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Oil and water: or, how a director taught the brilliant old dogs of Steppenwolf some new tricks.

American Theatre,  December, 2005  by Landau, Tina

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You may never have used it as a training and rehearsal technique, but if you're an actor in America, you've heard of Viewpoints. This improvisation-based system, which grew out of the postmodern dance world, has been adapted, expanded and popularized by directors Anne Bogart and Tina Landau, and is now utilized by countless theatre artists around the world.

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In this excerpt from The Viewpoints Book: A Practical Guide to Viewpoints and Composition, published last month by TCG Books, co-author Landau describes the unlikely process of bringing this theatrical language to an acclaimed ...

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