Improvisation for the theater : a handbook of teaching and directing techniques / by Viola Spolin.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublication details: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 1952.Edition: 3rd edDescription: lv, 412 p. ; 24 cmISBN:
  • 0810140098
  • 9780810140097
  • 081014008X (pbk.)
  • 9780810140080 (pbk.)
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • PN 2071 .I5 S6 1952
Partial contents:
Theory and foundation: ch. I. Creative experience -- ch. II. Workshop procedures -- Exercises: ch. III. Orientation -- ch. IV. Where -- ch. V. Acting with the whole body -- ch. VI. Non-directional blocking -- ch. VII. Refining awareness -- ch. VIII. Broadcasting and technical effects -- ch. IX. Developing material for situations -- ch. X. Speech and rounding-out exercises -- ch. XI. Emotion -- ch. XII. Character -- Children and the theater: ch. XIII. Understanding the child -- ch. XIV. Fundamentals for the child actor -- Ch. XV. Workshop for six-to-eight-year-olds -- Formal theater and improvisational theater: ch. XVI. Preparation -- ch. XVII. Rehearsal and performance -- ch. XVIII. Post-mortem and special problems.
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This edition co-edited by Carol Bleackley Sills and Paul Sills.

Includes bibliographical references.

Theory and foundation: ch. I. Creative experience -- ch. II. Workshop procedures -- Exercises: ch. III. Orientation -- ch. IV. Where -- ch. V. Acting with the whole body -- ch. VI. Non-directional blocking -- ch. VII. Refining awareness -- ch. VIII. Broadcasting and technical effects -- ch. IX. Developing material for situations -- ch. X. Speech and rounding-out exercises -- ch. XI. Emotion -- ch. XII. Character -- Children and the theater: ch. XIII. Understanding the child -- ch. XIV. Fundamentals for the child actor -- Ch. XV. Workshop for six-to-eight-year-olds -- Formal theater and improvisational theater: ch. XVI. Preparation -- ch. XVII. Rehearsal and performance -- ch. XVIII. Post-mortem and special problems.

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