by Gary Schwartz | Aug 22, 2021 | Games, Giberish, Improv Games, Spontaneity, The Spolin Players
Fluency with Gibberish and Verbal Agility One player goes out. Audience co-creates a story. The focus is for one player to tell that story in gibberish to the returning player. The player who does not know this story must translate each part of the gibberish story...
by Gary Schwartz | Apr 15, 2021 | Blog
The Trouble with Yes, and… Written by Gary Schwartz “Information is a very weak form of communication” – Viola 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...
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 | Dec 3, 2017 | Blog
“Creativity is not the clever rearranging of the known.” – Viola Spolin Creativity is a state that allows us to touch the unknown and to bring it into the phenomenal world: To make the invisible visible. The unknown is a territory that holds all possibilities, until...
by Gary Schwartz | Sep 15, 2017 | Blog
This comes from writer / performer Eva Moon. Improv as a Tool for Writers By Eva Moon One of the pleasures of writing fiction is falling in love with the characters you create – and then torturing the hell out of them. Bringing them to life and uncovering...
