Books in English
- Activities from Improvisation Theater to develop creativity, leadership, teambuilding, communication skills,...in organisations
- Improvisation applied to business or to life
- Improvisation Theater in general
Activities from Improvisation Theater to develop creativity, leadership, teambuilding, communication skills,...in organisations
58 1/2 Ways to Improvise in Training: Improvisation Games and Activities for Workshops, Courses and Team Meetings, Paul Z. Jackson
A trainer’s step-by-step guide to amazing activities which teach communication skills, leadership and creativity. Good selection of clearly-explained simple-to-run games, organized by number of participants, visual/verbal/physical matrix, degree of energy and time taken to run.
The inspirational trainer: Make Training Time Flexible, Responsive, Paul Z Jackson,Creative Kogan Page, 0-7494-3468-6
A wide-ranging handbook for trainers who aspire to inspire. Practical and provocative, tips and ideas, drawing on AL, drama, sports and psychology- wih particular reference to improvisation. Introduces concept of Rehearsals for Success, combining elements of role play, forum theatre and coaching..
(previously published in hardback as Impro Learning, Gower)
Theater Games for the Classroom: A Teacher's Handbook
Viola Spolin, Northwestern University Press
Exactly what the title says. A better organised book, with helpful bibliography and appendices.
Training to Imagine: Practical Improvisational Theatre Techniques to Enhance Creativity, Teamwork, Leadership and Learning, Kat Koppett
Working with groups to enhance Relationships : 46 interactive exercices to build communication, encourage cooperation and rekindle companionship, Marie-Nathalie Beaudoin and Sue Walden
Improvisation applied to business or to life
Competing on the Edge : Strategy as Structured Chaos, Shona L. Brown,and Kathleen M. Eisenhardt, Harvard Business School Press 1998
Everything's An Offer: How to do more with less Robert Poynton and Gary Hirsch 2008
Experiencing risk, spontaneity and improvisation in organizational change: working live. Shaw Patricia, Edited with Stacey, R.D. Routledge 2006,.
Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art, Steven Nachmanovitch
GameChangers -- Improvisation for Business in the Networked World,Mike Bonifer
Group Genius: The Creative Power of Collaboration, Keith Sawyer,
Improv Yourself: Business Spontaneity at the Speed of Thought by Joseph A. Keefe and Joe Keefe
Improv wisdom: Don't Prepare, Just Show Up, Patricia Ryan Madson, Bell Tower 2005
Improvisation, Inc.: Harnessing Spontaneity to Engage People and Groups ,Robert Lowe
Improvise This! How to Think on Your Feet So You Don't Fall on Your Face Mark Bergren, et al
Organizational Improvisation by: Kamoche, Ken; Cunha, Miguel Pina E.; Cunha, Joao Vieira Da
Presentation Zen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) Garr Reynolds, New Riders 2008
The Flexible Thinker: A Guide to Creative Wealth by Michael Rosenburg (Author), Helen Bauer (Illustrator), Michael D. Rosenberg (Author)
Transcultural Experiments by: Berry, Ellen E.
“When I Say This... ...Do You Mean That?:,: Enhancing on the Job Communication Skills Using the Rules and the Tools of the Improv Comedy Player, Cherie Kerr, Julia Sweeney 1998
Improvisation Theater in general
Acting on Impulse: The Art of Making Improv Theater, Carol Hazenfield
Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence, Ruth Zaporah, North Atlantic Books, California 1995
A 20-day course of exercises, with instructions and discussion. Plenty of intensive activities, mostly theatre, some dance. Good understanding of the heart of impro - expressed in whimsical lines.
Book on Acting: Improvisation Technique for the Professional Actor in Film, Theater, and Television , Stephen Book
Games for Actors and Non-Actors, Augusto Boal, Routledge London 1992
Political improvisation from the founder of Theatre of the Oppressed. Lots of great games, also plenty of concepts and jargon.
Group Improvisation: The Manual of Ensemble Improv Games, Peter Gwinn
Impro: Improvisation and the Theatre, Keith Johnstone, Methuen, 1979,
Still the best introduction to impro for the theatre. Very readable, funny and illuminating. A major inspiration for staged impro in UK, USA, Canada and Australia.
Improv! A handbook for the actor. Atkins, G. 1994. Portsmouth, NH: Heinemann
Improvisation: Use What You Know, Make Up What You Don't (2nd Edition) (Paperback), by Brad Newton
Improvisation for Actors and Writers: A Guidebook for Improv Lessons in Comedy Bill Lynn, Kip King
Improvisation for the Theater 3E: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques, Viola Spolin, Northwestern University Press
Johnstone’s main ‘rival’ as originator of theatre games as performance. Lots of exercises, thorough explanations, and useful ideas about things like side-coaching.
Playing Boal: Theatre, Therapy, Activism, Mady Schutzman and Jan Cohen-Cruz, Routledge London 1994
Mixed bag of essays from Boal practitioners and watchers. Impro for politics and for therapy, links back to Moreno.
The Improv Handbook: The Ultimate Guide to Improvising in Comedy, Theatre, and Beyond Tom Salinsky, Deborah Frances-White
Theater Games for the Lone Actor Viola Spolin, A Handbook, 2001
The Playbook: Improv Games for Performers, William Hall www.improvplaybook.com
Truth in Comedy :The Manual of Improvisation Charna Halpern,and Del Close 1952
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