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Viola Spolin

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Viola Spolin

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American academic and acting theorist (1906–1994)

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  • Appetizers and Soups
  • Improvisation for the Theater a Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
  • Theater games for rehearsal
  • Improvisationstechniken für Pädagogik, Therapie und Theater.
  • Theater Games for the Classroom

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  • Games develop personal techniques and skills necessary for the game itself, through playing. Skills are developed at the very moment a person is having all the fun and excitement playing a game has to offer--this is the exact time one is truly open to receive them.
  • Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition.
  • It cannot be emphasized too strongly that playing can pull many a director and cast out of a tight spot, freeing all of them from the fear-producing trap of memorizing, characterizing and interpreting. This playing draws upon a very important, almost forgotten, little understood or utilized, and greatly maligned life-giving force --- passion!

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date of death
1994-11-22
date of birth
1906-11-07
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