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“Drama can be defined as an experience that creates emotion. Drama is a collaborative group art form where people transform, act and reflect upon the human condition. In drama, people are the instruments of inquiry.” (Unknown 1998) In this review I will be discussing Viola Spolin. I will talk about her contributions, views and ideas, with regards to drama in education, the roles of students and teachers and theatre games. Theatre educator, director, and actress recognized internationally for her ‘Theatre Games’ system of actor training, was raised in a tradition of family theatre amusements, operas, and charades. While she served as a drama supervisor for the Chicago branch of the Works Progress Administration's Recreational Project, 1939-1941, Spolin saw a need for an easily grasped system of theatre training that could cross the cultural and ethnic barriers within the WPA Project. Building upon the experience of Neva Boyd's work at Chicago’s Hull House, she developed new games that focused upon individual; creativity, extension of self, motivation, adapting and focusing the concept of play to unlock the individual's capacity for creative self-expression and contact with others through space. These techniques were