How To Improvise a Full-Length Play

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ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-493-1

ISBN-10: 1-58115-493-3

eBook ISBN: 978-1-58115-797-0

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Adams, Kenn.

How to improvise a full-length play : the art of spontaneous theater / Kenn Adams. p. cm.

ISBN-13: 978-1-58115-493-1 (pbk.)

ISBN-10: 1-58115-493-3 (pbk.)

1. Improvisation (Acting) 2. Playwriting. I. Title.

PN2071.I5A33 2008

792.02'8—dc22

2007015623