Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography
Autor Theresa Robbins Dudecken Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 aug 2013
Theresa Robbins Dudeck is the first author to rigorously examine Johnstone's life and career using a combination of archival documents - many from Johnstone's personal collection - participant observation, and interviews with Johnstone, his colleagues and former students.
Keith Johnstone: A Critical Biography is a fascinating journey through the physical spaces that have served as Johnstone's transformative classrooms, and into the conceptual spaces which inform his radical pedagogy and approach to artistic work.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781408183274
ISBN-10: 1408183277
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 47 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1408183277
Pagini: 232
Ilustrații: 47 halftones
Dimensiuni: 156 x 234 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.33 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Methuen Drama
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
1 Introducing Keith Johnstone and his Impro System
2 The formative years
First forays in teaching
Waiting for Godot
The Royal Court Theatre - A 'School' for playwrights
Samuel Beckett - An arranged meeting
Sunday Night productions without décor
The Writers' Group
Eleven Men Dead at Hola Camp - An improvised dramatic protest
Johnstone as a Royal Court Theatre director
Court politics
The Knack
3 All the world is a classroom
The Royal Court Theatre Studio
Clowning
Johnstone's last season at the Royal Court
The Performing Giant
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
The Theatre Machine
Johnstone teaches beyond Britain
Theatre Machine back at the Court and Johnstone's courtship
Johnstone and Eugenio Barba
The Last Bird in Copenhagen
Emigration
4 The master teacher in the university classroom
O Canada! Johnstone's new hom
Johnstone's first staging of Godot
The University of Calgary
Drama 200 and Drama 300
Vakhtangov and Zen
Teacher-student interaction
Production work at the University of Calgary
Live Snakes and Ladders
Johnstone's legacy at the University of Calgary
5 From classroom to world stage: The Loose Moose Theatre Company
The Loose Moose Theatre Company
Beginning of Theatresports
Waiting for Godot and The Last Bird again
Theatresports Tournaments and The Loose Moose Hamlet
Loose Moose finds a home
A Pinteresque season
Bustling and broke
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Loose Moose moves forward
Impro and Theatresports in Sweden
Festival of Fools in New York and treated like fools in Quebec
Back home
Beginning of Life Game and other formats
Out of debt but no recognition
(Re)Teaching Theatresports
Conflict and closure - Beyond and within; Transitions
The Loose Moose today
6 What now? What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Johnstone - The reluctant guru
Johnstone's international workshops - Ideal for who?
What may (or may not) happen in a Johnstone workshop
Improbable's Life Game and Rebecca Northan's Blind Date
Impro hot on stages and in classrooms of Latin America
Impro beyond the theatre classroom
What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Bibliography
Index
2 The formative years
First forays in teaching
Waiting for Godot
The Royal Court Theatre - A 'School' for playwrights
Samuel Beckett - An arranged meeting
Sunday Night productions without décor
The Writers' Group
Eleven Men Dead at Hola Camp - An improvised dramatic protest
Johnstone as a Royal Court Theatre director
Court politics
The Knack
3 All the world is a classroom
The Royal Court Theatre Studio
Clowning
Johnstone's last season at the Royal Court
The Performing Giant
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
The Theatre Machine
Johnstone teaches beyond Britain
Theatre Machine back at the Court and Johnstone's courtship
Johnstone and Eugenio Barba
The Last Bird in Copenhagen
Emigration
4 The master teacher in the university classroom
O Canada! Johnstone's new hom
Johnstone's first staging of Godot
The University of Calgary
Drama 200 and Drama 300
Vakhtangov and Zen
Teacher-student interaction
Production work at the University of Calgary
Live Snakes and Ladders
Johnstone's legacy at the University of Calgary
5 From classroom to world stage: The Loose Moose Theatre Company
The Loose Moose Theatre Company
Beginning of Theatresports
Waiting for Godot and The Last Bird again
Theatresports Tournaments and The Loose Moose Hamlet
Loose Moose finds a home
A Pinteresque season
Bustling and broke
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Loose Moose moves forward
Impro and Theatresports in Sweden
Festival of Fools in New York and treated like fools in Quebec
Back home
Beginning of Life Game and other formats
Out of debt but no recognition
(Re)Teaching Theatresports
Conflict and closure - Beyond and within; Transitions
The Loose Moose today
6 What now? What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Johnstone - The reluctant guru
Johnstone's international workshops - Ideal for who?
What may (or may not) happen in a Johnstone workshop
Improbable's Life Game and Rebecca Northan's Blind Date
Impro hot on stages and in classrooms of Latin America
Impro beyond the theatre classroom
What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Bibliography
Index
Recenzii
The book succeeds as an illuminating companion to Johnstone's writing and for anyone who wants to add to their understanding of how to improvise ... This is a living history and one which is required reading for anyone who has ever improvised and wants to know the pedagogical philosophy and principles ... An invaluable and inspiring insight into the influences and experiences that have shaped an unsung genius of twentieth-century theatre
[Dudeck's] aim of balancing scholarship with accessibility is ably achieved in this unsentimental critical biography that greatly enriches our understanding of the system, and its enigmatic creator and, crucially, the pedagogic principles that drive both.
As a whole, Dudeck's biography provides a balanced and thorough critique of one of the most under-recognized theatre practitioners of the twentieth century. Ideal for both Impro veterans and novices of spontaneity, this text will serve as an infinitely useful supplement to Johnstone's own texts and other historical accounts of improvisational theory and practice.
Keith Johnstone has unlocked the potential for human creativity more than anyone else that I've encountered. And his ideas are still a radical challenge to what it means to educate or be educated. So it's great to finally have a book that lays out Keith's ideas and puts them in the context of his life and times. Essential reading for artists, teachers or anyone who wants to be more fully alive.
Chronicling the mind and works of one of the great teachers of our age is no small task. Prof. Dudeck has given us a window into the world of Keith Johnstone's life and pedagogy. Attending Keith's workshops opened new vistas in social psychology for me decades ago . . . and his original views on status have become foundational ideas in the social sciences. I rejoice that readers of all ages can now stand in his classroom.
Keith Johnstone is so off-the-charts original and creative it's hard to express. He taught me more about secret human behaviors, status transactions, and how to employ them in my work than any other person in my life, with startling results. This book is a noteworthy contribution to the knowledge of this rare and wonderful man and is to be snatched up and digested immediately!
Whether it's devising with Improbable, improvising with the Comedy Store Players, or directing at the Metropolitan Opera, every aspect of my work is profoundly influenced by Keith Johnstone's teaching. In this book, Dudeck offers a frank, inspiring account of Keith's path, articulates the deeply held passions at the centre of his methodology, and situates Keith and his work in its proper place: at the heart and creative wellspring of modern theatre.
[Dudeck's] aim of balancing scholarship with accessibility is ably achieved in this unsentimental critical biography that greatly enriches our understanding of the system, and its enigmatic creator and, crucially, the pedagogic principles that drive both.
As a whole, Dudeck's biography provides a balanced and thorough critique of one of the most under-recognized theatre practitioners of the twentieth century. Ideal for both Impro veterans and novices of spontaneity, this text will serve as an infinitely useful supplement to Johnstone's own texts and other historical accounts of improvisational theory and practice.
Keith Johnstone has unlocked the potential for human creativity more than anyone else that I've encountered. And his ideas are still a radical challenge to what it means to educate or be educated. So it's great to finally have a book that lays out Keith's ideas and puts them in the context of his life and times. Essential reading for artists, teachers or anyone who wants to be more fully alive.
Chronicling the mind and works of one of the great teachers of our age is no small task. Prof. Dudeck has given us a window into the world of Keith Johnstone's life and pedagogy. Attending Keith's workshops opened new vistas in social psychology for me decades ago . . . and his original views on status have become foundational ideas in the social sciences. I rejoice that readers of all ages can now stand in his classroom.
Keith Johnstone is so off-the-charts original and creative it's hard to express. He taught me more about secret human behaviors, status transactions, and how to employ them in my work than any other person in my life, with startling results. This book is a noteworthy contribution to the knowledge of this rare and wonderful man and is to be snatched up and digested immediately!
Whether it's devising with Improbable, improvising with the Comedy Store Players, or directing at the Metropolitan Opera, every aspect of my work is profoundly influenced by Keith Johnstone's teaching. In this book, Dudeck offers a frank, inspiring account of Keith's path, articulates the deeply held passions at the centre of his methodology, and situates Keith and his work in its proper place: at the heart and creative wellspring of modern theatre.