Category Archives: Mental Exercise

Selection from Keith Johnstone’s Impro

Here’s an extended pas­sage from Keith Johnstone’s Impro. Pub­lished in 1961, it remains one of the most notable books con­cern­ing impro­vi­sa­tion.
Space

Space is very dif­fi­cult to talk about, but easy to demon­strate.
When I was com­mis­sioned to write my first play I’d hardly been inside a the­atre, so I watched rehearsals to get the feel of it. …

March 19, 2010 – 2:15 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Improv, Keith Johnstone, Learning, Mental Exercise | Comments (3)

More Haruki Murakami in What I Talk About When I Talk About Running

The fol­low­ing is more from Haruki Murakami’s What I Talk About When I Talk About Run­ning:
It might be a lit­tle silly for some­one get­ting to be my age to put this into words, but I just want to make sure I get the facts down clearly: I’m the kind of per­son who likes to be …

September 20, 2009 – 9:41 pm | By Matthew Scheer | Posted in Haruki Murakami, Health, Mental Exercise, Professionalism, Rites of Passage, Running, Toxin, What I Talk About When I Talk About Running, Writing | Tagged | Comments (0)