ABSTRACT
Improvisation is the key to creativity. Improvisation is one of the actor’s most important ways of bringing new moments, situations and atmospheres into play.
Yet just the word ‘improvisation’ strikes fear into the hearts of so many actors. It is because the word is used too generally, meaning too many things. It is also because the actor is usually not trained to explore improvisation step by step as a fascinating path of discovery. Rather he or she is asked to face the unknown with insufficient ‘tools’ and therefore feels very vulnerable. Virtually everything you have been doing in this book has been such an exploration. You have, by following the given suggestions, prompts and frameworks, been improvising.
