A guide that covers the history of improvisation and includes chapters on spontaneity and the fundamentals of storytelling. It also includes sections on how to improvise in front of an audience and - just as crucially - how to attract an audience in the first place.
"The Improv Handbook" provides everything someone interested in improvisational comedy needs to know, as written by a husband-and-wife comedy duo with years of experience and teaching in the field.
"Cofounders of the London-based improvisational theater company The Spontaneity Shop, Salinsky and Frances-White provide a wonderful addition to the growing literature on theatrical improvisation. The book can serve as both a scholarly resource, since it covers the history of improvisation from its beginnings to the present, and a practical guide, for the beginner and advanced improviser... The authors include interviews with ten leading international improvisers, and they conclude with an appendix that details many of the most common improvisational games used in academic and professional settings. This book is a must for institutions supporting theater and performance programs. Summing Up: Highly recommended. All readers, all levels." -S.W. Cole, CHOICE, January 2009
