ABSTRACT

When teaching is oriented toward a practical and even interesting objective it is easier to convince and influence students. … Our point of departure in training actors is to have them learn by acting [improvisations]. … One cannot go on teaching for years in a classroom and only at the end ask a student to act. In that space of time he will have lost all creative faculty. … Creativeness must never cease, the only question being the choice of material on which to base it. … In our kind of acting we make frequent use of improvisations. … This kind of creativeness gives a freshness and an immediacy to a performance.