Tag: Keith Johnstone

Liam Nesson in “Taken,” For Instance

If you think of something you wouldn’t want to happen to you, or to someone you love, then you’ll have thought of something worth staging or filming.–Keith Johnstone, Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre In Defense…

Greta

Garbo had a stand-in who was identical to her, and who was said to have ‘everything that Garbo has except whatever it is Garbo has’. What Garbo had was a body that transmitted and received. It…

Personality

“Our social personality is a creation of the thoughts of other people.” –Marcel Proust, Swann’s Way “It’s very refreshing to shed the personality thrust on you by other people.” –Keith Johnstone, Impro  

A Class This Spring: Improv Wisdom

There are people who prefer to say “Yes,” and there are people who prefer to say “No.” Those who say “Yes” are rewarded by the adventures they have, and those who say “No” are rewarded…