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Author Spolin, Viola.

Title Improvisation for the theatre : a handbook of teaching and directing techniques / Viola Spolin
Published Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, [1963]
©1963

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 MELB  792.028 S762I  AVAILABLE
Description xxv, 395 pages ; 24 cm
Contents Part I: Theory and foundation -- Creative experience -- Workshop procedures -- Part II: Exercises -- Orientation -- Where -- Acting with the whole body -- Non-directional blocking -- Refining awareness -- Speech, broadcasting, and technical effects -- Developing material for situations -- Rounding-out exercises -- Emotion -- Character -- Part III: Children and the theater -- Understanding the child -- Fundamentals for child actors -- Workshop for six-to-eight-year-olds -- Part IV: The formal theater -- Preparation -- Rehearsal and performance -- Post-mortem and special problems
Summary Presents over two hundred theatre games which bring theatre experience to amateurs of every age and interest
Notes Bibliography: p. 397
Bibliography Includes bibliography
Notes Also issued online
Subject Amateur theater.
Improvisation (Acting)
Improvisation (Acting) -- Study and teaching.
Plays -- Improvisation.
LC no. 63007579
ISBN 0810102498