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How to Improvise a Full-Length Play The Art of Spontaneous Theater

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ISBN-10: 1581154933

ISBN-13: 9781581154931

Edition: 2008

Authors: Kenn Adams

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Forget the script and get on the stage! InHow to Improvise a Full-Length Play,actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining…    
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Book details

List price: $16.95
Copyright year: 2008
Publisher: Skyhorse Publishing Company, Incorporated
Publication date: 10/16/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 208
Size: 5.25" wide x 8.50" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English

Kenn Adams began performing improvisation in 1989 with New York City's Freestyle Repertory Theater, the New York home for TheaterSports.� In 1990, he conceived and directed FRT's production of Play By Play, their first full-length improvised play.� He spent the next ten years performing, teaching and directing with FRT, as they grew to become the most innovative long-form improv company in New York City, and his unique approach to improvising full-length plays remains the core of their long-form performance structures.� In fact, many of Kenn's long-form methods, exercises, and training techniques, such as "The Story Spine" and the popular "Sit, Stand and Kneel" have been taught,…