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Impro for Storytellers

by Keith Johnstone · 1999

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Impro for Storytellers is the follow-up to Keith Johnstone's classic Impro, one of the best-selling books ever published on improvisation. Impro for Storytellers aims to take jealous and self-obsessed beginners and teach them to play games with good nature and to fail gracefully.

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theatretheatreMore like thisLess of thiswriterswritersMore like thisLess of thiscreativitycreativityMore like thisLess of thisstorytellingstorytellingMore like thisLess of thiscommunicationcommunicationMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 388 pages

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