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Impro Improvisation and the Theatre

SKU: 9780713687019
$29.99
  • Author:
    JOHNSTONE K
  • ISBN:
    9780713687019
  • Publication Date:
    01/10/2007
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    208
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Methuen Drama
  • Country of Publication:
Impro Improvisation and the Theatre
Impro Improvisation and the Theatre

Impro Improvisation and the Theatre

SKU: 9780713687019
$29.99
  • Author:
    JOHNSTONE K
  • ISBN:
    9780713687019
  • Publication Date:
    01/10/2007
  • Edition:
    1
  • Pages:
    208
  • Binding:
    Paperback
  • Publisher:
    Methuen Drama
  • Country of Publication:

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"A hundred practical techniques for encouraging spontaneity and originality by catching the subconscious unawares, here is an inexhaustible supply of zany suggestions for unfreezing the petrified imagination" - "Daily Telegraph". 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", "NarrativeSkills" 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." If teachers were honoured in the British theatre along side directors, designers and playwrights, Keith Johnstone would be as familiar a name as are those of Jocelyn Herbert, Edward Bond and other young talents who were drawn to the great lodestone of the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s. As head of the script department, Johnstone played a crucial part in the development of the 'writers theatre'". - IrvingWardle.

Featured in the November 2007 Education & Youth Issues newsletter.
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  • "A hundred practical techniques for encouraging spontaneity and originality by catching the subconscious unawares, here is an inexhaustible supply of zany suggestions for unfreezing the petrified imagination" - "Daily Telegraph". 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", "NarrativeSkills" 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." If teachers were honoured in the British theatre along side directors, designers and playwrights, Keith Johnstone would be as familiar a name as are those of Jocelyn Herbert, Edward Bond and other young talents who were drawn to the great lodestone of the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s. As head of the script department, Johnstone played a crucial part in the development of the 'writers theatre'". - IrvingWardle.

    Featured in the November 2007 Education & Youth Issues newsletter.
    To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

"A hundred practical techniques for encouraging spontaneity and originality by catching the subconscious unawares, here is an inexhaustible supply of zany suggestions for unfreezing the petrified imagination" - "Daily Telegraph". 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", "NarrativeSkills" 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." If teachers were honoured in the British theatre along side directors, designers and playwrights, Keith Johnstone would be as familiar a name as are those of Jocelyn Herbert, Edward Bond and other young talents who were drawn to the great lodestone of the Royal Court Theatre in the late 1950s. As head of the script department, Johnstone played a crucial part in the development of the 'writers theatre'". - IrvingWardle.

Featured in the November 2007 Education & Youth Issues newsletter.
To receive this newsletter regularly please email us with your name and contact details.

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