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Quick Selection for Where

Quick Selection for Where

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation, The Where

Quick Selection for Where The Where In setting up a scene, the group will benefit from being able to quickly agree on basic set pieces in the Where. During play, more may emerge, but everyone needs a door, a window, something to sit on, etc. More than one room for...
Improv Zone 3

Improv Zone 3

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation, The Where, Verbal Agility

Gary Schwartz discusses the value of Space as the material that we use to create objects and environments. Also we touch on the concept that words may be used to prevent the direct experiencing of what the word represents and trap you in ‘story’ rather...
The Who Game

The Who Game

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Refining Awareness, The Spolin Players, The Where, Who Games

Allowing Who (relationship) to reveal itself without telling We do not want to be told who we are in this game. We want to discover it by paying attention to how our fellow player relates to us. Often this is called ‘endowment’ but too often it is done by...
Viola Spolin Discusses Her Early Work

Viola Spolin Discusses Her Early Work

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Lecture / Explanation, Refining Awareness, The Where, Viola Spolin

Viola Spolin on the Young Actors Company Viola Spolin in this rare video talks about how her work developed from directing her Young Actor’s Company in Los Angeles and the wonderful results she got from her kids by working with “Where” and with games...
Who Am I? Group Game

Who Am I? Group Game

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, The Where, Viola Spolin, Who Games

Viola Spolin coaches Who Am I? with a group Viola Spolin in this rare video does a variation of the single player version of Who Am I? by asking the group to show the player who doesn’t know who they are through relationship to that person and the where. From a...
Art Gallery

Art Gallery

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Refining Awareness, The Spolin Players, The Where, Who Games

Art Gallery Akin to Who Am I?, many often call this game “Endowment”. How it is played in current Improv training bears little resemblance to the original exercise. Players A and B. A is seated and B enters the art gallery and has given A some unusual...
Using the Where

Using the Where

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Sidecoaching, Space Objects, The Spolin Players, The Where

On Building and Using the Where “Many actors find it difficult to “reach beyond their noses” and must be freed for a wider physical relationship with the environment.” Improvisation for the Theater Most modern improv practice puts very little...
Dubbing

Dubbing

by Gary Schwartz | Oct 18, 2018 | Follow the Follower, Improv Games, Refining Awareness, The Spolin Players, The Where, Verbal Agility

Dubbing is Following the Follower The Game of Dubbing requires a warm-up of two-team mirror, follow the follower and mirror speech. This has all those earlier exercises in it, all rolled into one great, fun game. It’s easy to fall into traps. Watch to make sure...

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• No outside device is to be used during playing. All stage action must come out of what is actually happening on stage. If actors invent an outside device to create change this is avoidance of relation and the problem itself.

Invisible people, one-sided phone conversations, are examples of this. – GS

Viola Spolin is the internationally recognized originator of Theater Games – the basis of improvisational theater. Along with her son, Paul Sills, Viola Spolin created the techniques utilized by the cast of Chicago’s Second City as well as every other improvisational comedy troupe ever since.

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Gary Schwartz worked closely with Viola Spolin from 1976 – 1994, and have worked closely with members of her family during that time to the present. However, this site does not necessarily represent the views of Viola Spolin, Paul Sills and other members of her family, and has not been authorized or endorsed by them.