{"id":2138,"date":"2014-03-10T09:56:25","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T09:56:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/impro-improvisation-and-the-theatre-by-keith\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T10:49:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T08:49:13","slug":"impro-improvisation-and-the-theatre-by-keith","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/impro-improvisation-and-the-theatre-by-keith\/","title":{"rendered":"Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone &#8211; Readmill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/readmill.com\/kaeru\/reads\/impro-improvisation-and-the-theatre'>Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone &#8211; Readmill<\/a><div class=\"link_description\"><p>So I finished reading Impro this weekend. In addition to the things I mentioned in my tiny review two things are worth mentioning:<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n<ol><li><p>Status play. This was an eye-opener to me, that in all human interactions one can observe status signals. Johnstone goes on to suggest you can play with status signals in all manner of situations. I\u2019ve started doing just that and it can be quite liberating.<\/p><\/li>\n<li><p>Mask work. Reading this section I was mostly just super eager to try mask work myself. Johnstone talks about masks having an inherent personality that is channeled through the actor, similar to being possessed by a spirit\u2026 I\u2019m wondering if a larp based on the ideas about masks presented here would work. It\u2019d be interesting to try out.<\/p><\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone &#8211; ReadmillSo I finished reading Impro this weekend. In addition to the things I mentioned in my tiny review two things are worth mentioning: Status play. This was an eye-opener to me, that in all human interactions one can observe status signals. Johnstone goes on to suggest &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/archives\/2014\/03\/10\/impro-improvisation-and-the-theatre-by-keith\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone &#8211; Readmill<\/span><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[983],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-tumblr","post_format-post-format-link"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2138"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4655,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2138\/revisions\/4655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/leapfrog.nl\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}