Creative Experience

Viola Spolin, an American actress, director, theater educator as well as an educational psychologist, was known as the brilliant originator of American theater improvisation and experimental movement. Her unique contribution to the actors'training is the Theater Games theory of improvisation. She was the source from which every improvisational theater company evolved. Her work has a great influence on world theater, not only the improvisation but the formal theater as well, and it was carried beyond into education and psychology areas etc. Her Theater Games Theory is to train the actors'Spontaneity to obtain the Creative Experience by their Intuition. During that journey they are fully open their-selves to catch the personal freedom. Firstly,the dissertation discusses the vital function of CREATIVE EXPERIENCE in the acting education and actor training after a short introduce about Viola Spolin. Second the dissertation discusses the reasonable and advantageous points of the theory, by analyzing on the characteristics of Theater Games, and the same essence between Game and Theater. Third it dissertates the practical principal, considering actors'common difficulties, specialty of acting training and educational psychology. Through the dissertation, there are many examples of theater games in order to help the analysis and also comparisons between the Spolin's theory with Stanislavski's, which is the leading way of acting teaching in China for a long time. These comparisons aim to use Spolin's Game theory and system as a reference to develop and diverse the way of teaching for acting class in China.