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	Theatresports - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		It was originally developed by improvisational theatre pioneer Keith Johnstone who licensed the term to the ITI.
		Johnstone emphasized certain principles in plot development during an improvisational scene.
		However, Keith Johnstone was first inspired to implement a competitive format as a way of applying to the theatre the sort of mass-appeal found in such sports as professional wrestling.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Theatresports (640 words)

	Keith Johnstone - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Keith Johnstone is one of the major influences on modern improvisational theatre.
		Johnstone was the first theatre professional to introduce the term "status transactions" into modern theatre, believing that an alarmingly high proportion of comedy comes from the infinite tiny ways that people try to raise their social status and lower the social status of others.
		Keith has subsequently invented further improvisation "formats" including "Gorilla Theatre", "Micetro" or "Maestro" and "Life Game" which has been seen at the National Theatre courtesy of Improbable Theatre and on US Cable television.
	www.wikipedia.org /wiki/Keith_Johnstone (381 words)

	Improvisational theatre - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Modern improvisation began in the classroom with the theatre games of Viola Spolin and Keith Johnstone in the 1950s, then evolved quickly to become an independent artform worthy of presentation before a paying audience.
		Some key figures in the development of improvisational theatre are Viola Spolin and her son Paul Sills, founder of Chicago's famed Second City troupe and inventor of Story Theater, and Del Close, founder of ImprovOlympic (along with Charna Halpern) and creator of the longform improv known as The Harold.
		Keith Johnstone authored Impro and Impro for Storytellers and developed the international formats Theatresports, Micetro Impro, Gorilla Theatre and the Life Game.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Improvisational_theatre (907 words)

	WIT:People
		She is a professional clown and actor, and trained at the Clown School in California and the WIT Keith Johnstone masterclass in 2004.
		Keith is the world’s leading authority on improv, great chunks of which he invented (including Theatresports, Micetro, The Life Game).
		She produced the WIT Keith Johnstone masterclass as a means of ensuring she won the end-of-class show.
	www.wit.org.nz /people.htm (3489 words)

	Keith's and Campbell's Highlanders.
		Keith's Highlanders - Germany - Campbell's Highlanders - Germany - Zeirenberg - Fellinghausen - Continental Notions of Highlanders - Brucher Mühl - Reduction of the regiments.
		Major, afterwards Sir James Johnstone of Westerhall was appointed to the command of the corps, with the rank of major-commandant.
		Keith's regiment was embodied at Perth and Campbell's at Stirling, and being embodied at the same time, and ordered on the same service, an interchange of officers took place.
	www.coghlan.co.uk /keith.htm (2440 words)

	Short History of Improvisation (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone started formulating his theories about creativity and spontaneity while growing up in England, and later brought them into his teaching at the University of Calgary.
		Johnstone wanted to bring theatre to the people who went to sporting and boxing matches, the same audience that Shakespeare had written for in his day.
		Johnstone decided that one approach would be to combine elements of both theatre and sports, to form a hybrid called Theatresports.
	www.improvcomedy.org /history.html (463 words)

	PEDABLOGUE - Impro II: Status
		Johnstone may be guilty of essentializing, but his theories are founded in psychoanalytic literature that suggests that people naturally incline toward a dominant or submissive personality type...and he reveals how these traits often unconsciously motivate teachers.
		Johnstone talks about actors who have the equivalent of "writer's block": students who try too hard to "get it right" or who hold too closely to the script and therefore perform two-dimensionally or even lock up completely.
		Although Johnstone doesn't seem to deal directly with them, theories of the politics of everyday life in cultural studies literature often point back to Michel de Certeau's The Practice of Everyday Life and Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MikeArnzen/009704.html (1734 words)

	PEDABLOGUE - Impro I: Notes on Myself
		Indeed, one assumption built into Johnstone's pedagogy is that good teachers enable students to release their "inner child," who is spontaneous and playful rather than repressed and too dependent on the "adults" of the educational system for permission to think for themselves.
		Johnstone marvels at how excellent these examples are, assuming they're done by an advanced class, but then the teacher reveals that they were created by eighth graders who were given the same exact guidelines.
		Johnstone's clever "game" with the students is -- remarkably -- a status game, which inherently treats the teacher and the student as a role that is played in a sort of social theater.
	blogs.setonhill.edu /MikeArnzen/009677.html (1674 words)

	History- Los Angeles Theatresports: The Improvisational Theater Company (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone, author of IMPRO, created Theatresports in 1976 in his acting classes at the University of Calgary, to inject a theatre audience with the passion displayed by sports fans.
		Keith Johnstone is a professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, and The Co-founder of the Loose Moose Theatre.
		Keith is the author of "Impro" (Methuen) one of the key books on improvisation, which is translated Into several languages; and also "Impro for Storytellers" (Faber and Faber, (UK)), a guide to teaching improvisation and Theatresports.
	www.theatresports.com /history.shtml (952 words)

	Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Keith Johnstone) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Johnstone expounds his idea that all relationships are plays on status.
		Johnstone's attitude towards education is also surprisingly outdated for a 1981 book : he keeps harping on educational attitudes which belong in the fifties.
		Johnstone's book is a must for anybody wanting to improvise effectively on a stage, anyone wanting to use drama as a teaching or therapeutic tool, and an essential for anybody interested in the practical exploration of the subconscious mind and its workings.
	www.interference.com /webstore/us/product/0878301178.htm (451 words)

	The Spontaneity Shop > About > Keith Johnstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone is widely regarded as the father of modern improvisation.
		Keith would direct a band of actors in improvised scenes and audiences went crazy.
		Keith wrote the Lord Chamberlain a letter suggesting that one of his "lackeys" sit by the side of the stage during their shows and ring a bell if anything occured of which he disapproved, but no reply was forthcoming.
	www.the-spontaneity-shop.com /about/keith_johnstone.html (303 words)

	Impro for Storytellers Keith Johnstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Since the sixties, Keith Johnstone has led the work on improvisation in theatre, schools and universities.
		Keith's techniques specialize in releasing an individual's potential within the context of group work.
		Keith Johnstone is an inspirational teacher and writer, and Impro for Storytellers will encourage life-ling study of human interactions.
	www.catalystcentre.ca /rtwx2/Catalogue/Cat0016.htm (208 words)

	KJWI Keith Johnstone's Bio (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone is a professor emeritus at the University of Calgary, and a founding Artistic Director of the Loose Moose Theatre.
		Keith taught at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art until he left England, and has taught or given workshops at major European Theatre Schools and Universities.
		Keith is the author of "Impro" (Methuen) one of the key books on improvisation and is now translated into several languages; and also has recently completed Impro For Storytellers (Faber and Faber), a guide to teaching improvisation and Theatresports.
	www.keithjohnstone.com /bio.htm (197 words)

	FFWD Weekly - December 11, 2003
		You don’t have to climb a mountain to find improv guru Keith Johnstone – he’s no further away than an untidy little bungalow in Killarney, where he continues to write about his ideas, critique his unruly progeny and wage his quixotic lifelong battle against all that is dishonest and clever in theatre.
		Then there is Johnstone himself, who, despite being reduced to sound bites like the other subjects, still manages to reveal his disarming personality – a harsh critic and habitual iconoclast hidden in the frumpy, shambling mannerisms of a gentle English eccentric.
		Johnstone has directed Godot a number of times, most recently in 1998 at the Moose, in a lively staging that was a wonderfully irreverent alternative to all those deadly, Sam-wanted-it-this-way productions that critics and audiences dutifully take like doses of bad-tasting medicine.
	www.ffwdweekly.com /Issues/2003/1211/the3.htm (689 words)

	BATS Improv - About - History of BATS Improv
		BATS is a member of the International Theatresports Institute (www.theatresports.org) and holds a license to produce the Keith Johnstone shows Theatresports, Gorilla Theatre, and Micetro.
		In 1976, Keith Johnstone and a group of his students at the University of Calgary formed the Secret Impro Group to perform noon-hour shows.
		Johnstone was also concerned about the performers; he wanted Theatresports to provide training for improvisation.
	www.improv.org /about/history.htm (770 words)

	ITI-About
		Johnstone seeks to liberate the imagination, to cultivate in the adult the creative power of the child...Deserves to be widely read and tested in the classroom and rehearsal hall.
		Impro for Storytellers is Keith Johnstone's follow-up to the classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation.
		In Storytellers, Johnstone takes a further decade of experience as a teacher and coach and explores how an individual's potential can be released in group settings.
	www.theatresports.org /About/about.html (333 words)

	Amazon.ca: Books: Impro for Storytellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone worked at the Royal Court Theatre in the 1960s where he developed his techniques for improvisational work.
		Johnstone describes tons of incredible short-form games, which could all be used in developing a long-form troupes unity and confidence.
		Johnstone paces the book with wonderful stories of how the games have been used under all sorts of circumstances, with a brilliant and dry sense of wit.
	www.amazon.ca /exec/obidos/ASIN/0571190995 (630 words)

	Impro by Keith Johnstone (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him.
		The techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio, then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers called The Theatre Machine.
		"If teachers were honoured in the British theatre along-side directors, designers and playwrights, Keith Johnstone would be as familiar a name as are those of...Jocelyn Herbert, Edward Bond and other young talents who were drawn to the great lodestone of the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s.
	www.methuen.co.uk /impro.html (276 words)

	Positive Sharing: Book review: Impro for storytellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone is the inventor of theatresports and in Impro for Storytellers, he writes about the importance of stories in improvisational theatre.
		That's exactly what life is like, and that makes impro an excellent laboratory for learning skills and tools that you can use in "real life" because in impro you have immediate feedback from the audience (and in theatresports also from the judges).
		The book mentions many exercises that Keith Johnstone uses in his workshops, and I'm itching to try some of them out soon.
	www.positivesharing.com /journal/00000241.htm (338 words)

	New Improv Page - Classes - Impro for Life
		It is intended for those who want to develop their improvisation skills with a Master - Keith Johnstone and be in a natural environment, The Canadian Rocky Mountains.
		Keith Johnstone will be the principle instructor for this workshop.
		As Lifegame's devisor Keith Johnstone says in the programme, 'If theatre did not exist perhaps this would be a good place to start if we wanted to invent it from scratch'.
	www.fuzzyco.com /improv/classes/impro00.html (868 words)

	Keith Johnstone -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone is one of the major influences on modern (additional info and facts about improvisational theatre) improvisational theatre.
		He made this realisation partly as a result of reading several books by (additional info and facts about Desmond Morris) Desmond Morris.
		Keith johnston still lives in Calgary and teaches all over the world.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/k/ke/keith_johnstone.htm (308 words)

	Preservation News Release
		Johnstone and John Taylor, another Sandia weapons engineer, conceived the project as a way of assisting current and future weapons scientists who may need to maintain stockpiled weapons beyond their intended length of service without the benefit of having ever designed or tested a system.
		Another benefit, says Johnstone, could be understanding technological approaches to problems that had to be discarded in an earlier age but one day may be applicable.
		Johnstone says the team made a commitment to the participants that the information and insights they provided would be used, it would be accessible -- at the desktop -- to a new generation of weapons engineers.
	www.sandia.gov /media/preserve.htm (846 words)

	Ventura Area TheatreSports (TM) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Keith Johnstone, the founder of TheatreSports™;*, has been involved in improvisational theatre since the mid-1950s and is internationally recognized as a pioneer in this field.
		Keith found a way to inject into theatre the same kind of excitement that audiences experience at sporting events.
		This involves a change in the relationship between the players and the audience, breaking down the formalities of traditional theatre by encouraging spectators to cheer, boo, and become involved in the creative act by fueling scenes with suggestions.
	www.liverytheatre.org /theatrespts.html (291 words)

	Colorado Shakespeare Festival (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In fact, clowning was just what Keith Johnstone had in mind when he began pushing students to improvise in workshops.
		Johnstone, a reader for Royal Court Theatre, was frustrated with the wooden, pretentious quality of English theatre in the 1950s.
		Close believed that, at its best, when performers are able to turn off their self-conscious minds, allowing words and symbols to erupt from within, all of the minds in the performance space meld together in a profound, though ephemeral, moment of connection.
	www.coloradoshakes.org /research/play.cfm?id=173&dirid=84 (844 words)

	Theatresports - TheBestLinks.com - Improvisational theatre, Trademark, Whose Line is it Anyway?, Television show, ...
		Theatresports is a form of improvisational theatre which is performed in a competitive situation.
		Theatresports is a trademark of the International Theatresports Institute (ITI) and was originally developed by the improvisational theatre pioneer, Keith Johnstone who licensed the term to the ITI.
		Some would argue that Theatresports, like the caber toss, requires a certain amount of training to be really enjoyable.
	www.thebestlinks.com /Theatresports.html (524 words)

	Internet Public Library: Pathfinders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This site, based on the work and writings of English improviser Keith Johnstone, offers historical information about his development of Theatresports and other forms of competitive improv.
		Keith Johnstone is sometimes called the father of improvisation.
		His text moves from Johnstone's very beginnings as an improviser and instructor through a series of discussions about aspects of improvisation that, when mastered, change the learner's overall outlook as a performer.
	www.ipl.org:3000 /div/pf/entry/48487 (697 words)

	Impro for Storytellers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		This book is a bit easier to read than Impro, less theoretical, and more oriented towards practical games and theatre sports.
		A number of reviewers are less happy about this book, and complain that Johnstone basically recycled his first book.
		Johnstone clearly took the time (and the pages) to elaborate on the background reasons for doing what he does.
	www.humanpingpongball.com /Impro_for_Storytellers.html (188 words)

	Ventura Area TheatreSports Home Page
		Keith Johnstone's Micetro (pronounced MICEtro) is the latest competitive format to be used by VATS improvisors.
		Keith Johnstone's Gorilla Theatre is now playing at the Variety Theatre in Ventura, 34 N. Palm St. at 7:30 p.m.
		TheatreSports is the invention of Professor Keith Johnstone, a renowned teacher and author in the world of the theatre.
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/VATS (511 words)

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