Status roles
Akimbo: A Podcast from Seth Godin
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Are You Going to Play Low and Let Policeman Play High?
Keith johnstone, in his brilliant book impro spends the first third of the book talking about how theatre is nothing but this exchange of status rolls. When a policeman pulls you over for speeding, in that exchange at the window of your car will be a debate about status rolls. Are you going to play low and let policeman play high? We're not on the savannah any more. We're not lions or hippos deciding who gets to eat first and who just gets the s and yet t certainly seems that way.
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