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition.”

—  Viola Spolin

Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (1986) Northwestern University Press, page 3

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American academic and acting theorist 1906–1994

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