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 | Oct 9, 2020 | Games, Improv Games, Refining Awareness, The Spolin Players, Who Games
FOCUS On holding a facial and bodily expression through a scene. Description Choose a short statement that could embody a ‘life script’ or attitude such as “Nobody loves me.”, “I never met a person I didn’t like.”, “Life...
by Gary Schwartz | Oct 9, 2020 | Games, Warm Up Games
Name 6 is a great warm-up game to encourage ‘fun under pressure’. Everyone stands in a circle and one person has a bean-bag or other object to be used as a ‘hot potato’. The person designated as IT turns their back so they cannot see where the...
by Gary Schwartz | Apr 10, 2020 | Blog
Becoming Part of the Whole contrasted with Yes, and… Improvisation today concerns itself with connection, but it is mostly a connection of common ideas and shared references. Yes, and… is not wholly without merit, for in many cases collaboration of this sort can...
by Gary Schwartz | Jan 29, 2020 | Blog
SPACE: Something about which we know very little; the stage area where a reality can be placed; space can be used to shape the realities we create; an area of no boundaries; without limits; the player uses space to bring reality into the phenomenal world; to make...
