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Zusatztext "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 Informationen zum Autor Tom Salinsky is the co-founder (with his wife Deborah Frances-White) of The Spontaneity Shop. He and Deborah have performed improvisation for The Royal Court, The RSC Summer Season, The Gilded Balloon at the Edinburgh Festival, and at the Bloomsbury Theatre. They have toured the world and performed at many comedy festivals by invitation. They teach at RADA, The Actors Centre, The National Youth Theatre, and many other colleges and institutions, as well as their own successful workshop program. Deborah Frances-White is a stand-up comedian best known for her BBC Radio 4 show Deborah Frances-White Rolls the Dice. She’s performed comedy around the world including The Edinburgh Festival, The Melbourne International Comedy Festival and Roadshow and The London Storytelling Festival. For more info see deborahfrances-white.com. Klappentext "The Improv Handbook" provides everything someone interested in improvisational comedy needs to know, as written by a husband-and-wife comedy duo with years of experience and teaching in the field. Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung A guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling. It also includes sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first place. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part One: Improvisation History Antiquity: Forms of improvisation from before the 20th CenturyJohnstone / Calgary: Keith Johnstone, the Theatre Machine, and the Loose MooseClose / Chicago: Del Close and the Chicago sceneSpolin: The Compass Players and Viola Spolin's continuing influenceThe World Over: The spread of improvised theatre across Europe, America and the rest of the worldThe Spontaneity Shop / UK: Improvisation in the UK - a personal history Performance TheatreSports: The grandaddy of them allMicetro, Gorilla Theatre, LifeGame: Later inventions of Keith JohnstoneThe Harold and Its Relations: Del Close's way of doing thingsThe Rest: Less interesting, influential, or popular forms: "Whose Line Is It Anyway"; "Improvised" films and television; TellTales; X-improvised. Intermission: Great Teachers Part Two: How to ImproviseCore BeliefsStorytelling: Improvisation isn't about jokes, or about "anything goes". It's about telling a story.Failure - on and off the stage: Why "we suck and we love to fail" is the most important thing anyone's ever said to us. How To Use This Section Day OneSpontaneity: Pointing at things; What are you doing?Saying "Yes": Block/Offer/Accept; Yes and... Day Two...
