{"id":1867,"date":"2018-06-06T16:38:30","date_gmt":"2018-06-06T15:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/?post_type=resource&#038;p=1867"},"modified":"2021-01-27T14:55:23","modified_gmt":"2021-01-27T14:55:23","slug":"improv-books","status":"publish","type":"resource","link":"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/improv-books.html","title":{"rendered":"Improv Books"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1>Improv Books<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/h1>\n<p><strong>These all support our <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/improv-classes-london.html\">improv classes<\/a>, in fact many of them are even written by our teachers!<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Impro by Keith Johnstone.<\/p>\n<p>Impro for Storytellers by Keith Johnstone.<\/p>\n<p>Truth in Comedy by Charna Halpern, Del Close, Kim Johnson.<\/p>\n<p>Improvise! by Max Dickins (Hoopla teacher and our Director of Corporate Training).<\/p>\n<p>Improv by John Cremer (Hoopla and Maydays teacher).<\/p>\n<p>The Improviser\u2019s Way by Katy Schutte (Hoopla teacher).<\/p>\n<p>The Improv Book: Improvisation for Theatre, Comedy, Education and Life by Alison Goldie (Hoopla Teacher).<\/p>\n<p>The Upright Citizens Brigade Comedy Improvisation Manual by Ian Roberts, Matt Besser, and Matt Walsh.<\/p>\n<p>Improvise by Mick Napier.<\/p>\n<p>Improvisation for Theatre by Viola Spolin.<\/p>\n<p>Genius Now by Alan Marriott.<\/p>\n<p>The Improv Handbook by Tom Salinsky and Deborah Frances- White.<\/p>\n<p>The Art of Chicago Improv by Rob Kozlowski.<\/p>\n<p>Jill Bernard&#8217;s Small Cute Book of Improv.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Acting Books<\/h1>\n<p>Why is that so Funny? By John Wright.<\/p>\n<p>Sanford Meisner on Acting by Dennis Longwell.<\/p>\n<p>Presence by Patsy Rodenburg.<\/p>\n<p>Commedia dell\u2019Arte by John Rudlin.<\/p>\n<p>Theatre of the Oppressed by Augusto Boal.<\/p>\n<p>True and False: Heresy and Common Sense for the Actor by David Mamet.<\/p>\n<p>The Empty Space by Peter Brook.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Writing Books<\/h1>\n<p>Writer&#8217;s Journey by Christopher Vogler.<\/p>\n<p>The Hero with a Thousand Faces by Joseph Campbell.<\/p>\n<p>Save the Cat by Blake Snyder.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<h1>Other Helpful Books<\/h1>\n<p>The Artist\u2019s Way by Julia Cameron.<\/p>\n<p>The War of Art by Steven Pressfield.<\/p>\n<p>How to be a Productivity Ninja by Graham Allcott.<\/p>\n<p>Self- Reliance and Other Essays by Ralph Waldo Emmerson.<\/p>\n<p>Four Arguments for the Elimination of Television by Jerry Mander.<\/p>\n<p>So You Want To Be A Theatre Producer? by James Seabright.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":2905,"template":"","format":"standard","class_list":["post-1867","resource","type-resource","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","resource-category-all-resources"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Improv Books | Hoopla<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hooplaimpro.com\/improv-books.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_GB\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Improv Books | Hoopla\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Improv Books These all support our improv classes, in fact many of them are even written by our teachers! 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