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"Cofounders of the London-based improvisational theater company The Spontaneity Shop, Salinsky and Frances-White provide a wonderful addition to the growing literature on theatrical improvisation. The book can serve as both a scholarly resource, since it covers the history of improvisation from its beginnings to the present, and a practical guide, for the beginner and advanced improviser... The authors include interviews with ten leading international improvisers, and they conclude with an appendix that details many of the most common improvisational games used in academic and professional settings. This book is a must for institutions supporting theater and performance programs. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers, all levels." S.W. Cole, CHOICE, January 2009
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"The Improv Handbook" is a great new guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling.Although there are already several successful books on the market about the theory and practice of improvised theatre, there's nothing comprehensive, helpful, fun and full of experience and advice."The Improv Handbook" is a great new guide from a husband and wife team who have years of studying, performance and teaching behind them. Beginning with a history of improvisation, the book works through different types of format and performance including TheatreSports and the inventions of Keith Johnstone and Del Close. The core section of the book is called, simply, "How To Improvise" and includes chapters on spontaneity, the fundamentals of storytelling, working together, upping the ante and characters.Having established the fundamentals, the two authors go on to elaborate on more advanced techniques and skills. The book concludes with sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first place." The Improv Handbook" should become a standard book in the field - it's smart, fun, helpful, and inspiring, and it's on a mission to bring Improv to a much wider audience.
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1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
An excellent guide to the art of improvised theatre set in an accessible & informative format the text gives tips & techniques on all aspects of performing as well as running workshops.
A very useful tool I have referred to many times for my group.
A very useful tool I have referred to many times for my group.
Format:Paperback
Initially picked this up and browsed in a bookstore. It stuck in my head so I purchased on Amazon a few days later. Really interesting stuff which I've used a lot in my job in sales. Helps with confidence, listening and responding and, frankly, blagging (or story telling as the authors call it.) Still have no desire to try improv though!
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Format:Paperback
This book is wonderfully practical, without omitting the philosophy of Improv that makes it the exciting, living art form that it is. Salinsky and Frances-White have brought the pages of their manual alive with anecdotes from their vast experience that prove the power of narrative and make this book not only informative but entertaining in its own right. The personalities of the writers themselves as well as the practitioners they interview leap out of the pages in glorious 3D. This is not your average "how to" book. The authors have been very generous in sharing their experience. There is not only a section on "How to Improvise" where they have given the reader their own Level One syllabus, but a very useful section on how to make money from this gloriously ephemeral art. They are generously providing the reader, whether a teacher or student of improv, with the werewithal to make a living doing the thing they love. This is a book on Improv written with the spirit of Improv that should go on the shelf alongside the improv classics, Impro, Impro for Storytellers and Truth in Comedy - superb!
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Having done the Spon Shop courses and seen their shows, I can concur with the other reviewers that this book makes a compelling case for impro, it works both as a manual and also... Read more
Published on 20 April 2009 by AlbertNW
impro will help you - learn how in this book
I used to think improvisation was only about 'whose line is it anyway?' - well it's not and you'll see what it really is and how you can get better at it in this great book. Read more
Published on 4 April 2009 by E. Ozdemiroglu
The new improv bible
Congratulations on bringing a whole new fresh approach to understanding and teaching improvisation.
The book is divided into clearly understandable sections with methodology... Read more
The book is divided into clearly understandable sections with methodology... Read more
Published on 27 Feb 2009 by Mr. A. Risner
Worth every penny already
To be honest, I haven't read the whole book yet, it has not been out for very long and I only, finally, got hold of it a couple of days ago, and will be writing a more... Read more
Published on 17 July 2008 by A. Bainbridge
Terrific Book
This is the long-awaited 'how-to' guide by my two colleagues at the Spontaneity Shop - the fruit of long experience teaching, directing and performing. Read more
Published on 7 July 2008 by Mr. A. P. M. Maclaren
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