The Improv Handbook Performance Books Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond

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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.

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A guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling. It also includes sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first place.

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Pages: 520, Edition: 2, Paperback, Methuen Drama