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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.
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.
"The Improv Handbook" is a great new guide that covers the history
of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the
fundamentals of storytelling.Although there are already several
successful books on the market about the theory and practice of
improvised theatre, there's nothing comprehensive, helpful, fun and
full of experience and advice."The Improv Handbook" is a great new
guide from a husband and wife team who have years of studying,
performance and teaching behind them. Beginning with a history of
improvisation, the book works through different types of format and
performance including TheatreSports and the inventions of Keith
Johnstone and Del Close. The core section of the book is called,
simply, "How To Improvise" and includes chapters on spontaneity,
the fundamentals of storytelling, working together, upping the ante
and characters.Having established the fundamentals, the two authors
go on to elaborate on more advanced techniques and skills. The book
concludes with sections on how to improvise in front of an audience
and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first
place." The Improv Handbook" should become a standard book in the
field - it's smart, fun, helpful, and inspiring, and it's on a
mission to bring Improv to a much wider audience.
THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER 'Breathes life into conversations about
feminism' PHOEBE WALLER-BRIDGE 'Very funny, very clever, very
thoughtful and very relevant' DOLLY ALDERTON Why do we find it so
hard to say 'No'? How can feminism be more inclusive? What can
rom-coms tell us about taking charge? The Guilty Feminist will
challenge you, reassure you and empower you to see the world
differently. From inclusion to intersectionality, #MeToo to men's
rights, rom-coms to pornography, Deborah Frances-White tackles
urgent questions for the modern woman. Featuring interviews with
activists, businesswomen and all-round inspirations, The Guilty
Feminist examines how women can abandon their guilt, say No (when
they mean it), say Yes (when they want to), and to change the world
- and ourselves - for the better. Includes interviews with Jessamyn
Stanley * Zoe Coombs Marr * Susan Wokoma * Phoebe Waller-Bridge *
Hannah Gadsby * Reubs Walsh * Bisha K. Ali * Becca Bunce * Mo
Mansfield * Leyla Hussein * Amika George 'Genius' Sunday Times
'Funny, fresh, thought-provoking' Observer 'Everything you wanted
to know about feminism but were afraid to ask' EMMA THOMPSON 'Quite
possibly the defining feminist of our generation' ELIZABETH DAY
'Encouraging every woman to say: "I get to be heard. I deserve to
be seen" ' Daily Express 'A passionate and engaging manifesto,
reminding readers that feminism isn't one-size-fits-all' I
"The Improv Handbook" is a great new guide that covers the history
of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the
fundamentals of storytelling.Although there are already several
successful books on the market about the theory and practice of
improvised theatre, there's nothing comprehensive, helpful, fun and
full of experience and advice."The Improv Handbook" is a great new
guide from a husband and wife team who have years of studying,
performance and teaching behind them. Beginning with a history of
improvisation, the book works through different types of format and
performance including TheatreSports and the inventions of Keith
Johnstone and Del Close. The core section of the book is called,
simply, "How To Improvise" and includes chapters on spontaneity,
the fundamentals of storytelling, working together, upping the ante
and characters.Having established the fundamentals, the two authors
go on to elaborate on more advanced techniques and skills. The book
concludes with sections on how to improvise in front of an audience
and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first
place." The Improv Handbook" should become a standard book in the
field - it's smart, fun, helpful, and inspiring, and it's on a
mission to bring Improv to a much wider audience.
What is it to be a stand-up comedian? To be funny, solo? You have
no character-role, no double-act partner, and nowhere to look but
out into the darkness, with just a microphone, an audience and your
imagination. This is a job without an annual appraisal; a job where
you are publicly appraised every ten seconds. The results are harsh
and obvious: if the audience isn't laughing, you 'died'; if they
can't stop, you 'killed'. Deborah Frances-White and Marsha Shandur
unpack the inner-workings of the minds of comics, sharing their
secrets, insecurities and successes; their betes noires and their
biggest fears. Featuring interviews with a host of comedians
including Eddie Izzard, Moshe Kasher, Sarah Millican, Jim Jeffries,
Stewart Lee, Lewis Black, Jenny Eclair, Todd Barry, Richard
Herring, Marc Maron, Stephen K Amos, Rich Hall, Zoe Lyons, Marcus
Brigstocke, Phill Jupitus, Gary Delaney, Mark Watson, Greg Davies
and many more, this excellent book lets you in to the hearts and
minds of celebrated comedians, away from the stage and off the mic.
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