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 | 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 | Oct 18, 2018 | Improv Games, Improvisation for the Theater, Lecture / Explanation, Spontaneity, Warm Up Games
Exits and Entrance – discussion Judgment and Other Blocks to Improvising The more blocked or opinionated the student, the longer the process. The more blocked and opinionated the teacher, the longer the process. My Big Breakthrough. The story I relate in this...
by Gary Schwartz | May 21, 2018 | Blog
Space Walk Commentary (from the Theater Game File Handbook by Viola Spolin: published by Northwestern University Press) Space Walks and Feeling Self with Self, more than just physical sensory and perception exercises, are organic ways of...
by Gary Schwartz | Mar 31, 2018 | Blog
“Information is a very weak form of communication” – Spolin I have been working with Spolin Games for the last thirty years. I first began in an improv comedy class learning how to be fast and funny with a group of very talented actors, who are still playing. Then, by...