Scruggs, Mary, <br/><br/>
Process :  an improviser's journey / 
Mary Scruggs and Michael J. Gellman ; foreword by Anne Libera. 
 - xxvii, 155 pages ;  22 cm 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references (page 155). 
<br/><br/> 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. 
<br/><br/> "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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0810124726 9780810124721 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2007035886 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Improvisation (Acting)
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>PN2071.I5  / S38 2008 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>792.028