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Impro : improvisation and the theatre
- Title
- Impro : improvisation and the theatre / Keith Johnstone ; with an introduction by Irving Wardle.
- Author
- Johnstone, Keith.
- Publication
- New York : Routledge, 1989, ©1981.
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- Description
- 208 pages; 22 cm
- Summary
- A leading figure in the theatre, Keith Johnstone lays bare his techniques and exercises 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.
- Subject
- Note
- "A Theatre Arts book."
- "First published in paperback in 1981 by Methuen Drama ... originally published in hardback by Faber and Faber Ltd., 1979"--Title page verso.
- Contents
- Introduction -- Notes on myself -- Status -- Spontaneity -- Narrative skills -- Mask and trance -- Appendix.
- ISBN
- 0878301178
- 9780878301171
- OCLC
- ocn153731155
- 153731155
- SCSB-14544141
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries