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The Improv Handbook The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy Theatre and Beyond 2nd Edition by Tom Salinsky 9781350026179 1350026174

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The Improv Handbook The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy Theatre and Beyond 2nd Edition Tom Salinsky Digital Instant Download

Author(s): Tom Salinsky; Deborah Fances-White

ISBN(s): 9781350026155, 9781350026162, 9781350026186, 1350026158, 1350026166, 1350026182

Edition: 2

File Details: PDF, 2.46 MB

Year: 2017

Language: English

SKU: EB-50219186 Category: Arts - Performing Arts Tags: 1350026174, 9781350026179, Comedy, Deborah Fances-White, Improvising, Theatre, Tom Salinsky

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Author: Tom Salinsky

The Improv Handbook
The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

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.

Table contents:

Section One: What Is Improvisation?
1.1. What Was Improvisation?
1.2. Improvisation in Performance
Intermission: “What Should Improvisation Be?”
#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
2.4. Saying Yes
2.5. What Comes Next
2.6. Status
2.7. Go Through an Unusual Door
2.8. Working Together
2.9. Being Changed
2.10. More on Masters and Servants
2.11. Twitching, Topping and Paperflicking
2.12. Playing Characters
2.13. You Can’t Learn Mime from a Book
2.14. Control Freak
2.15. Finding the Game in the Scene
2.16. Continue or Thank You
2.17. Agree, Agree, Agree
2.18. Playing Games
2.19. Final Thoughts
Intermission: The Rules and Why There Aren’t Any…
Section Three: How to Improvise in Public
3.1. Feel the Fear and Do It Anyway
3.2. Starting a Company
3.3. Nuts and Bolts
Intermission: The Paradox of Improvisation
Section Four: Making Improvisation Pay
4.1. Performing?
4.2. Teaching Workshops
4.3. Corporate Entertainment
4.4. Corporate Training
4.5. Corporate Events
4.6. How to Get Corporate Work
Intermission: Women in Improv
Section Five: Talking to Improvisers
5.1. Keith Johnstone—The Innovator
5.2. Neil Mullarkey—The Comedy Store Player
5.3. Randy Dixon—The Synthesizer
5.4. Jonathan Pitts—The Impresario
5.5. Charna Halpern—The Keeper of the Harold
5.6. Mick Napier—Power Improviser
5.7. Dan O’Connor—West Coast Legend
5.8. Patti Stiles—Our Teacher
5.9. David Fenton—Theatresports MC Down Under
5.10. Tobias Menzies—The Actor
5.11. Jeffrey Sweet–Illegitimate Grandfather of American Improv
5.12. Dylan Emery—Starter of Showstopper
5.13. Paul Rogan—An English Actor and Improviser in LA
5.14. Mike McShane—Transatlantic Improviser and Actor
5.15. Tom Salinsky Discusses the Improv Show Voices in Your Head and Its Spin-Offs with Deborah Fran