The Improv Handbook - Deborah Frances-White

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Auteur(s) : Deborah Frances-White - Tom Salinsky

Editeur : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Langue : Anglais

Parution : 01/10/2017

Format : Moyen, de 350g à 1kg

Nombre de pages : 520

Expédition : 773

Dimensions : 23.1 x 15.6 x 3.2

ISBN : 1350026166

Résumé :

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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Biographie:
Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White...

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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 ...