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

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Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.10.2017

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

520

Maße (L/B/H)

23,1/15,6/3,2 cm

Gewicht

773 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-02616-2

Beschreibung

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch

Erscheinungsdatum

19.10.2017

Verlag

Bloomsbury Academic

Seitenzahl

520

Maße (L/B/H)

23,1/15,6/3,2 cm

Gewicht

773 g

Auflage

2. Auflage

Sprache

Englisch

ISBN

978-1-350-02616-2

Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: The Improv Handbook

  • 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