Sentence examples for theatrical improvisation from inspiring English sources

Without sex, life would be insupportable, but without self-willed changes of identity, shifting, theatrical improvisation, life would be impossible as well.

The Memory Ensemble takes that template a step further with theatrical improvisation, a method that treats all words as useful and welcomes the expression of feelings that emerge on the twisting path of memory loss — terror, frustration, even joy.

The absolutely perfect passenger would be a physically fit egotist of average height who had spent time in therapy, was familiar with theatrical improvisation and karaoke and didn't have to try to write a theatre review about it afterwards.

For their collaboration, actors are guided by some basic principles of theatrical improvisation that can be recognised in the work of Keith Johnstone (1979) and Viola Spolin (1999).

The playfulness of the loose theatrical improvisations exposes a burning core of mystical energy.

The performers come from a Chicago establishment called "The Second City", headquarters of that latest theatrical phenomenon: improvisation.

The songs are suitelike excursions that thrive on shifty meters and sudden swerves — fully composed, with little time for improvisation — while Mr. Hammill's theatrical voice traverses recitative, melody and melodramatic outbursts.

Mr. Woodruff holds similar views about the collision of ideas, sounds and images on stage and the importance of improvisation and the process of creating theatrical work.

Van Hove and his ensemble must have choreographed every last moment, but it nonetheless felt like an extended improvisation, created with the barest of theatrical means (a table, some chairs, a bed) and finished with dextrous lightness of touch.

Some write full scripts, some rely heavily on improvisation, but all look to their actors not to provide theatrical incarnations of characters but to appear close to the way they are in life and to make their onscreen characters arise from their offscreen presences.

While his stage presence also takes on theatrical dimensions in the piece, it remains a mostly hidden one, with Mr. Bynum pouring forth improvisations while crouched behind a floor-bound lightbox.