Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction
ONE:
A CONTEXT FOR NONSCRIPTED THEATRE
1. The Nature Of Orality
2. The Literary Style
3. Preliterary Drama
4. Playback As Oral Theatre
5. The Six Branches
of Today’s Nonscripted Theatre
6. Modernist Attachments
TWO:
NONSCRIPTED THEATRE PRODUCTION
7. Spontaneity I: Not Thinking
8. Spontaneity II: Thinking
9. The Multimodal Actor
10. The Improvisational Director
11. The Conductor
12. Rehearsing
13. Performing
14. Company Life
THREE:
IMPROVISATION AND CULTURE
15. Language and Form in Nonscripted Theatre
16. Improvisation And Education
17. Theatre And Social Ecology
Appendix:
A Verbatim Performance
Selected
References
Index
Excerpt
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