How to Improvise a Full-Length Play

A unique guide—use improv to create an exciting evening of theater

Forget the script and get on the stage! In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play , actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining characters, creating environments, establishing relationships, and more. How to Improvise a Full-Length Play is the essential tool for anyone who wants

to create exceptional theater.

• An innovative approach to creating compelling

dramatic work

• Take improv to the next level

• Involve actors, directors, everyone in the

creative process