Interactive and Improvisational Drama

Abstract

Interactive and Improvisational Drama, edited by Adam Blatner and Daniel Wiener, is an anthology of short chapters on different forms of interactive and improvisational theater and an eye opener for those who have long worked in the somewhat insular world of psychodrama. Gone are the days when Morenians saw the Morenos' training center at Beacon, NY, as an isolated outpost from which flowed all wisdom related to spontaneous, unscripted drama, or thought that psychodramatists were a tiny minority with an idiosyncratic point of view. Now thousands upon thousands of people regularly practice some form of unscripted drama. Many trace their origins explicitly to Moreno, psychodrama, or sociometry. Others seem unaware that if there had been no Moreno, they would not be doing anything like what they are doing.