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… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
It is highly possible that what is called 'talented behavior' is simply a greater individual capacity for experiencing. From this point of view, it… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Get out of your head, into your space and await the invisible stranger — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
The audience is the most revered member of the theater. Without an audience, there is no theater. Everything done is ultimately for the enjoyment… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
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… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
First teach a person to develop to the point of his limitation and then-pfft!-break the limitation. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
When student-actors see people and the way they behave when together, see the color of the sky, hear the sounds in the air, feel… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
The unknown is where we go to find new things and intuition is how we find them. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
There are few places outside his own play where a child can contribute to the world in which he finds himself. His world: dominated… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
Everyone can act. Everyone can improvise. Anyone who wishes to can play in the theatre. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
General improvisations often give actors an insight beyond their words by helping them to 'see the word' and achieve a reality for the scene. — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
If the environment permits it, anyone can learn whatever he chooses to learn, and if the individual permits it, the environment will teach him… — Viola Spolin Copy Share Image
