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How to Improvise a Full-Length Play: The Art of Spontaneous Theater
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Item specifics
- Condition
- Release Year
- 2007
- ISBN
- 9781581154931
About this product
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
ISBN-10
1581154933
ISBN-13
9781581154931
eBay Product ID (ePID)
59059879
Product Key Features
Book Title
How to Improvise a Full-Length Play : the Art of Spontaneous Theater
Number of Pages
208 Pages
Language
English
Topic
Business Aspects, Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Acting & Auditioning
Publication Year
2007
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Performing Arts
Format
Perfect
Dimensions
Item Height
5.6 in
Item Weight
9.1 Oz
Item Length
8.5 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
LCCN
2007-015623
Dewey Edition
22
Reviews
I didn't want to put this book down! But I did, because I couldn't wait to get started on the exercises. What Kenn Adams offers us here is of enormous value to the creation of scripted as well as spontaneous theater. He charts a process that helps playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors-as well as improvisers-find their stories and grip their audiences. Oh, and . . . I laughed out loud!, I didn't want to put this book down! But I did, because I couldn't wait to get started on the exercises. What Kenn Adams offers us here is of enormous value to the creation of scripted as well as spontaneous theater. He charts a process that helps playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors--as well as improvisers--find their stories and grip their audiences. Oh, and . . . I laughed out loud!, SI didn "t want to put this book down! But I did, because I couldn "t wait to get started on the exercises. What Kenn Adams offers us here is of enormous value to the creation of scripted as well as spontaneous theater. He charts a process that helps playwrights, dramaturges, directors, and actors "as well as improvisers "find their stories and grip their audiences. Oh, and . . . I laughed out loud!
Dewey Decimal
792.02/8
Synopsis
Forget the script and get on the stage! In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play, actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining characters, creating environments, establishing relationships, and more. How to Improvise a Full-Length Play is the essential tool for anyone who wants to create exceptional theater. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers., Forget the script and get on the stage In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play, actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining characters, creating environments, establishing relationships, and more. How to Improvise a Full-Length Play is the essential tool for anyone who wants to create exceptional theater. Allworth Press, an imprint of Skyhorse Publishing, publishes a broad range of books on the visual and performing arts, with emphasis on the business of art. Our titles cover subjects such as graphic design, theater, branding, fine art, photography, interior design, writing, acting, film, how to start careers, business and legal forms, business practices, and more. While we don't aspire to publish a New York Times bestseller or a national bestseller, we are deeply committed to quality books that help creative professionals succeed and thrive. We often publish in areas overlooked by other publishers and welcome the author whose expertise can help our audience of readers., Forget the script and get on the stage! In "How to Improvise a Full-Length Play," actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining characters, creating environments, establishing relationships, and more. "How to Improvise a Full-Length Play "is the essential tool for anyone who wants to create exceptional theater., Presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. This book features hints and tips on the basics of performance improvisation - including spontaneity, connection, collaboration, and the learning the needs of a well constructed play.
LC Classification Number
PN2071.I5A33 2008
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