Deborah and I were delighted this morning to receive copies of The Improv Handbook – our new book on improvisation The Spontaneity Shop way. It is in the shops NOW if you live in the USA and will be in the shops here within the next four weeks. But you can always buy it on Amazon and they will send it to your door.
The Improv Handbook is 400+ pages of improv goodness, tips and tricks, games and techniques and is a complete guide to how to improvise, how to stage an improv show and why anyone should bother. It also includes interviews with such leading lights of the improv scene as Keith Johnstone, Charna Halpern and Neil Mullarkey.
To celebrate, we’ve put a new page up on our website, The Spontaneity Shop library, showing you all the books we think you’d like. Buy, open, read and enjoy!
http://www.the-spontaneity-shop.com/workshops/library.html
2 October 2008 at 07:59 |
I recently found “The Improv Handbook” in the library just before going off to teach a four day improvisation workshop to a dozen teenagers, and it was a lifesaver! The book is so inspirational, I felt very lucky to have randomly found it at the perfect time. It also inspired me to go find some improv classes to take myself, since as you said no writing is a substitute for the real thing, and leading a workshop drove home for me just how long it’d been since I’d taken a class myself… Anyway, just wanted to say thanks for writing such a fabulous book!