The theatre games tradition is a method of training actors that was developed in the 20th century by practitioners such as Joan Littlewood, Viola Spolin, Clive Barker, Keith Johnstone, Jerzy Grotowski and Augusto Boal.
Her first and most famous was Improvisation for the Theater published by Northwestern University Press.
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Spolin was associated for many years with the Jane Adam's Hull House as well as other locations where she and her assistant teachers taught improv workshops to children.
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Viola Spolin initially trained to be a settlement worker (from 1924–1927), studying at Neva Boyd's Group Work School in Chicago.
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Modern improvisational theatre began in the classroom with the "theatre games" of Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone in the 1950s.