{"id":34,"date":"2016-01-02T20:07:10","date_gmt":"2016-01-02T20:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=34"},"modified":"2025-02-19T20:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-02-19T20:41:54","slug":"improvisation-technique-2","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=34","title":{"rendered":"Improvisation Technique"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure style=\"width: 105px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/1879505606\/ref=as_li_tl?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=9325&amp;creativeASIN=1879505606&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=stephenbook-20&amp;linkId=DOSURAGDBJ5PKANW\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/stephenbook.com\/images\/BOAsmall.jpg\" alt=\"Book on Acting\" width=\"105\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Click book to order from Amazon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>BOOK ON ACTING<\/strong><br \/>\n<em>Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television<\/em><br \/>\n<em> A new technique for improvising performances with scripted and memorized lines<\/em><br \/>\nBy Stephen Book<\/p>\n<p>(Silman-James Press, 630 pages, 7\u00d710, 978-1-879505-60-5, $24.95 paper)<\/p>\n<p><strong>CLICK <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=17\">HERE<\/a> FOR CONTENTS<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\u201cStephen Book manages to articulate a technique that both allows the actor to be specific in silence and active and emotionally affective when speaking. He helps you tap into that endless well which is human.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-3m c1-8q\">\u2013 Viola Davis<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cImprovisation is essential to acting and Book is a terrific teacher.\u201d<br \/>\n<strong class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-3m c1-8q\">\u2013 William Hurt<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>\u201cIn adapting improvisation exercises to script work, Stephen Book challenges some of the received wisdom of modern American training and offers a practical method for professional actors who want to learn how to infuse their work with spontaneity. Book\u2019s exercises demonstrate how much further you can go, imaginatively speaking, when acting.\u201d<br \/>\n<b>-Backstage<\/b><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The ability to improvise a skilled performance while speaking scripted and memorized lines is of paramount importance to actors working in today\u2019s film and television productions, which often allow very little if any rehearsal time. Through his innovative Improvisation Technique, Stephen Book shows the actor how to create a spontaneous performance by applying improvisation to traditional script-acting for film, theater, and television.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">Book On Acting<\/em>\u00a0begins with immediate training in how to improvise. Book\u2019s fundamental principle of improvisation is \u201cActing is doing, and there is always more to do.\u201d The actor learns what to do to keep himself in a spontaneous improvisational state.<\/p>\n<p>This Improvisation Technique is then applied to exercises with scripted lines, developing sophisticated improvisation skills for enhancing character, emotions, conflict, and agreement as well as improving the actor\u2019s audition process. Also included is a unique process for breaking down scripted scenes into improvisation choices.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">Book On Acting<\/em>\u00a0contains film and television scenes in which Book-coached actors, used his Improvisation Technique to create their performances. These scenes, showing the actors\u2019 performance choices, demonstrate the use of Improvisation Technique in different genres of acting. Well-known theater and film scenes are included, as well as scenes from such TV shows as\u00a0<em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">Melrose Place<\/em>,\u00a0<em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">Star Trek: Voyager, L.A. Law, Frasier<\/em>, and\u00a0<em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">The Practice.<\/em>\u00a0Thirteen of his present or former students either star in title roles or as cast regulars in the current primetime television schedule at the time of publication.<\/p>\n<p>Book\u2019s Improvisation Technique extends the work of Viola Spolin (author of\u00a0<em class=\"x-el x-el-span c1-1b c1-1c c1-b c1-8p c1-1q c1-1n c1-8q c1-8r\">Improvisation for the Theater<\/em>). Book was Spolin\u2019s student, assistant, representative, and her partner in the Spolin Theater Game Center in Hollywood, where he served as executive director and principal teacher in the 1970s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BOOK ON ACTING Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television A new technique for improvising performances with scripted and memorized lines By Stephen Book (Silman-James Press, 630 pages, 7\u00d710, 978-1-879505-60-5, $24.95 paper) CLICK HERE FOR CONTENTS \u201cStephen Book manages to articulate a technique that both allows the actor to be specific &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/?page_id=34\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Improvisation Technique<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-34","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":468,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/34\/revisions\/468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stephenbook.com\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}