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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 - many from Johnstone's personal collection - 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.
Contents
1 Introducing Keith Johnstone and his Impro System
2 The formative years
First forays in teaching
Waiting for Godot
The Royal Court Theatre - A 'School' for playwrights
Samuel Beckett - An arranged meeting
Sunday Night productions without décor
The Writers' Group
Eleven Men Dead at Hola Camp - An improvised dramatic protest
Johnstone as a Royal Court Theatre director
Court politics
The Knack
3 All the world is a classroom
The Royal Court Theatre Studio
Clowning
Johnstone's last season at the Royal Court
The Performing Giant
The Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts
The Theatre Machine
Johnstone teaches beyond Britain
Theatre Machine back at the Court and Johnstone's courtship
Johnstone and Eugenio Barba
The Last Bird in Copenhagen
Emigration
4 The master teacher in the university classroom
O Canada! Johnstone's new hom
Johnstone's first staging of Godot
The University of Calgary
Drama 200 and Drama 300
Vakhtangov and Zen
Teacher-student interaction
Production work at the University of Calgary
Live Snakes and Ladders
Johnstone's legacy at the University of Calgary
5 From classroom to world stage: The Loose Moose Theatre Company
The Loose Moose Theatre Company
Beginning of Theatresports
Waiting for Godot and The Last Bird again
Theatresports Tournaments and The Loose Moose Hamlet
Loose Moose finds a home
A Pinteresque season
Bustling and broke
Unsportsmanlike conduct
Loose Moose moves forward
Impro and Theatresports in Sweden
Festival of Fools in New York and treated like fools in Quebec
Back home
Beginning of Life Game and other formats
Out of debt but no recognition
(Re)Teaching Theatresports
Conflict and closure - Beyond and within; Transitions
The Loose Moose today
6 What now? What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Johnstone - The reluctant guru
Johnstone's international workshops - Ideal for who?
What may (or may not) happen in a Johnstone workshop
Improbable's Life Game and Rebecca Northan's Blind Date
Impro hot on stages and in classrooms of Latin America
Impro beyond the theatre classroom
What comes next? What classrooms still remain?
Bibliography
Index
