Twenty Two -If you only think there is one answer, then you will only find one.

Fools learn where wise men fear to tread

If you only think there is one answer, then you will only find one. Scottish Consultative Council on the Curriculum 1996

We made a mistake. That’s good. We just learned something… In life, most of us are highly skilled at suppressing action. All the improvisation teacher has to do is to reverse this skill and he creates very ‘gifted’ improvisers. Bad improvisers block action, often with a high degree of skill. Good improvisers develop action… Many teachers think of children as immature adults. It might lead to better and more ‘respectful’ teaching, if we thought of adults as atrophied children. Keith Johnstone

6th April 202021st April 2020

Nine – I didn’t even exist yesterday

A Report on the Peepeekisis Puppet Project

October 2013

WELCOME MATTERS

“Why do you get so tired from your work?” a friend of mine was once asked by her partner. She asked him whether he felt tired after his first day in a new job. He said he was. And she told him that every day in her work was like starting a new job. This starting over is attributable to the fact that onset of each project always brings a near unimaginable host of variables; the great unknowns and unfamiliars awaiting your arrival.

23rd July 20182nd August 2018

Four – The Syntax of Making

“We are the bees of the invisible. We wildly collect the honey of the visible, to store it in the great golden hive of the invisible.” Rainer Maria Rilke

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