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Improvising Better
A Guide for the Working Improviser

Jimmy Carrane, Liz Allen

ISBN 978-0-325-00942-1 / 0-325-00942-2 / 2006 / 80pp / Paperback
Imprint: Heinemann Drama
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Grade Level: College-Adult

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Improvising Better is an easy to read self-help book created with the new generation of improviser in mind. It’s written for today’s performers, looking for a quick fix to their performance problems. This book is a fast read with long-lasting results.

Jimmy Carrane and Liz Allen have improvised, taught, and directed in Chicago for over thirty years combined, and have either seen or experienced the most common problems facing improvisers today. Improvising Better will give you simple tools for repairing your improvisation through original and enhanced exercises. This book addresses the improviser as a whole, including how offstage issues affect onstage performance. Speaking candidly about this very personal art form, Carrane and Allen offer common-sense solutions, some tough love, and a little inspiration along the way.

Whether you are a beginner or a veteran, Improvising Better will catapult you to the next level in your career as a working improviser.

Table of Contents
    Acknowledgments
    1. Why We Wrote Our Book
    2. How to Read Our Book
    3. What Happened to Yes?
    4. Nice People + Nice Choices = Boring Scenes
    5. Anger Is Okay
    6. Afraid of Naming People, Places and Events
    7. Misguided Object Work
    8. You Are Required to Play the Opposite Sex
    9. Fear of Playing Politically Incorrect Characters
    10. By the Way, It’s Acting
    11. It’s Not the Words, It’s the Connection
    12. Lack of Trust
    13. Choosing the Funny over the Craft
    14. The Improv Committee Resides in Your Head
    15. Stop Wanting
    16. Yes Begins Offstage
    17. Spreading Yourself Too Thin
    18. Improv Is Bigger Than You Think
    19. Love the Process
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