Improvisation for the Theater

<p>2017 Reprint of 1963 Edition.  Full facsimile of the original edition not reproduced with Optical Recognition software.  “An iconoclastic handbook of theater by the high priestess of improvisational theater in this country…  The exercises are artifices against artificiality structures designed to almost fool spontaneity into being—or perhaps a frame carefully built to keep out interferences in which the student-actor waits… Genius unguarded “happens” and stage fright awkward movements poor enunciation phoniness lack of characterization in fact nearly every ill ever witnessed on stage disappears…  Those in theater film makers included will find this an important document in practice and theory; it is a bit like Natural Childbirth to obstetrics”—Film Quarterly.</p>