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Title: Impro for Storytellers (Theatre Arts (Routledge Paperback)) by Keith Johnstone ISBN: 0-87830-105-4 Publisher: Routledge Pub. Date: June, 1999 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.9 (10 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Best Improv manual out there
Comment: This book should be every improvisers bible. As if Impro wasn't enough, Johnstone's new book focuses solely on improv, while his last dealt a great deal with his personal past and teachings. Johnstone describes tons of incredible short-form games, which could all be used in developing a long-form troupes unity and confidence. There is not much else to say, but if you consider yourself an improviser this book should live on your bedstand.
Rating: 5
Summary: Handbook for practitioners
Comment: Keith Johnstone's earlier work, IMPRO, has influenced and will continue to influence the way acting and improvisation for the theatre are taught. IMPRO is a book not only about theatre and improv, but about teaching and human interaction, loaded with insights making that book highly suitable for the general reader.
This follow-up is more specialized: a handbook for putting IMPRO into practice, including detailed improv structures for performance and for rehearsal, and chapters on how to teach these games. Sample run lists and notes from performances impart Johnstone's experiences, trials and errors over many years teaching in several countries. The book is exhaustive and beautifully written, but for the general reader, IMPRO is more appropriate.
One disappointment about the book is some sloppy copy-editing. It is rife with typos, of the sort that are not picked out by a computer spell-checker since the typos form actual words.
The title IMPRO FOR STORYTELLERS is, as Tim Sheppard pointed out below, potentially misleading. This is not a book that will help a solo performer generate material, though some of the exercises within can be translated for that purpose. Johnstone's concern is that improv not be restricted to a form of "light entertainment" (think "Who's Line Is It Anyway?"), but as a way of generating narrative and using it to explore human relationships.
Rating: 5
Summary: Essential Improv Reading!
Comment: I thought that Keith Johnstone's first book "Impro" was the best book on Improv -- until I read this. Impro For Storytellers is chock full of imaginative games that will make any improv workshop (or communications training) sparkle with creative fun and learning by taking the pressure off of being creative.
If you want the best collection of improv games since Spolins "Improvisation for the Theatre", this is it. Johnstone paces the book with wonderful stories of how the games have been used under all sorts of circumstances, with a brilliant and dry sense of wit. If you are interested in improv, please read this book!
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Title: Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre by Keith Johnstone ISBN: 0878301178 Publisher: Theatre Arts Books Pub. Date: 01 June, 1979 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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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: 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: 01 July, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Group Improvisation: The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games by Peter Campbell Gwinn, Charna Halpern, Peter Gwinn ISBN: 156608086X Publisher: Meriwether Publishing, Ltd. Pub. Date: 01 June, 2003 List Price(USD): $15.95 |
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Title: Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership, and Learning by Kat Koppett ISBN: 1579220339 Publisher: Stylus Publishing, LLC. Pub. Date: June, 2001 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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