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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 Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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 Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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Improvise: Scene From The Inside Out by Mick Napier Typically combative approach from mainstay of Chicago's Annoyance Theater. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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. Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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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) Buy now from Amazon.co.uk |
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