Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation
	Author: Charna Halpern Published: 1994-04
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Customer comments on this selection. Just Two Books On Improv? This is one of them. Viola Spolin wrote down the rule book, but Del Close and Charna Halpern make improv an independent field of study and teach people how to use it. Truth in comedy Having a bit of trouble wading through the issue of how much better this method is than any other form of improv on the planet. Gets very old, and makes me want to put the book down, which is finally what I did. Can't imagine why it is necessary to continually inform the reader of the value of the stylistic differences, and the superiority of this method. Didn't Shakespeare have something to say about this need? Changed the way I thought about improv While Truth In Comedy is certainly not your usual "how to" book, the essential task this book accomplishes is revolutionizing how you view improvisation. Some may call the book a tad pretentious in terms of its wording and how many times the names of famous I.O alumni are dropped, but at is core, the book truly will change the way you think about a scene. Taking a truly philosophical approach, Truth in Comedy manages to integrate helpful tips with concise and essay like paragraphs on the nature of improv. If you take the time to really think about what Close says in the book, the tips don't feel like tips but instead become the natural thing to do. As a bit of a strange follow up to this book I read The Art of Dramatic Writing. Anyone truly interested in the nature of improvisation should read about and then compare. The connections will be easy to follow once you have read both books and will change the way you think of the term moment to moment. Insightful Insightful. Covers lots of basics and inspires me to be a better improv actor! Helpful for students, but kind of nutty The entire book could probably be boiled down to a few xerox-able handouts, but the examples of successful games and scenes were very helpful for someone trying to get a handle on the basic "Harold" form of improvisation. Charna Halpern weirds me out a little bit when she starts talking seriously about intense mental connections between improvisers that allow them to see into the future and even manifest human beings.
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