The Improv Book
The Improv Book
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Summary
The Improv Book is a smart, witty and accessible manual on improv games and how and why to play them. For theatre professionals, comedy performers, teachers and anyone wanting to enhance their life skills through improv.
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The Improv Book by Alison Goldie
A smart, witty and accessible guide to the rewarding and joyful practice of improvisation. Classic improv games and variations Telling stories and creating characters Using improv to make theatre and comedy, from monologues to full-scale productions An asset to students and teachers of improvisation in schools, drama schools, higher education and theatre groups, both professional and amateur. It will also be of benefit to organisations and individual readers who want to discover how improv stimulates creativity and confidence in all areas of life. The Improv Book opens up this exciting discipline to a wider audience.
Cheerful, chatty and very informative..A readable heedable role-book, a fine fools' guide to improvisation, wherein lies plenty to plunder for those learning and teaching drama at all levels * John Hegley, poet and musician *
A wondrous toolbox for the imagination * Jake Arnott, novelist *
It's useful to be able to control yourself sometimes, and it's dreadful when it becomes a habit. The Improv Book is a treasure chest of ways to bring more zest, surprise and depth back into your life - and into the lives of your students, your employees, your children, your parents and anyone else who might need it. It's really very good. I just made that up. But it's true. * Guy Claxton, author of What's the Point of School? and Building Learning Power. *
Fabulous book, - humorous, instructive, informative - an absolute must-have for anyone interested in comedy and improvisation! * Brenda Gilhooly, comedian and TV writer *
In a world where imagination seems to be fighting a losing battle against technology, Alison Goldie has come up with a brilliant and easy to follow guide to putting people back in touch with this essential part of their creative minds...This book should be on the bloody national curriculum! * Phill Jupitus *
An absolute must-have for anyone interested in comedy and improvisation! -- Brenda Gilhooly, comedian and TV writer
A wondrous toolbox for the imagination * Jake Arnott, novelist *
It's useful to be able to control yourself sometimes, and it's dreadful when it becomes a habit. The Improv Book is a treasure chest of ways to bring more zest, surprise and depth back into your life - and into the lives of your students, your employees, your children, your parents and anyone else who might need it. It's really very good. I just made that up. But it's true. * Guy Claxton, author of What's the Point of School? and Building Learning Power. *
Fabulous book, - humorous, instructive, informative - an absolute must-have for anyone interested in comedy and improvisation! * Brenda Gilhooly, comedian and TV writer *
In a world where imagination seems to be fighting a losing battle against technology, Alison Goldie has come up with a brilliant and easy to follow guide to putting people back in touch with this essential part of their creative minds...This book should be on the bloody national curriculum! * Phill Jupitus *
An absolute must-have for anyone interested in comedy and improvisation! -- Brenda Gilhooly, comedian and TV writer
Alison Goldie is an actor, theatre director, facilitator, writer and broadcaster with a long career in making and performing theatre and comedy. She is a great believer in the power of improvisation for stimulating creativity, and developing theatre and life-skills, and is living proof that performing and teaching improv keeps you young and sexy (she says). As an improviser she performed in Theatresports™ and the legendary improv troupe Spontaneous Combustion. On the comedy circuit of the 1980s she was in the double-act The Wild Girls and a stand-up comic. On TV her credits include Newman and Baddiel in Pieces (BBC2), and presenting for The Travel Show (BBC2) and Dream Ticket (ITV) among others. She has toured internationally with her theatre company The Weird Sisters and recently toured the UK with her one-woman show Lady in Bed. She has directed for the Garrick Theatre, Unicorn Theatre, Vienna’s English Theatre and Youth Music Theatre amongst others. Alison has taught improv all over the world.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9781783191802 |
| ISBN 10 | 1783191805 |
| Title | The Improv Book |
| Author | Alison Goldie |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2015-06-18 |
| Number of pages | 296 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
| Note | Unavailable |