The Comedy Improv Handbook

A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance

Matt Fotis, Siobhan O'Hara

• Éditeur: Routledge
• Année: 2015
• ISBN:
  9781317390176
• Édition: 1
• Sujet: Media & Performing Arts
• Sous-sujet: Television

The Comedy Improv Handbook: A Comprehensive Guide to University Improvisational Comedy in Theatre and Performance is a one-stop resource for both improv teachers and students, covering improv history, theory, maxims, exercises, games, and structures. You will learn the necessary skills and techniques needed to become a successful improviser, developing a basic understanding of the history of improvisation and its major influences, structures, and theories. This book also addresses issues associated with being a college improviser – like auditions, rehearsals, performances, and the dynamics of improv groups.

Index

1, 2, 3 people walking warm-up 91

1–10 walking warm-up 75–6

185 game 142

A–B exercise 107

A–C patterns exercise 94–6

Abbott, Bud 10

Abbott & Costello 9, 10

access to money 188

accessibility 176

ACME Comedy 201

active choices 35

active listening 37–8

activities, talking about 62

actor’s nightmare game 132

ad game exercise 100–1

advertising a show 177–8

agreement 35, 36–7; exercises 69, 100–1

Alexander, Andrew 15

Alk, Howard 14

alphabet game 124

Annoyance, The 26–7; professional training 194

ants on a cracker warm-up 74–5

appearance 182

aristocrats (non-masked characters) 8

Armando Diaz structure 28, 163–4

ask the audience games 119, 140–1

associative scenes 164

ASSSSCAT 28, 163–4

audience interview 161

audience suggestions, soliciting 181–2

audience text...