If you are interested in learning more about improvisation, check out these books. Date listed is most recent known printing.

Barker, Clive
Theatre Games: A New Approach to Drama Training , Eyre Methuen (UK), 1977

Bell, Linda & Stockley
Improvisation Through TheatreSports , Thespis Productions, 1989

Bernardi, Philip
Improvisation Starters: A Collection of 900 Improvisation Situations for the Theater , Betterway Publications, 1992

Boal, Augusto
Games for Actors and Non-Actors , Routledge, 1992

Boyd, Neva
Handbook of Recreational Games
, 1945

Brook, Peter
The Empty Space , Avon, 1969
The Shifting Point , Harper & Rowe, 1987

Caruso, Sandra & Clemens, Paul
The Actor's Book of Improvisation: Dramatic Situations for the Teacher and the Actor , Penguin, 1992

Chekhov, Michael
On The Technique of Acting
 , Harper, 1993

Coleman, Janet
The Compass (History of The Compass/Second City) , Knopf, 1990

Frost, Anthony & Yarrow, Ralph
Improvisation in Drama , St. Martinās Press, 1989

Goldberg, Andy
Improv Comedy
, Samuel French, 1991

Halpern, Charna & Close, Del & Johnson, Kim
Truth In Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation , Meriwether, 1994

Johnstone, Keith
Don't Be Prepared , Loose Moose, 1995
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre , Theatre Arts Books, 1979

Marowitz, Charles
The Act of Being
, Taplinger, 1978

Meisner, Sanford & Longwell, Dennis
Sanford Meisner on Acting
, Vintage, 1987

Scher, Anna & Verra, Charles
200+ Ideas for Drama , Heinemann, 1975

Sills, Paul
More Story Theatre, Samuel French, 1981
Story Theatre , Samuel French, 1971

Spolin, Viola
Improvisation for the Theatre , Northwestern University Press, 1963
Theatre Games for Rehearsal: A Director's Handbook , Northwestern University Press, 1985
Theatre Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook, Northwestern University Press, 1986

Stanislavski, Constantin
An Actor Prepares, Theatre Arts Books, 1989

Sweet, Jeffrey
Something Wonderful Right Away (re The Compass/ Second City)
, Limelight Editions, 1986

Wirth, Jeff
Interactive Acting
, Fall Creek Press, 1994

Thanks to G. Younts and Mike Rock for compiling much of this info.

 

 


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