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Paperback Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre Book

ISBN: 0878301178

ISBN13: 9780878301171

Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

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First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company. This description may be from another edition of this product.

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6 customer ratings | 5 reviews

Rated 5 stars
entertaining and inspiring

I read most of this in one sitting! It's that engrossing. Mr. Johnstone's writing is very lucid and the anecdotes he provides are illuminating, concise and memorable. The best chapter was about narrative ... it taught me what a story is and isn't. That lesson alone is worth the price of this book. I'm a novelist, but found this to be a better stimulus than most of the "how to write fiction" manuals or writing classes out...

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Not a theatre book, but a teacher's manifesto

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...

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The bible of creativity! Buy this book!

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...

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Impro is actually 6 distinct books in one.

This book is actually 6 books in one. Apart from being one of the foremost authorities in the art of improv theater (1), it is 2)the finest example (I've found)of comic theory; 3)a sociology essay; 4)a concise guide to basic storytelling; 5) an amazingly progressive 'how to' teaching manual; and 6)a clear map into the creative process. There are likely other applications that I have yet to discover. This book is seminal,...

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Possibly the most important book in theatre education . . .

Keith Johnstone is a maverick educator and theatrical innovator. This book, first published in 1979, remains the most important book on improvisation written in English. Johnstone divides the world of improvising into four categories:Spontenaity, Narrative, Status and Masks. The stories about his own loss of creativity through the demands of public education set the frame for his illuminating description of what it takes...

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