by Gary Schwartz | Oct 9, 2020 | Games, Warm Up Games
Name 6 is a great warm-up game to encourage ‘fun under pressure’. Everyone stands in a circle and one person has a bean-bag or other object to be used as a ‘hot potato’. The person designated as IT turns their back so they cannot see where the...
by Gary Schwartz | Jun 25, 2020 | Blog
Tales of Viola Spolin Written by Gary Schwartz on January 12, 2012. “Poor me. Nobody loves me.” Underneath my cheerful facade, underneath my very well developed sense of humor, I walked around Hollywood with that deeply embedded in my soul. I was working as a...
by Gary Schwartz | Jun 16, 2020 | Blog
From Spolin’s Games to Improv Today Religion began with a single purpose; to connect humanity to the spiritual. Ever since its conception, religion has evolved and morphed. Some say it has been refined and some say redefined and re-interpreted. Nonetheless, it has...
by Gary Schwartz | May 13, 2020 | Refining Awareness, The Spolin Players
The focus here is on what has happened in the past or what will happen in the future: Two players agree upon a Who, What and Where and explore this What on stage. They ‘hold’ the What’s Beyone as the focus between them, while the players are involved...
by Gary Schwartz | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog
Becoming Part of the Whole contrasted with Yes, and… Improvisation today concerns itself with connection, but it is mostly a connection of common ideas and shared references. Yes, and… is not wholly without merit, for in many cases collaboration of this sort can...
