Impro for Storytellers

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By: Keith Johnstone

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Paperback | 24 June 1999 | Edition Number 1

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Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. In this book, Johnstone takes a further decade of experience as a teacher and coach and explores how an individual's potential can be released in group settings. "Be more boring!" he might yell to a student striving to be original. "Be more obvious!" he could advise a clever performer.These are unorthodox techniques, but ones that are part of the games that have made Johnstone's work uniquely effective in the theatre community. Beyond its strictly theatrical applications, Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.If you've ever been clumsy and awkward, this book will improve your interpersonal skills and encourage a life-long study of human interaction.

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With this in mind, I honour the seminal writing of Keith Johnstone in the field of improvisation and the great care that he has taken to share, teach and explore his Theatresports theories with drama and acting students, practitioners, researchers and audiences worldwide..

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Introduction	p. ix
Theatresports	p. 1
Origins	p. 1
Theatresports at Loose Moose	p. 2
Theatresports by Stealth	p. 6
Teaching the 'Form'	p. 7
In at the Deep End	p. 11
Disaster is Unavoidable	p. 12
The Sticky Stage	p. 12
The Magnetic Stage	p. 13
Challenges	p. 13
The Warning for Boring	p. 16
Misbehaviour	p. 18
Using Audience Volunteers	p. 20
Mime	p. 21
Why is Theatresports a Comic Form?	p. 22
Types of Player	p. 23
What Theatresports Can Achieve	p. 23
Audience Suggestions	p. 25
No One Cares	p. 25
Laughter Misleads	p. 26
Traps	p. 28
Rejecting Suggestions	p. 28
Scene Sale	p. 29
Use Restraint	p. 29
Trouble with Feedback	p. 31
Getting Educated	p. 31
Fools' Paradise	p. 31
Destructive Feedback	p. 33
Being 'Over-cheered'	p. 33
Group-Yes	p. 34
Flashlight Theatre	p. 36
The 'Seen Enough' Game	p. 36
Theme and Forfeit	p. 39
Gorilla Theatre	p. 42
Micetro Impro	p. 49
Spontaneity	p. 55
'Here Be Monsters'	p. 55
Being a Chameleon	p. 55
No Syllabus	p. 55
Progressive Desensitization	p. 56
Paradoxical Teaching	p. 56
Tug-o'War	p. 57
Giving Presents	p. 58
Evaluating the Work	p. 59
Playing Tag	p. 59
On Not Making the Rules Clear	p. 60
Blame Me	p. 60
Drop Dead, Keith	p. 61
Volunteers, and Failure	p. 61
When Students Fail	p. 62
Forcing Failure	p. 63
Don't Punish Yourself	p. 64
Be Average	p. 64
Sport Versus Show-business	p. 66
The Wrong Risks	p. 67
Dullness is Deliberate	p. 68
Being 'Original'	p. 69
The Imagination	p. 72
Prodigies	p. 73
Impro for Storytellers	p. 75
Journey without Maps	p. 75
Action and Interaction	p. 76
On Not Being a Hero	p. 78
Moral Decisions	p. 78
Circles of Expectation	p. 79
Point	p. 80
Justification	p. 81
Mysteries	p. 82
Breaking the Routine	p. 84
Fun with Tilting	p. 89
Making Things Happen	p. 101
Blocking	p. 101
Being Negative	p. 113
Wimping	p. 114
Cancelling	p. 118
Joining	p. 118
Gossiping	p. 118
Agreed Activities	p. 120
Bridging	p. 120
Hedging	p. 123
Sidetracking	p. 123
Being Original	p. 124
Looping	p. 124
Gagging	p. 125
Comic Exaggeration	p. 127
Conflict	p. 128
Instant Trouble	p. 128
Lowering the Stakes	p. 128
Consequences	p. 129
Story Games	p. 130
Creating Games	p. 130
Word-at-a-Time	p. 131
What Comes Next?	p. 134
Non-sequential Lists	p. 142
Link the Items	p. 144
Verbal Chase	p. 144
The Boris Game	p. 145
Keyboard Game	p. 151
Being There	p. 155
Three-word Sentences	p. 155
One-word Sentences	p. 155
The Hat-Game	p. 156
Making Faces	p. 162
The Vampire	p. 168
Leave for the Same Reason	p. 169
Dubbing	p. 171
Invisibility	p. 178
The Ghost Game	p. 181
Some Filler Games	p. 183
The Die Game	p. 183
Emotional Goals	p. 184
Endowments	p. 185
Freeze Games	p. 186
Guess the Phrase	p. 187
The No 'S' Game	p. 188
A Scene without ...	p. 189
Sideways Scenes	p. 189
Yes-But	p. 190
Procedures	p. 192
Blind Offers	p. 192
Justify the Gesture	p. 193
He Said/She Said	p. 195
Substitution Impro	p. 199
Moving Bodies	p. 200
The Arms	p. 202
The Dwarf	p. 204
The Giant	p. 204
Adjective	p. 204
Wide Eyes	p. 204
Wide Mouth	p. 206
Tempo	p. 207
Sound Scape	p. 208
You're Interesting	p. 209
Boring the Audience	p. 211
Wallpaper Drama	p. 212
Straight Men	p. 213
Gibberish	p. 214
Status	p. 219
The Kinetic Dance	p. 232
Party Endowments	p. 233
Sandwiches	p. 236
The King Game	p. 237
Master-Servant	p. 240
Slow-motion Commentary	p. 241
Verse	p. 245
The Klutz	p. 246
Advancing (And Not Advancing)	p. 248
Hitting with Balloons	p. 254
Beep-Beep	p. 260
Serious Scenes	p. 264
Substituting Phrases	p. 264
Love and Hate	p. 265
Emotional Sounds	p. 268
Mantras	p. 270
Alfred Lunt	p. 274
Character	p. 275
Who Are We?	p. 275
Changing the Body Image	p. 276
Machines	p. 277
People Machines	p. 277
Being Animals	p. 278
Obsessions	p. 280
Fast-Food Laban	p. 283
Fast-Food Stanislavsky	p. 285
Miscellaneous Games	p. 302
Bell and Buzzer	p. 302
Scenes with Fingers	p. 302
People as Objects	p. 303
Dennis's Puppet Show	p. 304
Changing the Object	p. 304
Entertainment Games	p. 307
Stealing	p. 307
The Knife Game	p. 308
Hand on Knee	p. 310
Spasms	p. 314
Paper-Flicking	p. 316
Speech Defect Game	p. 317
Technical Stuff	p. 320
Judges	p. 320
Penalties	p. 325
Counting Out	p. 326
Waving the Lights Down	p. 327
Scoring	p. 327
Three Seldom-used Versions of Theatresports	p. 328
The Five Theatresports Matches in Current Use	p. 329
Rules of Theatresports	p. 331
Afterthoughts	p. 337
The Body	p. 337
The Mind	p. 338
The Sexes	p. 338
Quality	p. 339
Great Audiences	p. 340
Great Improvisers	p. 341
Getting Jaded	p. 341
Fast-Food Stanislavsky Lists	p. 343
A Selection of Tilt Lists	p. 354
More Filler Games	p. 362
Notes I've Given	p. 369
Index of Games	p. 373
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