Where if you're in a universe where you have to accept ideas, you'll never know if your partner wanted the garbage you're handing them. They have to take it.
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person wo… - Keith Johnstone
Good improvisers seem telepathic; everything looks pre-arranged, This is because they accept all offers made—which is something no ‘normal’ person wo…
- Keith Johnstone
The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination. - Keith Johnstone
The improviser has to understand that his first skill lies in releasing his partner’s imagination.
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe. - Keith Johnstone
Imagination is as effortless as perception, unless we think it might be ‘wrong’, which is what our education encourages us to believe.
If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else. - Keith Johnstone
If you have a good idea, open your mouth and say something else.
None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public. - Keith Johnstone
None of us really grow up. All we ever do is learn how to behave in public.
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied chil… - Keith Johnstone
Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more 'respectful' teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied chil…
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of… - Keith Johnstone
Suppose Mozart had tried to be original? It would have been like a man at the North Pole trying to walk north, and this is true of all of the rest of…
The best laughs are on the recognition of truth. - Keith Johnstone
The best laughs are on the recognition of truth.
In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try … - Keith Johnstone
In a scene [where the improvisers must interact] without the letter S, the audience is waiting for you to lose - so they can laugh at you. Don't try …
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