Process : an improviser's journey /
Scruggs, Mary,
Process : an improviser's journey / Mary Scruggs and Michael J. Gellman ; foreword by Anne Libera. - xxvii, 155 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 155).
An Improviser's Journey -- The Audition -- A New Journey -- Objects, Environments, and a Trip Through the Imagination -- The Trouble with Words -- The Universe Within a Single Point of Concentration -- Looking Out -- Couch and Point of View -- A Small Town Called Henry -- Five-Minute Porch Plays -- Here, There Be Dragons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
"Modeled after An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Process introduces readers to Geoff, a fictional young actor taking a class based on author Michael J. Gellman's real-life workshops. Geoff, who has just moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career, undergoes the standard trials of audition and rejection before he takes the advice of a fellow actor and turns to improv classes at The Second City. At first Geoff thinks improvisation is about laughs and loosening up, but he soon learns that it is a powerful tool for traditional actors as well as a craft in and of itself. Through Geoff's experience, readers discover key tenets of improvisation: concentration, visualization, focus, object work, being in the moment, and the crucial "yes, and.""--BOOK JACKET.
0810124726 9780810124721
2007035886
Improvisation (Acting)
PN2071.I5 / S38 2008
792.028
Process : an improviser's journey / Mary Scruggs and Michael J. Gellman ; foreword by Anne Libera. - xxvii, 155 pages ; 22 cm
Includes bibliographical references (page 155).
An Improviser's Journey -- The Audition -- A New Journey -- Objects, Environments, and a Trip Through the Imagination -- The Trouble with Words -- The Universe Within a Single Point of Concentration -- Looking Out -- Couch and Point of View -- A Small Town Called Henry -- Five-Minute Porch Plays -- Here, There Be Dragons. 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11.
"Modeled after An Actor Prepares by Konstantin Stanislavsky, Process introduces readers to Geoff, a fictional young actor taking a class based on author Michael J. Gellman's real-life workshops. Geoff, who has just moved to Chicago to pursue an acting career, undergoes the standard trials of audition and rejection before he takes the advice of a fellow actor and turns to improv classes at The Second City. At first Geoff thinks improvisation is about laughs and loosening up, but he soon learns that it is a powerful tool for traditional actors as well as a craft in and of itself. Through Geoff's experience, readers discover key tenets of improvisation: concentration, visualization, focus, object work, being in the moment, and the crucial "yes, and.""--BOOK JACKET.
0810124726 9780810124721
2007035886
Improvisation (Acting)
PN2071.I5 / S38 2008
792.028