Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook
For the first time, a Spolin guide for the individual actor to side-coach themselves

Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. This handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Building on her seminal Improvisation for the Theater, Spolin challenges the actor to develop an ability to enter present time, “a moment of full consciousness, awareness, continuous time, a timeless moment…with all of your responses awake and alert, ready to guide you… allowing you, the real you, your natural self, to emerge." 

Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.
 

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Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook
For the first time, a Spolin guide for the individual actor to side-coach themselves

Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. This handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Building on her seminal Improvisation for the Theater, Spolin challenges the actor to develop an ability to enter present time, “a moment of full consciousness, awareness, continuous time, a timeless moment…with all of your responses awake and alert, ready to guide you… allowing you, the real you, your natural self, to emerge." 

Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.
 

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Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook

Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook

Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook

Theater Games for the Lone Actor: A Handbook

Overview

For the first time, a Spolin guide for the individual actor to side-coach themselves

Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Lone Actor offers theater games and side coaching for the solo player. This handbook presents more than forty exercises that allow actors to side coach themselves at home, in rehearsal, or in performance. Building on her seminal Improvisation for the Theater, Spolin challenges the actor to develop an ability to enter present time, “a moment of full consciousness, awareness, continuous time, a timeless moment…with all of your responses awake and alert, ready to guide you… allowing you, the real you, your natural self, to emerge." 

Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the nature and practice of modern theater. Her work has inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, and film. Her techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.
 

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780810140103
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Publication date: 09/12/2001
Edition description: 1
Pages: 189
Product dimensions: 4.38(w) x 7.00(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

VIOLA SPOLIN (1906-1994), the originator of theater games, was introduced to the use of games, storytelling, folk dance, and dramatics as tools for stimulating creative expression in the 1920s while a student of Neva Boyd at Chicago's Hull House. During her years as a teacher and supervisor of creative dramatics there, she began to develop her nonverbal, non-psychological approach. Her books have been translated into Swedish, German, and Portuguese. 

PAUL SILLS is Viola Spolin's son and the founding director of Chicago's Second City and of Story Theater. He is the coeditor of the third edition of Spolin's Improvisation for the Theater, also published by Northwestern University Press.
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