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Title: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone ISBN: 0-87830-117-8 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.85 (20 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Not a theatre book, but a teacher's manifesto
Comment: Keith Johnstone's book has influenced countless acting classes. Many artists who have not yet heard of this book are doing exercises based on his experiments in England with actors using improvisation to discover status operations within a scene, narrative structure, and the importance of structure and process over "content" (a sticking point for the improvisator, the public speaker, and everyone who has ever said, 'I can't think of anything.') It also provides one of the best short introductions to mask work around. So it might seem like an indispensable theatre book. And it is that. Indispensable.
Yet read Johnstone's first chapter - a memoir of his early teaching career, in which he discovered the process by which children learn to be uncreative as a tragic coping skill. This is not a theatre book. Theatre classes were the arena, but this is a book about teaching! This is about opening doors that have been slammed shut, and acquainting people with the creativity and exuberance that is everybody's birthright. The exercises, and analyses of his students' work with improvisation, along with Johnstone's unflagging faith in every person's imagination, have much to show us even on repeated readings and practice.
Rating: 5
Summary: The bible of creativity! Buy this book!
Comment: This book is the absolute bible of improv and acting. Keith Johnstone takes you step by step through his approach to teaching. The exercises he uses really work to get our intellects out of the way of our creativity.
The section on status is extremely useful. As a testament, I used some of them in my beginning improv class and amazing things happened. The class understood and became more aware of how we use status in every moment of our lives. Scenes immediately became more interesting and real. I look forward to the mask activities. The only negative comment I can make is that a few of the exercises were not clearly explained. Johnstone's descriptions, at times, assume previous knowledge of the game being described. This is a book every actor and improver should read. It will expand your creativity and improve your physical awareness onstage. Enjoy it!
Rating: 4
Summary: Absolutely entrancing
Comment: I'm not an actor, have no experience of improvisational theatre (not even seen any!), but I loved this book. A fascinating glimpse into a highly creative and original mind, and funny as heck, especially the section on Status. This book would be of interest to teachers, particularly those teaching arts (including but not limited to language arts).
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Title: Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson ISBN: 1566080037 Publisher: Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Keith Johnstone ISBN: 0878301054 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1999 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills ISBN: 081014008X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Theater Games for the Lone Actor by Viola Spolin, Carol Sills, Paul Sills ISBN: 0810140101 Publisher: Northwestern Publishing House Pub. Date: 01 September, 2001 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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Title: Games for Actors and Non--Actors by Augusto Boal, Adrian Jackson ISBN: 0415267080 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: July, 2002 List Price(USD): $25.95 |
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