JOAN LITTLEWOOD and MICHEL SAINT-DENIS on Improvisation, or the Actor as Artist
A new attitude to the actor's craft is developing in some countries.
By the use of improvisation in various ways the actor can become more of a creative artist, or completely creative, like Charlie Chaplin , Music-Hall artists, or mimes like Marcel Marceau.
For her productions Joan Little wood has always encouraged her Company to have recourse to improvisation.
This year in Bucharest there was a symposium on improvisation at the second meeting of the International Theatre Institute Commission. It was presided over by Michel Saint-Denis , Inspector of Theatre Performances in France, who. as one of the Directors of the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, runs a studio for actors in which improvisation plays a large part.
Introduced by CARL WILDMAN