Improvisation in Drama, Theatre and Performance: History, Practice, Theory

Improvisation is a tool for many things: performance training, rehearsal practice, playwriting, therapeutic interaction and somatic discovery. This book opens up the significance of improvisation across cultures, histories and ways of performing our life, offering key insights into the what, the how and the why of performance.

It traces the origins of improvisation and its influences, both as a social and political phenomenon and its position in performance training. Including history, theo...