Dorothy Heathcote is an unrivalled expert on improvisatic in drama. Through her charismatic visits to drama centres, and her controversial appearances on television, her influence has spread from the Newcastle Institute of Education to every part of the world. For those teachers who have never witnessed on of Dorothy Heathcote's drama sessions, this book converts the unique quality of her teaching into highly practical advice. This is the only book that has yet been published on Heathcote's techniques, and do drama department in school or college can afford to be without it. This is a good book about an extremely difficult but immensely rewarding subject, one worthy of attention from all educationalists. Reading it for a second time in order to prepare this review I was impressed again at the devoted work the author has undertaken and at the excellence of the picture she draws.