Impro by Keith Johnstone
In this landmark work Keith Johnstone provides a revelatory guide to rediscovering and unlocking the imagination. Admired for its clarity and zest, Impro lays bare the techniques and exercises used to foster spontaneity and narrative skill for actors. These techniques and exercises were evolved in the actors' studio, when he was Associate Director of the Royal Court and then in demonstrations to schools and colleges and ultimately in the founding of a company of performers called The Theatre Machine.
Divided into four sections, 'Status', 'Spontaneity', 'Narrative Skills' and 'Masks and Trance', arranged more or less in the order a group might approach them, the book sets out the specific approaches which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.
'If teachers were honoured in the British theatre along-side directors, designers and playwrights, Keith Johnstone would be as familiar a name as are those of . . . Jocelyn Herbert, Edward Bond and other young talents who were drawn to the great lodestone of the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s. As head of the script department, Johnstone played a crucial part in the development of the 'writers' theatre.' Irving Wardle
-
An Actor Prepares
-
A Thousand Plateaus
-
After Virtue
-
To Have or To Be?
-
Anti-Oedipus
-
Creating A Role
-
Difference and Repetition
-
Things Hidden Since the Foundation of the World
-
Logic of Sense
-
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume IV
-
Truth and Method
-
Violence and the Sacred
-
Course in General Linguistics
-
Rhythmanalysis
-
The Sexual Politics of Meat - 35th Anniversary Edition
-
Francis Bacon
-
The Politics of Aesthetics
-
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume I
-
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume III
-
Aesthetic Theory
-
The Precariat
-
Never Give In!
-
The Language of Fashion
-
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 2
-
Pedagogy of Hope
-
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 1
-
Cinema II
-
Cinema I
-
A History of the English-Speaking Peoples Volume II
-
Eclipse of Reason
-
The Second World War
-
Language of the Third Reich
-
Being and Event
-
The World Crisis Volume I
-
Policing the Crisis
-
Old Mistresses
-
The World Crisis Volume V
-
The World Crisis Volume IV
-
The Tomb of Tutankhamun: Volume 3
-
Step By Step
-
The Essence of Truth
If you don't have this book - get it quick... Johnstone's insights are as powerfully clear as ever... It's a treasure trove of ideas and methods; it will ease and enrich work and studies... An invigorating read. * Reviews Gate (August 2007) *
For insight into a truly creative mind, read Impro. * Psychologies (February 2010) *
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781350069039 |
| ISBN 10 | 1350069035 |
| Title | Impro |
| Author | Keith Johnstone |
| Series | Bloomsbury Revelations |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2018-10-18 |
| Number of pages | 208 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |