The improv handbook : the ultimate guide to improvising in comedy, theatre, and beyond / Tom Salinksy and Deborah Frances-White ; foreword by Mike McShane.
Foreword -- Introduction to the second edition -- Introduction -- What is improvisation? What was improvisation? ; Improvisation in performance ; Intermission: "What should improvisation be?" ; "From innovation to art form" ; "Two stories" -- How to improvise. How to use this section ; Teaching and learning ; Spontaneity ; Saying yes ; What comes next ; Status ; Go through an unusual door ; Working together ; Being changed ; More on masters and servants ; Twitching, topping and paperflicking ; Playing characters ; You can't learn mime from a book ; Control freak ; Finding the game in the scene ; Continue or thank you ; Agree, agree, agree ; Playing games ; Final thoughts ; Intermission: The rules and why there aren't any... -- How to improvise in public. Feel the fear and do it anyway ; Starting a company ; Nuts and bolts -- Making improvisation pay. Performing? ; Teaching workshops ; Corporate entertainment ; Corporate training ; Corporate events ; How to get corporate work ; Intermission: Women in improv -- Talking to improvisers. Keith Johnstone---The innovator ; Neil Mullarkey---The Comedy Store player ; Randy Dixon---The synthesizer ; Jonathan Pitts---The impresario ; Charna Halpern---The keeper of the Harold ; Mick Napier---Power improviser ; Dan O'Connor---West Coast legend ; Patti Stiles---Our teacher ; David Fenton---Theatresports MC down under ; Tobias Menzies---The actor ; Jeffrey Sweet---Illegitimate grandfather of American improv ; Dylan Emery---Starter of Showstopper ; Paul Rogan---An English actor and improviser in LA ; Mike McShane---Transatlantic improviser and actor ; Tom Salinsky discusses the improv show Voices in your head and its spin-offs with Deborah Frances-White -- Afterword -- Appendix one: Games -- Appendix two: Syllabus.
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