Improv Handbook for the Actor
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Improv! Handbook for the Actor
Greg Atkins
Heinemann - 13.95 USD
Not a bad book, a good introduction. Atkins mainly sticks to games, and uses these games as a guideline to explain what Improv is all about. The book also contains an outline for a 15 week workshop.
Atkins stresses (among other things) Trust in a group of players, and that is something not many other books about Improv highlight.
The book is well structured, sometimes a bit too much oriented towards working with actors (rather than students in general) but, compared to Improvization for the Theatre it is really practical.
The book does miss the fundamentals about Improv, as found in Johnstone's work ( Impro , Impro for Storytellers ) but at the same time, the book is probably more accessible than Johnstone's.