Playwriting
A scene behavior in which a performer narrates, directs, or controls the scene as though writing a script rather than participating as a character within it. Playwriting removes the spontaneity and collaboration from a scene by treating other performers as actors executing one person's vision.
Further Reading
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Improvising Real Life
Personal Story in Playback Theatre
Jo Salas
Devising Theatre
A Practical and Theoretical Handbook
Alison Oddey
Improvising Cinema
Gilles Mouëllic
Devising Performance
A Critical History
Deirdre Heddon; Jane Milling
Theater Games for Rehearsal
Viola Spolin
Something from Nothing
The Technique of Improvisation
Richard Goteri
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