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Kenn Adams Workshop - Improvising the âSubstantial Sceneâ
An intense workshop that teaches participants how to improvise a long, 2-person, substantial scene. The workshop will focus on the following skills and concepts: the structure of a well-crafted, dramatic scene; knowing where you are in the story and knowing when itâs time to move on, creating compelling dramatic conflict without blocking or arguing, developing characters in service to the needs of the scene, defining the scene by the relationships on stage;, discovering and pursuing the characterâs objective, using the environment as a catalyst for the action, ending the scene with a satisfying, dramatic resolution, and successfully joining scenes in progress.
This workshop is invaluable for the long-form and short-form improviser alike. The material covered comes straight from the soon-to-be-published book How to Improvise a Full-Length Play; The Art of Spontaneous Theater (Allworth Press, September 2007) and is taught by the author.
Kenn began performing improvisation in 1989 with New York City's Freestyle Repertory Theater, the New York home for TheatreSports. He spent the next ten years performing, directing and teaching improvisation with FRT. His early interest in long-form improvisation and sound dramatic structure lead him to conceive of a unique approach to improvising full-length plays. He refined and developed this approach with FRT, and it remains the core of their long-form performance structures. Many of his long-form methods, training techniques, and exercises, such as The Story Spine storytelling model, have been taught, adopted and written about across the country and around the world. His own book on the topic, How to Improvise a Full-Length Play; The Art of Spontaneous Theater will be published by Allworth Press in September of 2007. Kenn has also created a number of popular short-form performance games including Sit, Stand, and Kneel and Family Dinner/The Austin Game-Buzzer-Dinger.
In 1999, he moved to California, and co-founded Delta City Improvisation, with Kimberly MacLean. He is the founding member of San Francisco's Newest improv ensemble Synergy theater and was a Resident Company Member and Associate Director of Lila Theatre Company. In addition to performing improvisation, Kenn is a produced playwright, actor and stage director. He particularly enjoys sharing his passion for theater with kids and teens, and is currently doing so as the Director of the Willows Theater Conservatory, the youth education wing of the Willows Theater Company, a professional, regional theater in the East Bay. Kenn lives in Lafayette with his beautiful daughter, Heather.
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LocationThe Climate Theater
285 9th Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
United States
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| Kid Friendly: No |
| Dog Friendly: No |
| Non-Smoking: No |
| Wheelchair Accessible: No |
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