Improvisation for the Theater: A Handbook of Teaching and Directing Techniques by SPOLIN, Viola - 1977

Evanston: Northwestern University Press. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1977. Hardcover. An eleventh printing of this guide to improvization in theater. Per a back-of-the-jacket blurb, this is "An iconoclastic handbook of theater by the high priestess of improvisational theater in this country. . .The exercises are artifices against artificiality. . .". --- In full rust cloth-covered boards with spine titling in black. Jacket with images of actors' hands during performances. --- With penciled underlinings on at least one leaf, otherwise a clean, bright, tightly-bound copy. Dust jacket with chipping and small tears along edges and a penciling; mostly intact and protected in removable archival mylar protector.; Tall Octavo - 9 to 10 in. tall; xxv, 397 pages .