Patti Stiles

Broschiertes Buch

A Guide to Keith Johnstone's Gorilla Theatre

Beschreibung

This guide is for all those wishing to train in and produce Gorilla Theatre™. It is a fantastic format to experience Impro Keith Johnstone style and receive all of the personal and group benefits that go along with it. Gorilla Theatre™ player/directors develop in storytelling, spontaneity, joyful failure, confidence, teamwork, directing, clowning and so much more. In the late 1950's Keith Johnstone was experimenting with Theatresports™ in London England. It was first produced in Calgary, Canada in 1977, from there spread around the world and is now played in over 90 countries. Gorilla Theatre™ had its debut in 1992 and is also becoming popular worldwide. The International Theatresports™ Institute was created by Keith to entrust and manage his Impro formats. The ITI grants performance rights to groups wishing to train on and perform the Keith Johnstone formats of Theatresports™, Maestro Impro™ and Gorilla Theatre™. Money from royalties goes to member benefits, building the Impro community and managing the trademark and legacy. Keith himself has never taken any profit from the licensing of Theatresports™. ITI members have select access to the Gorilla Theatre™ Guide but it is also available for purchase to anyone.

Autor

Patti is an actor, director, author, playwright and teacher who specialises in improvisational theatre. Her tutelage and mentorship has strongly influenced many improvisors and improvisation companies all over the world. She¿has an infectious enthusiasm for improvisation. Mix this with her insightful improvisation technique, strong narrative skill and her spirit of play, and it is no wonder she is responsible for inspiring many hundreds of people to improvise. Her understanding of Keith Johnstone's work and philosophy, combined with her own discoveries and her wealth of experience on the world impro stage, has made her a "must have" teacher for performers and companies wishing to create spontaneous theatre with fine skill, strong narrative, heart and elegant style. She is a Loose Moose Theatre Company Alumna, a founding member of the award winning Die Nasty - the live improvised soap opera and former Artistic Director of Rapid Fire Theatre (CA), Impro Melbourne (AU), and the International Theatresports Institute (CA).In 2021 she released her first book Improvise Freely. It has received an enthusiastic response from improvisors, teachers and impro companies around the globe. It ha been translated into Italian and French. Patti is a contributor to the book The Art of Making Mistakes and has been interviewed for the books Something Like A Drug and The Improv Handbook (which is dedicated to Patti in recognition of her mentorship.) ¿¿Adding to her list of credits are three nominations for an Elizabeth Sterling Haynes Theatre Award plus she holds the unofficial record for being the first female to improvise for 53 hours in a row in the famous Die Nasty soap a thon. ¿¿The Canadian press has given her the titles "Impro Doyen" and "Queen of Improvisation".

Produktdetails

• Verlag: International Theatresports Institute
• Seitenzahl: 54
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Dezember 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 216mm x 4mm
• Gewicht: 177g
• ISBN-13: 9780995955523
• ISBN-10: 0995955522
• Artikelnr.: 50820635