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Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre

by Keith Johnstone

The bible of improvisation and one of the most inspiring books you'll ever read on any subject

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Impro for Storytellers

by Keith Johnstone

Less inspirational but more detailed and more up-to-date. Highly recommended but not before you've been to a few workshops.

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The Improv Handbook

by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances-White

You didn't think we'd leave this one out did you? All about improvisation The Spontaneity Shop way.

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Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation

by Del Close, Charna Halpern, Kim "Howard" Johnson

The Chicago improv bible - very badly written and rather flimsy but required reading since the Del Close style is so popular in the USA

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Improvisation for the Theater

by Viola Spolin

The third member of improv's holy trinity - it was Spolin and her son Paul Sills who first inspired Del Close.

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Improvise: Scene From The Inside Out

by Mick Napier

Typically combative approach from mainstay of Chicago's Annoyance Theater.

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Something Like A Drug: An Unauthorized Oral History of Theatresports

by Clem Martini, Kathleen Foreman

Accounts of how Theatresports came to be by those who saw it happen. Contains many fascinating interviews with the great and the good.

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Something Wonderful Right Away: Oral History of the Second City and the Compass Players

by Jeffrey Sweet

And here's how the Compass Players begat Second City (which later begat ImprovOlympic)

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