Interactive Acting: Acting, Improvisation, and Interacting for Audience Participatory Theatre

Abstract

Moreno developed several stages of improvisational theater: First, he offered a theme and other actors and invited audience members to take and improvise certain parts. Next he had a troupe that improvised on a theme given by the audience. Then he had a mixture of troupe and actors who improvised both theme and content. Finally, the audience became the group-no special actors-improvising theme and content. And even at that stage, it could be further refined: If the group theme continued to involve many interactions
among the group members, it was sociodrama. If an individual's life situation could represent the group's interest, then it shifted more to psychodrama proper.