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Zusatztext A brilliant guide for those embarking on an improv journey, or those with more experience looking to recap and refresh. 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. Vorwort A second edition of the hugely popular guide to improvisation, featuring new exercises, games and interviews Zusammenfassung The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance.First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan. The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you’re a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren’t too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way. Inhaltsverzeichnis ContentsForeword by Mike McShane Introduction to the Second Edition Introduction Section One: What Is Improvisation? 1.1 What Was Improvisation? Antiquity Viola Spolin Keith Johnstone ImprovOlympic The Spontaneity Shop 1.2 Improvisation in Performance Keith Johnstone and Competitive Improvisation Del Close and the Harold Improvisation On TV Intermission: “Two Stories” #1 “From Innovation to Art Form” #2 “Two Stories” Section Two: How to Improvise 2.1 How to Use This Section 2.2 Teaching and Learning 2.3 Spontaneity Pointing at Things What are you doing? 2.4 Saying Yes 2.5 What Comes Next The Importance of Platforms Lengths of Platforms Keeping Promises Providing Feedback The Right Trouble for The Right Hero Solving Problems Join The Dots Committees Endings The Magic Formula? 2.6 Status Introducing The Concepts What is status? Status Off-Stage Still Heads Status Ladders High Status Competitions Happy High Status 2.7 Go Through an Unusual Door Everything for a Reason Making Assumptions Strategies for Breaking the Routine Variations The CJ Sweep Tilting 2.8 Working Together Word at a Time Standing Wave Master/Servant Dubbing Over-Confessing Other Games 2.9 Being Changed Status Switch Speaking in Tongues 2.10 More on Masters and Servants The Chair Game Fingersnaps Master/Servant Double Header 2.11 Twitching, Topping and Paper-flicking 2.12 Playing Characters What is a Character? Changing the Body Hilarious Geisha Characters From a Hat Shoe Shops Opposite, Arbitrary, Extreme Characters with Depth Characters with Dimension What do you Want? 2.13 You Can’t Learn Mime from a Book Fixed Points Popping Making Noises 2.14 Control Freak Hypnotist magician Sandy Carroll 2.15 Finding the Game in the Scene 2.16 Continue or Thank You 2.17 Agree, agree, agree When Harry Met Sally Photo Albu...
