Impro

Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136610456
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 206

Book Description
Keith Johnstone's involvement with the theatre began when George Devine and Tony Richardson, artistic directors of the Royal Court Theatre, commissioned a play from him. This was in 1956. A few years later he was himself Associate Artistic Director, working as a play-reader and director, in particular helping to run the Writers' Group. The improvisatory techniques and exercises evolved there to foster spontaneity and narrative skills were developed further in the actors' studio 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 techniques and exercises which Johnstone has himself found most useful and most stimulating. The result is both an ideas book and a fascinating exploration of the nature of spontaneous creativity.

Impro

Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1136610464
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 205

Impro

Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 0713687010
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 209

Book Description
An inspirational sourcebook from a recognized authority in the field of spontaneous acting

Impro for Storytellers

Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135863733
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 521

Book Description
Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.

Impro

Author: Alexander P. M. van den Bosch
Publisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 0244645140
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 42

Book Description
On he walks on a empty stage. A player comes with. The director calls out.. to the audience.. what have they goin'. The crowd cheers. Now.. the stage is set... they walk off again and

Impro Learning

Author: Paul Z. Jackson
Publisher: Gower Publishing, Ltd.
ISBN: 9780566079283
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 252

Book Description
This book encourages positive self-development in a non-directive, counselling style. Impro Learning treats creativity as the doorway to success - and provides the keys to unlock it. Drawing on sources as diverse as theatre, accelerated learning, sports, co-operative games and psychology, Paul Z Jackson reveals practical methods for enhancing all aspects of training, from joining instructions and bonding to detailed course design and evaluation. The emphasis throughout is on participation and results, and the text is packed with warm-ups, energizers, team exercises and innovative processes.

Impro for Storytellers

Author: Keith Johnstone
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135863660
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 388

Improvise Freely

Author: Patti Stiles
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780645176506
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :

Book Description
Improvisation is an art of spontaneity, freedom and impulse. Audiences the world over flock to shows where anything could happen! But lurking at the heart of many companies that perform it is a contradiction, a bait and switch. Students who sign up for classes are taught 'The Rules': the strictly right and wrong way to play make-believe. How the hell did that happen?Patti Stiles is an actor, improvisor, director, teacher and playwright who has worked professionally in theatre since 1983. In Improvise Freely, she turns 'The Rules' of improvising on their head and shows that there is another way. Is it okay to ask questions? Why do we Who? What? Where? And what if it's time to say 'No thanks' to 'Yes And'?

A Dictionary of English Normative Grammar 17001800 (DENG)

Author: Bertil Sundby
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
ISBN: 9027277680
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 498

Book Description
Eighteenth-century English grammarians plead eloquently for purity, precision and perspicuity, but their method of teaching largely amounts to citing examples of impurity, imprecision and lack of clarity from contemporary writings. This book is the first of its kind to provide a detailed systematic account of such 'errors'. Apart from source and page references, the Dictionary gives the context of the error (I have not wept this forty years), the correct or 'target' form ('these forty years'), the name of the authors quoted by the grammarians ('Addison', 'Swift'), and the labels which sum up their assessment of the error ('absurd', 'solecism'). It operates with error categories such as ambiguity, ellipsis and government (fourteen in all), which are subdivided into grammatically described main entries, subentries, and so on. The Introduction includes a guide to the use of the Dictionary, the grammatical code, and a discussion of grammatical concepts, error typologies, problems of identifying literary sources, attitudes to correctness, grammatical figures, and other topics. A Bibliography and an Index of lexical items and technical terms round off the volume. The way the Dictionary is organized should make it possible to find in it the answer to a wide variety of questions pertaining to grammar, style and linguistic historiography.

Annual Report

Author: Pennsylvania Public School Employees' Retirement Board
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 876

Book Description