SWIMP24: Anton Romanus - Acting NOT reacting

Acting NOT reacting - character driven impro As improvisers we train ourselves to react to suggestions from our scene partners and the audience, and to build scenes through “yes, and”. In this workshop, we take inspiration from scripted acting and explore how to build narrative through character motivations and how they affect the relationships on stage. We challenge ourselves, and the trust of our scene partners, to not always take the path of least resistance and make choices informed by our improviser training, but instead informed by our character. We’ll work with realistic conflicts and love, tension, silence, body language and holding on to our characters perspective as we train to make our characters multilayered, grounded and specific. Anton Romanus is theater director, teacher and improviser at Gbgimpro and has been a member of the group since 2012. Anton began his theatrical career on the board of the Gothenburg Student Theatre. He was one of the founders of the theater sports group Rattle in 2005, which for many years competed and won theater sports competitions in and outside of Gothenburg. Since then, Anton has both taught and performed impro in Sweden, Norway, Germany, Spain, Holland, USA and Canada. Outside of Gbgimpro Anton has played comic long form with Anders Fors in the duo Puppy. And in recent years focused on more grounded, dramatic work, both at Gbgimpro and together with his duo-partner Agnes Edvall, under the tongue in cheek name The Serious Duo. Anton also loves animals and often looks for opportunities to play animals on stage.