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The Lone Actor
Northwestern University Press, 2001 Paper: 978-0-8101-4010-3 Library of Congress Classification PN2071.I5S63 2001 Dewey Decimal Classification 792.028
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The Lone Actor
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by Viola Spolin
foreword by Paul Sills
foreword by Paul Sills
Northwestern University Press, 2001
Paper: 978-0-8101-4010-3
Paper: 978-0-8101-4010-3
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Viola Spolin, 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, nonpsychological approach. Her books have been translated into Swedish, German, and Portuguese. She died in 1994.
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.
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.
REVIEWS
"It's like basic research . . . she [has] changed the theater for generatio
"Her book is the bible." --Rob Reiner
TABLE OF CONTENTS
- CONTENTS
- Foreword
- Crystal Ball
- Author's Preface
- Playing the Games
- Into Your Space
- Playing the Games
- Side Coaching Yourself
- BASIC WARM-UP EXERCISE
- FEELING SELF WITH SELF
- SIT IN SILENCE
- EXHALATION
- Space Substance
- SPACE WALK I: EXPLORATION
- SPACE WALK II: SUPPORT AND EFFORT
- SPACE SUBSTANCE: FOR HANDS
- PHYSICALIZING AN OBJECT
- BEGIN AND END WITH OBJECTS
- Where, Who, and What
- PLAYGROUND
- HOW OLD AM I?
- HOW OLD AM I? REPEAT
- EMERGING WHERE: PART I
- EMERGING WHERE: PART II
- Gibberish
- GIBBERISH/INTRODUCTION
- GIBBERISH/DEMONSTRATION
- Slow Motion
- SLOW/FAST/NORMAL
- Seeing and Not Staring
- TOUCH AND BE TOUCHED/SEE AND BE SEEN
- SEE UNLABELED
- PERIPHERAL VISION
- PENETRATION
- PENETRATING THE VISIBLE
- No Motion
- NO MOTION WARM-UP
- NO MOTION WALKING
- Speech and Sound
- EXTENDED SOUND
- SINGING DIALOGUE
- SEEING THE WORD
- SPELLING
- VOWELS AND CONSONANTS
- DEAF AUDIENCE
- Physicalizing Attitudes
- ATTITUDES: YOUR OWN
- ATTITUDES: OTHERS'
- HOLD IT
- Rounding-Out Exercises
- CAMERA
- SHADOWING
- WHAT'S BEYOND? ENTERING
- WHAT'S BEYOND? EXITING
- BEGIN AND END
- OCCLUDING
- EXITS AND ENTRANCES
- Memorization
- MEMORIZATION
- Five Obstacles to a Direct Experience
- SCORE
- Going Forth
- Suggested Games for Specific Needs
- Traditional Games
- HOW MUCH DO YOU REMEMBER?
- OBSERVATION GAME
- THREE CHANGES
- CONCENTRATION
- GHOST
- WHEN I GO TO CALIFORNIA
- MY SHIP IS COMING FROM LONDON
- GEOGRAPHY
- BUZZ
- RHYTHM
- PROVERBS
- RHYMES
- TRANSFORMATION OF WORDS
- NAME SIX
- CRAMBO, OR I'M THINKING OF A WORD
- Glossaries
- Viola's Dictionary
- Glossary of Side-Coaching Phrases
- Alphabetical List of Games
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