Theater sports
Theater sport is the term coined by Keith Johnstone for a format of improvisational theater in which two teams of actors play against each other for the favor of the audience or the referee . Points are distributed in different game rounds.
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The form of theatrical sport that has become established differs in several important ways from Johnstone's original intentions for the format; in particular, improvisational comedy is currently practically exclusively presented. Johnstone, on the other hand, states that he originally intended a format that would include both comic and serious performances.
Theater sports teams exist all over the world, with some other theater makers having developed similar concepts and overlapping. The term theater sport is an unregistered word mark (TM) .
The license fees for Johnstones formats are collected by the International Theatresports Institute (ITI). According to Johnstone, licensing should prevent the formats he invented from being watered down and falsified. In practice, many groups bypass the voluntary licensing in Europe by performing the games under other names, such as "Impro-Match" or "Theatermatch", often deviating from Johnstone's original set of rules.
The first world championship in theater sport took place in eleven cities and regions in Germany as part of the federal government's arts and culture program for the 2006 FIFA World Cup .
literature
- Keith Johnstone: Improvisation and Theater. Foreword by Irving Wardle and afterword by George Tabori . Alexander, Berlin 1993, ISBN 978-3-923854-67-7 .
- Keith Johnstone: Theater Games - Spontaneity, Improvisation and Theater Sports. Alexander, Berlin 1997, ISBN 3-89581-001-0 .
- Marianne Miami Andersen: Theater sports and improv theater. Impuls-Theater-Verlag, Planegg 1996, ISBN 3-7660-9100-X .
- Volker Quandt: The desire to fail: theater sport. Klöpfer & Meyer, Tübingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-86351-045-9 .
Movie
- Haro Senft: How life plays ...: a documentary about theater sport and improvisational theater , video documentation, Germany 1997
Individual evidence
- ↑ License information
- ^ Homepage of the Theater Sports World Cup
- ↑ Julia Teichmann: Sport without pain - the first theater sport world championship has its final in the theater on Kurfürstendamm. In: Berliner Zeitung . July 10, 2006, accessed June 6, 2015 .
- ↑ As life plays ... on filmportal.de ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
