Keith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone’s unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous, collaborative creation using the intuition and imagination of the actors. Johnstone has since become world-renowned, inspiring theatre greats and beginners alike; and his work continues to influence practice within and beyond the traditional theatre.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Theresa Robbins Dudeck is the first author to rigorously examine Johnstone’s life and career using a combination of archival documents \u2013 many from Johnstone’s personal collection \u2013 participant observation, and interviews with Johnstone, his colleagues and former students.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Keith Johnstone entered the Royal Court Theatre as a new playwright in 1956: a decade later he emerged as a groundbreaking director and teacher of improvisation. His decisive book Impro (1979), described Johnstone’s unique system of training: weaving together theories and techniques to encourage spontaneous, collaborative creation using the intuition and imagination of the actors. Johnstone has since become world-renowned, inspiring theatre greats and beginners alike; and his work continues to influence practice within and beyond the traditional theatre. Theresa Robbins Dudeck is the first author to rigorously examine Johnstone’s life and career using a combination of archival documents \u2013 many from Johnstone’s personal collection \u2013 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.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":223,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"post_tag":[40],"topic":[14,17],"class_list":["post-221","ao_book","type-ao_book","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-biografia","topic-ensayo","topic-english"],"featured_image_url":{"thumbnail":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography-150x150.jpg","medium":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography-201x300.jpg","medium_large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography.jpg","large":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography.jpg","1536x1536":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography.jpg","2048x2048":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/KeithJohnstone-CriticalBiography.jpg"},"post_author":"","assigned_categories":"biography, Essay, english","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book\/221","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/ao_book"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/ao_book"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/223"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/post_tag?post=221"},{"taxonomy":"topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/librosdeimpro.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic?post=221"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}