Viola Spolin: Quotes about personality

Viola Spolin was American academic and acting theorist. Explore interesting quotes on personality.

Viola Spolin: 18 quotes 0 likes

“Games develop personal techniques and skills necessary for the game itself, through playing. Skills are developed at the very moment a person is having all the fun and excitement playing a game has to offer--this is the exact time one is truly open to receive them.”

Viola Spolin

Improvisation for the Theater 1963), page 4

Game , Time , Personality

“Through spontaneity we are re-formed into ourselves. It creates an explosion that for the moment frees us from handed-down frames of reference, memory choked with old facts and information and undigested theories and techniques of other people's findings. Spontaneity is the moment of personal freedom when we are faced with reality, and see it, explore it and act accordingly. In this reality the bits and pieces of ourselves function as an organic whole. It is the time of discovery, of experiencing, of creative expression.”

Viola Spolin

Improvisation for the Theater 1963), page 4

People , Reality , Freedom , Memory

“Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person - mind, body, intelligence and creativity, spontaneity and intuition.”

Viola Spolin

Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook (1986) Northwestern University Press, page 3

Intelligence , Personality