Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

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Northwestern University Press, 1999 - Performing Arts - 412 pages
Here is the thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.

Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.

Also available: Spolin's Theater Game File
 

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Common terms and phrases

acting action activity actors agree allow audience avoid become begin body bring called character child coach comes communication complete concentration continues create develop dialogue direct director emotion energy enter environment EVALUATION example exercise experience feel fellow players focus gibberish give given hands head heighten hold improvisational individual integrated intuitive involvement keep lines look mirror motion move movement natural necessary object organic performance physical play players POINTS OF OBSERVATION possible present problem props reading reality rehearsal relation relationship repeated response scene Share SIDE-COACHING simple solve sound space speak speech spontaneity stage stop story student-actors sub-team suggest teacher teacher-director tell theater things thought tion trying understand voice walk watch whole workshop young

About the author (1999)

Viola Spolin, the originator of theater games, was introduced to the use of games, storytelling, folk dance, and dramatics as tools for stimulating creative expression in the 1920s while a student of Neva Boyd at Chicago's Hull House. During her years as a teacher and supervisor of creative dramatics there, she began to develop her nonverbal, nonpsychological approach. Her books have been translated into Swedish, German, and Portuguese. She died in 1994. Paul Sills is Viola Spolin's son and the founding director of Chicago's Second City and of Story Theater. He is the coeditor of the third edition of Improvisation for the Theater.

Bibliographic information

TitleImprovisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques
AuthorViola Spolin
PublisherNorthwestern University Press, 1999
ISBN081014008X, 9780810140080
Length412 pages
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