30 Quotes by Viola Spolin

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    First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation.

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    The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment of the audience. They are our guests, fellow players, and the last spoke in the wheel which can then begin to roll. They make the performance meaningful.

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    We learn through experience and experiencing, and no one teaches anyone anything.

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

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    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.

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    It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it is in the increasing of the individual capacity for experiencing that the untold potentiality of a personality can be evoked.

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    Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre.

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    Play touches and stimulates vitality, awakening the whole person – mind, body, intelligence and creativity.

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