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Divided into four parts -Status, Spontaneity, Narrative Skills, Masks and Ecstasy- which are presented approximately in the order that a theater group might approach them, the book showcases the techniques and exercises that Keith Johnstone himself considered to be the most useful and interesting.
The result is a book of ideas and at the same time a thrilling exploration of the nature of spontaneous creation. The book is the fruit of twenty years of patient and original work. It is a wise, practical, and hilarious guide for the survival of imagination.
It is a necessary read for anyone with an artistic temperament who has had the same experience as the author: seeing their gift seemingly shrink and fade away. [...] By rediscovering the imaginary world of childhood, it reevaluates the building blocks that constitute it.
What constitutes a story? What makes people laugh? Which relationships capture the audience's attention and why? How does the improviser think about the next step? Is conflict dramaturgically necessary? [...] The book provides surprising and always useful answers to these and other fundamental questions, which expand the limits of theater into the transactions of everyday life.
The first thought that comes to mind when reading these games for actors is to try them out on one's children or oneself. [...] Like all great proponents of the unconscious, Johnstone is a staunch rationalist. He brings a sharp mind, cultivated in anthropology and psychology, to the service of demolishing intellectualism in theater.
Where there is no technical terminology, he develops his own practical terms in order to give a name to the indescribable.
[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]
Manufacturer
- Author
- Keith Johnstone
- Publisher
- Okto
- Original Title
- Impro, Improvisation and the Theatre
- Language
- Greek
- Cover
- Soft
- Number of Pages
- 235
- Release Date
- 9/2011
- Publication Date
- 2011
- Award
- -
- Dimensions
- 14x23 cm
- Art Movement
- Modernism
- Art Albums
- No
- Subjects
- Cinema, Theatre, Theory & History of Art
- ISBN-13
- 9789609918695
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