Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques - Softcover

Spolin, Viola

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1684221439 ISBN 13: 9781684221431

Publisher: Martino Fine Books, 2017

Synopsis

2017 Reprint of 1963 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  “An iconoclastic handbook of theater by the high priestess of improvisational theater in this country…  The exercises are artifices against artificiality, structures designed to almost fool spontaneity into being—or perhaps a frame, carefully built to keep out interferences, in which the student-actor waits… Genius, unguarded, “happens” and stage fright, awkward movements, poor enunciation, phoniness, lack of characterization, in fact nearly every ill ever witnessed on stage, disappears…  Those in theater, film makers included, will find this an important document in practice and theory; it is a bit like Natural Childbirth to obstetrics”—Film Quarterly.

Edition details

• Publisher: Martino Fine Books
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1684221439
• ISBN 13: 9781684221431
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 422