The Improv Handbook

Produktbeschreibung

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. 

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Contents Foreword 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 Albums 2.18 Playing Games Three Word Sentences Questions
Only Good Games Dumb But Fun Never Play Freak Show Games Difficult and Easy
Games 2.19 Final Thoughts PROBLEM: Wimps PROBLEM: Joker PROBLEM: Yes-sayer
PROBLEM: Shiner PROBLEM: Random PROBLEM: Hard worker Gorilla Directing vs.
Micetro Directing How to be Directed Final Words to Students at The End of a
Workshop or Series of Workshops Intermission: THE RULES AND WHY THERE AREN'T
ANY... Never Ask a Question Know the Other Person Never Argue, Always Agree
Avoid Transaction Scenes Start in the Middle Scripted vs. Improvised Comedy How
to Improvise a Scene That Incorporates All This Advice 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 What show? What name? Frequency of Shows Rehearsal Space
Finding a Venue Other People's Shows Fliers and Posters Internet Press Selling
Tickets Starting the Show Music and Lights Ending Scenes Getting Suggestions
Using Audience Members Ending the Show The Next Show Festivals 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
Frances-White Afterword Appendix One: GAMES Good Games Animal Expert Death In A
Minute Dubbing Fight For Your Number Handbag Hat Game It's Tuesday Laugh And
Leave No S The Removalists Sexy Smelly Stupid Small Voice Speak In One Voice
Speed Dating Twins Typewriter Dumb But Fun Backwards Scene Clap Switcheroo Da
Doo Ron Ron ID Cards Inner Monologue Panel Paper chase Pillars Sound Effects
Thumbs Up Thumbs Down Never Play Die Entrances And Exits Freeze Tag Genre
Rollercoaster Et Al. Sign Language Translation Superheroes Warm-Up Games Bibbity
Bibbity Bop Big Booty Electric Company Fling Shoo-ey Greetings I Am, I Am, I Am,
I'll Take More Stories Like That Sevens Spotlight Yes Let's/Nope You Appendix
Two: SYLLABUS DAY ONE: Spontaneity DAY TWO: Status DAY THREE: Working Together
DAY FOUR: Telling Stories DAY FIVE: Being Changed DAY SIX: Defining DAY SEVEN:
Failure DAY EIGHT: Characters Glossary of Terms Thanks Bibliography 

Autoreninfo

Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White