Name: Keith Johnstone's Status Games: Playing with the Pecking Order
Start: 2025-01-30T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2025-01-30T20:30:00-05:00
Location: BOMBYX Center for Arts & Equity

Keith Johnstone's Status Games: Playing with the Pecking Order

Who's on top? Who's below? Why do we love it when they trade places? Learn to master your inner servant, and serve your inner master!
About this Event

All social animals form pecking orders, and humans are no exception. Pecking orders regulate group behavior and minimize open conflicts - until something upsets the status quo - then the drama (or comedy) begins!

On stage, as in life, characters establish status through collaboration and competition: From Antigone to Hamilton, plays and musicals have devoted much of their dialogue and action to the status play between characters.

In his landmark book Impro, Keith Johnstone indroduced a body of "status games" that helped reveal the subconscious rules societies (and individuals) use to maintain (or change) their status in any situation. Join Steve Eldredge for a fun, funny and mind-boggling tour of Johnstone’s free-wheeling approach to disrupting the social order!