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Title: Group Improvisation: The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games by Peter Campbell Gwinn, Charna Halpern ISBN: 1-56608-086-X Publisher: Meriwether Pub Pub. Date: June, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Nice Guidance for work on Group Dynamics
Comment: Great, thorough descriptions of lots of great group warm-ups and scene exercises. It's not a vast new continent of never-before-seen improv, but it's the clearest map I've ever seen of the very tricky terrain of group dynamics, which can make or break a performance group (or any group, for that matter). Peter Gwinn writes in a fun and playful conversational tone and the accompanying retro-tastic photos of improvisers at play are, frankly, adorable. I have met folks who trained with Gwinn, and now I join them in their wish to hug him for this contribution to the craft. Gracias!
Rating: 5
Summary: This is a great reference
Comment: For anyone coaching/directing or if you're playing on a team where you need to break into new territories and develop new forms, these games are a perfect start. This book explains what the important parts of each game are so that you bring the actual lessons to stagework, not just horse around and forget. I highly recommend the book.
Rating: 4
Summary: Consider This an Important Addendum...
Comment: ...to Charna Halpern's "Truth and Comedy." Gwinn takes an actor-centric approach to long-form improvisation, developing characters the way Del Close intended them to be. He grounds his games in terminology befitting any advanced acting technique, exploring emotion and motivation over the tricks and gimmicks synonymous with shows like "Whose Line is it Anyway?"
Gwinn has been performing and teaching at Chicago's Improv Olympic for nearly a decade, so he knows his stuff. That being said, as articulate as this book is, it should serve as a supplement, not a substitute, for first-hand experience or training in long- or short-form comedy improvisation.
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Title: Improvise. : Scene from the Inside Out by Mick Napier ISBN: 032500630X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 15 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: The Art of Chicago Improv : Short Cuts to Long-Form Improvisation by Rob Kozlowski ISBN: 032500384X Publisher: Heinemann Pub. Date: 26 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Howard Johnson ISBN: 1566080037 Publisher: Meriwether Pub Pub. Date: April, 1994 List Price(USD): $17.95 |
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Title: Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Drama and Performance Studies) by Viola Spolin, Paul Sills ISBN: 081014008X Publisher: Northwestern University Press Pub. Date: July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Acting on Impulse: The Art of Making Improv Theater by Carol Hazenfield ISBN: 0971911231 Publisher: Coventry Creek Press Pub. Date: June, 2002 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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