Improvisation for the Theatre

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Spolin, Viola

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Improvisation For The Theater A Handbook Of Teaching And Directing Techniques

History

Franklin Classics

Here is the thoroughly revised third edition of the bible of improvisational theater.Viola Spolin's improvisational techniques changed the very nature and practice of modern theater. The first two editions of Improvisation for the Theater sold more than 100,000 copies and inspired actors, directors, teachers, and writers in theater, television, film. These techniques have also influenced the fields of education, mental health, social work, and psychology.Also available: Spolin's Theater Game File

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Northwestern University Press

A multimedia companion to Theater Games for the Classroom, that makes teaching acting easier and more exciting

Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Classroom

Northwestern Univ Pr

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director’s Handbook, first published in 1985, is a practical application of Viola Spolin’s famous method that guides directors and their companies step-by-step through all phases of the rehearsal period. Spolin shows in easy-to-follow detail how her techniques can be used for a variety of theater situations, ranging from selecting plays or material to be performed, casting, and building a harmonious company to warming up actors, creating stage space, and overcoming opening night jitters. 
The edition reflects Spolin’s wished-for updates: five important exercises have been added, and instructions presenting her improvisational approach have been clarified throughout. Her wealth of useful notes remain undiminished. Sidecoaching instructions and game evaluations are boxed and highlighted for on-the-spot reading by the director, in rehearsal.
Viola Spolin has been called "the high priestess of improvisational theater," and the method that she created andpresented in her books not only remains the pedagogical standard but has found an even wider audience beyond theater. Featuring a new foreword by renowned film director Rob Reiner, the updated edition is a necessary addition to any theater bookshelf.

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, Updated Edition

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Advice and guidelines on improvization aspects in the theatre.

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

In Force, Drive, Desire, Rudolf Bernet develops a philosophical foundation of psychoanalysis focusing on human drives. Rather than simply drawing up a list of Freud's borrowings from Schopenhauer and Nietzsche, or Lacan's from Hegel and Sartre, Bernet orchestrates a dialogue between philosophy and psychoanalysis that goes far beyond what these eminent psychoanalysts knew about philosophy. By relating the writings of Freud, Lacan, and other psychoanalysts to those of Aristotle, Leibniz, Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, and, more tacitly, Bergson and Deleuze, Bernet brings to light how psychoanalysis both prolongs and breaks with the history of Western metaphysics and philosophy of nature. Rereading the long history of metaphysics (or at least a few of its key moments) in light of psychoanalytic inquiries into the nature and function of drive and desire also allows for a rewriting of the history of philosophy. Specifically, it allows Bernet to bring to light a different history of metaphysics, one centered less on Aristotelian substance (ousia) and more on the concept of dunamis--a power or potentiality for a realization toward which it strives with all its might. Relating human drives to metaphysical forces also bears fruit for a renewed philosophy of life and subjectivity.

Humor & Entertainment

Gives advice on selecting a play, auditioning a cast, and creating a stage space, shows how to conduct acting workshops, and demonstrates rehearsal techniques

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook

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Improvisation for the Theatre

Improvisation For The Theater A Handbook Of Teaching And Directing Techniques

Improvisation For The Theater A Handbook Of Teaching And Directing Techniques

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Viola Spolin's Theater Games for the Classroom

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook, Updated Edition

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques (Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy)

Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook

Theater Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook