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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre (Paperback)
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all these other countries) Usually dispatched within 48 hours | |Short Description for Impro""Impro" ought to be required reading not only for theatre people generally but also for teachers, educators, and students of all kinds and persuasions. Full of excellent good sense, actual observations and inspired assertions.--"CHOICE: Books for College Libraries."
Full description- Publisher: Theatre Arts
- Published: 01 January 1987
- Format: Paperback 208 pages
- See: Full bibliographic data
- Categories: Theatre Studies | Acting Techniques
- ISBN 13: 9780878301171 ISBN 10: 0878301178
- Sales rank: 111,968
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Full description for Impro
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers, called The Theatre Machine. Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills', and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.
