Paul Sills tells an anecdote about how Viola Spolin began writing her book.
Paul Sills tells an anecdote about how Viola Spolin began writing her book.
Ad-libbing and wordiness during the solving of problems constitutes withdrawal from the problem, the environment, and each other. Verbaliz¬ing becomes an abstraction from total organic response and is used in place of contact to obscure the self, and when cleverly done, this is difficult to catch. Dialogue, on the other hand, is simply a further expression of a total human communication (connection) on-stage.