How to Improvise a Full-length Play The Art of Spontaneous Theater.PDF

How to Improvise

a Full-Length Play

The Art of Spontaneous Theater

K e n n A d A m s

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Cover design by Derek Bacchus

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Cover photo by Nicole Potter-Talling

ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-493-1

ISBN-10: 1-58115-493-3

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Adams, Kenn.

How to improvise a full-length play : the art of spontaneous theater / Kenn Adams.

p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-493-1 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 1-58115-493-3 (pbk.)

1. Improvisation (Acting) 2. Playwriting. I. Title.

PN2071.I5A33 2008

792.02'8—dc22

2007015623

DEDICATION

To Laura Livingston, Michael Durkin, and the fabulous

improvisers of Freestyle Repertory Theater ... now,

then, and always.

To Ruby, my mom, for her unconditional love and support.

To Heather Adams, my beautiful daughter, who fills me, each

day, with the magic of make-believe.