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The Improv Handbook: Bloomsbury 3PL

Autor Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances-White
en Limba Engleză Hardback – mai 2008

Prezentându-se ca un obiect impresionant pe masa de lucru a oricărui practician, acest volum de 520 de pagini publicat sub egida Methuen Drama reprezintă una dintre cele mai vaste resurse dedicate artei de a gândi rapid. Reținem că această a doua ediție a The Improv Handbook nu este doar un manual tehnic, ci o explorare senzorială a modului în care anxietatea de pe scenă poate fi transformată în energie creativă prin tehnici riguroase de prezență și spontaneitate.

Notăm cu interes modul în care Tom Salinsky și Deborah Frances-White — ambii cu o experiență vastă la The Spontaneity Shop și RADA — structurează materialul. Cartea progresează fluid de la o arheologie a improvizației, trecând prin moștenirea lăsată de Keith Johnstone, până la mecanismele intime ale „acceptării” (saying yes) și ale jocurilor de statut. Ca și Impro, volumul pune în valoare deblocarea imaginației prin exerciții practice, dar cu un accent pe formatele moderne de spectacol și pe strategiile de atragere a publicului, oferind un context mult mai aplicat scenei contemporane de comedie.

Experiența de lectură este una densă, dar ritmată de anecdote din cariera autorilor. În timp ce Deborah Frances-White aduce în discuție rigoarea din Off the Mic, aici accentul cade pe dinamica de grup și pe construcția narativă instantanee. Secțiunea „How to Improvise” este inima volumului, oferind cititorului instrumente pentru a naviga imprevizibilul, de la gestionarea „statutului” pe scenă până la rezolvarea problemelor dramatice în timp real. Este o lucrare care transformă teoria teatrală într-un ghid de supraviețuire creativă, esențial pentru oricine urcă pe scenă sau vorbește în fața unui public.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780826428592
ISBN-10: 0826428592
Pagini: 440
Ilustrații: 50
Dimensiuni: 170 x 244 x 25 mm
Greutate: 0.9 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury 3PL
Seria Bloomsbury 3PL

Locul publicării:New York, United States

De ce să citești această carte

Această carte se adresează actorilor, comedianților și vorbitorilor publici care doresc să își stăpânească emoțiile și să își dezvolte spontaneitatea. Cititorul câștigă acces la decenii de experiență pedagogică de la The Spontaneity Shop, învățând nu doar cum să improvizeze, ci și cum să construiască povești coerente sub presiune. Este un instrument concret pentru a înlocui blocajele creative cu tehnici de performanță verificate la nivel internațional.


Caracteristici

A dynamic husband/wife co-author team based in London, and with Improv contacts all around the world.

Descriere scurtă

The most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improve available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes.From The Improv Handbook: The problem for improvisers is anxiety. faced with a lot of nameless eyes staring at us, and feeling more than anything else like prey, we are likely to want to display very consistent behavior, so that anyone who looks at us, looks away and then looks back sees the same thing. Thus we become boring, we fade into the background, and we cease to be of interest. The Improv Handbook provides everything someone interested in improvisational comedy needs to know, as written by a husband and wife comedy duo with years of experience and teaching in the field. in addition to providing a comprehensive history of improvisational theater as a backdrop, it also looks at modern theories and practices of improvisation on a global scale, including how the form of comedy has evolved differently in different parts of the world, from Europe to the UK to the Chicago scene. The Improv Handbook also contains an essential performance segment that details different formats of improvisation. Chapter topics include Theatresports, Micetro, Gorilla Theatre, and the inventions of Keith Johnstone and Del Close as well as other popular forms of improv, like those on "Whose Line is it Anyway." The core section of the book is called simply, "How to Improvise" and delves into issues of spontaneity, the fundamentals of storytelling, working together, upping the ante, and character development. The book concludes with sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and- just as crucially- how to attract an audience in the first place.

Cuprins

Part One: Improvisation History Antiquity: Forms of improvisation from before the 20th CenturyJohnstone / Calgary: Keith Johnstone, the Theatre Machine, and the Loose MooseClose / Chicago: Del Close and the Chicago sceneSpolin: The Compass Players and Viola Spolin's continuing influenceThe World Over: The spread of improvised theatre across Europe, America and the rest of the worldThe Spontaneity Shop / UK: Improvisation in the UK - a personal history Performance TheatreSports: The grandaddy of them allMicetro, Gorilla Theatre, LifeGame: Later inventions of Keith JohnstoneThe Harold and Its Relations: Del Close's way of doing thingsThe Rest: Less interesting, influential, or popular forms: "Whose Line Is It Anyway"; "Improvised" films and television; TellTales; X-improvised. Intermission: Great Teachers Part Two: How to ImproviseCore BeliefsStorytelling: Improvisation isn't about jokes, or about "anything goes". It's about telling a story.Failure - on and off the stage: Why "we suck and we love to fail" is the most important thing anyone's ever said to us. How To Use This Section Day OneSpontaneity: Pointing at things; What are you doing?Saying "Yes": Block/Offer/Accept; Yes and... Day TwoFundamentals of Storytelling: Platforms - go through an unusual door; Breaking routines; The right trouble for the right hero; Reincorporation Day ThreeStatus: What status is and what it isn't; High status and low status "triggers"; Status and space; Status is relative Day FourWorking Together: Tug of war; Word at a time; Speak in one voice; Dubbing Day FiveBeing Changed: Status switch; Gibberish; It's Tuesday Day SixUpping the Ante: Jump and justify; Boris; He said she said; Questions onlyYou can't learn mime from a book Day SevenCharacters: Changing the body image; Characters from a hat Day Eight: Blind OffersIntermission: The rules and why there aren't any Part Three: How To Improve All Talk and No ActionSilent scenesGibberishThree word sentencesCan't Define, Won't DefineSolid as a RockShoe shopsIt's TuesdayThe Gagmeister GeneralStory WoesContinue or thank youShoe shopsCharacterTwinsIntermission: Game CorruptionPart Four: How To Improvise In PublicFeel the Fear and Do It AnywayNuts and BoltsThe groupThe venuePress and publicityPreparationOn the dayNext stepsPick Your FormatLicensed formatsUnlicensed formatsInnovating formatsIntermission: Truth in Comedy in Bits and PiecesPart Five: How To Improvise All Over the WorldGetting On the TelevisionGetting On the Festival CircuitHosting Your Own FestivalIntermission: "Please don't..."Part Six: Making Improvisation PayThe Corporate MarketCorporate TrainingCorporate EntertainmentIntermission: Why ImprovisationPart Seven: Talk the Talk - Interviews with ImprovisersTom and Deborah interview each otherKeith JohnstoneDan O'ConnorPatti StilesPaul SillsCharna HalpernPlus several more alumni of shows like Saturday Night Live and The Daily Show, who we should be able to includePart Eight: Final ThoughtsGlossary, bibliography, index, useful contacts

Recenzii

Title mention in Bookseller Buyers Guide.
"Cofounders of the London-based improvisational theater company The Spontaneity Shop, Salinsky and Frances-White provide a wonderful addition to the growing literature on theatrical improvisation. The book can serve as both a scholarly resource, since it covers the history of improvisation from its beginnings to the present, and a practical guide, for the beginner and advanced improviser... The authors include interviews with ten leading international improvisers, and they conclude with an appendix that details many of the most common improvisational games used in academic and professional settings. This book is a must for institutions supporting theater and performance programs. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers, all levels." -S.W. Cole, CHOICE, January 2009

Descriere

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The Improv Handbook is the most comprehensive, smart, helpful and inspiring guide to improv available today. Applicable to comedians, actors, public speakers and anyone who needs to think on their toes, it features a range of games, interviews, descriptions and exercises that illuminate and illustrate the exciting world of improvised performance.

First published in 2008, this second edition features a new foreword by comedian Mike McShane, as well as new exercises on endings, managing blind offers and master-servant games, plus new and expanded interviews with Keith Johnstone, Neil Mullarkey, Jeffrey Sweet and Paul Rogan.

The Improv Handbook is a one-stop guide to the exciting world of improvisation. Whether you're a beginner, an expert, or would just love to try it if you weren't too scared, The Improv Handbook will guide you every step of the way.