Showing and Telling

 

Story Telling and Story Theater

This is a variation of Story Telling and Once Upon a Time, found in Improvisation for the Theater 3rd Edition (Pg. 283 & Pg. 290). It is also the roots of a unique theater style created by Paul Sills called Story Theater which used this idea and refined it in scripts as a way of presenting a theatrical telling of stories.

The players are given a well-known story or fairy tale and act it out as both narrator and actor, using space and space objects and sometimes costumes to create a staged presentation. The players in this example are Randy Brenner, Pat Herd, and Gary Schwartz. Excerpted from the Video Viola Spolin Conducts Theater Games, available in full as a video download.

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