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poem-partnering

Submitted by hwiencek on Fri, 01/16/2009 - 11:21pm.
When we did that partner poem activity in class I had said that my theater teacher in high school had used this activity when we were studying script writing. I asked her about it the other day and this is what she said:


The reading comes from the Kieth Johnstone book "Impro." There's a chapter in it that is titled, "Narrative Skills." In a nutshell, Johnstone says that group writing (in his case -- word-at-a-time letters, remember that exercise?) goes through 4 stages. They are: 1. cautious, nonsensical, silly and full of concealed sexual references, 2. the letters are obscene and psychotic, 3. they are full of religious feeling, often grandiose, 4. they express loneliness and vulnerability -- the "truest" letters.

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