by Gary Schwartz | Feb 17, 2021 | Blog
“I don’t believe in success and failure.” – Viola Spolin. We all approach new things with some trepidation. I’ve been told by new students that they are there in the workshop because Improv terrifies them and they want to face that fear. Bravo to them for their...
by Gary Schwartz | Nov 2, 2020 | Blog
The Innovators From Dramatics Magazine 2010-09-09 Viola Spolin – Jeffrey Sweet, author of Something Wonderful Right Away – an Oral History of Second City and The Compass Players Young Viola Spolin wanted to be an actress. She left her home in Chicago and went to New...
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 | Jan 25, 2020 | Games, Improv Games, Improvisation for the Theater, Refining Awareness, Viola Spolin
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...
by Gary Schwartz | Sep 17, 2019 | Blog
The Group Games Model of Learning by Gary Schwartz Games are a natural group form. They provide personal, wholehearted, unselfconscious involvement in activities that allow us to feel free to absorb and integrate our experiences and add them to our growing knowledge...
