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Process : an improviser's journey / Mary Scruggs and Michael J. Gellman ; foreword by Anne Libera.

By:

Scruggs, Mary [author.]

Contributor(s):

Gellman, Michael J [author.]

Material type: Text

TextAnalytics: Show analyticsPublisher: Evanston, Ill. : Northwestern University Press, 2008Description: xxvii, 155 pages ; 22 cmContent type:

text

Media type:

unmediated

Carrier type:

volume

ISBN:

0810124726
9780810124721

Subject(s):

Improvisation (Acting)

DDC classification:

792.028 22

LOC classification:

PN2071.I5 S38 2008

Online resources:

Contributor biographical information

Contents:

1. An Improviser's Journey -- 2. The Audition -- 3. A New Journey -- 4. Objects, Environments, and a Trip Through the Imagination -- 5. The Trouble with Words -- 6. The Universe Within a Single Point of Concentration -- 7. Looking Out -- 8. Couch and Point of View -- 9. A Small Town Called Henry -- 10. Five-Minute Porch Plays -- 11. Here, There Be Dragons.

Review: "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.

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Includes bibliographical references (page 155).

"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.

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