Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances-White

The Improv Handbook

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

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury Academic
• Seitenzahl: 448
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Mai 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 28mm
• Gewicht: 680g
• ISBN-13: 9780826428592
• ISBN-10: 0826428592
• Artikelnr.: 23431326

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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