The improv handbook the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theater, and beyond
'The Improv Handbook' is a great new guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling.
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The improv handbook : |b the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theater, and beyond / |c by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White. |
| 260 | |a New York : |b Continuum, |c 2008. | ||
| 300 | |a x, 425 pages ; |c 23 cm | ||
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 413-414) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a section 1: Improvisation -- What was improvisation? -- Improvisation in performance -- History of the Spontaneity Shop -- Intermission: What should improvisation be? -- "From innovation to art form" / Deborah Frances-White -- "Two stories" / Tom Salinsky. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a section 2: How to Improvise -- How to use this section -- Teaching and learning -- The importance of storytelling -- Spontaneity -- Saying yes -- What comes next -- Status -- Go through an unusual door -- Working together -- Being changed -- Twitching, topping, and paperflicking -- Playing characters -- You can't learn mime from a book -- Playing games -- Control freak -- Finding the game in the scene -- Continue or thank you -- Final thoughts -- Intermission: The rules and why there aren't any ... | |
| 505 | 0 | |a section 3: How to improvise in public -- Feel the fear and do it anyway -- Starting a company -- Nuts and bolts -- Intermission: The paradox of improvisation. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a section 4: Making improvisation pay -- Performing? -- Teaching workshops -- Corporate entertainment -- Corporate training -- Corporate events -- How to get corporate work -- Intermission: Women in improv. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a section 5: Talking to improvisers -- Keith Johnstone: the innovator -- Neil Mullarkey: The Comedy Story player -- Randy Dixon: the synthesizer -- Jonathan Pitts: the impresario -- Charna Halpern: the keeper of the Harold -- Mick Napier: power improviser -- Dan O'Connor: West Coast legend -- Patti Stiles: our teacher -- David Fenton: Theatresports MC down under -- Tobias Menzies: the actor. | |
| 505 | 0 | |a In conclusion -- Appendix 1: Games -- Good games -- Dumb but fun -- Never play -- Warm-up games. | |
| 520 | |a 'The Improv Handbook' is a great new guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling. | ||
| 650 | 0 | |a Improvisation (Acting) | |
| 690 | 0 | |a Happy Valley Improv tribute. | |
| 700 | 1 | |a Frances-White, Deborah. | |
| 776 | 0 | 8 | |i Online version: |a Salinsky, Tom. |t Improv handbook. |d New York : Continuum, 2008 |w (OCoLC)609271530 |
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