Books For The Actor
The Young Actor's Book of Improvisation
Sandra Caruso & Susan Kosoff

With over two hundred dramatic situations, this volume is by far the most extensive sourcebook available for nurturing young actors' improvisational work. The range is vast. Sandra Caruso includes everything from beloved classics to folk and fairy tales to modern realism and contemporary stories, facilitating improvisational work of equal variety.
Acting Games : Improvisations and Exercises
Marsh Gary Cassady

A book of acting games and improvisations to assist students in developing their creative abilities. It includes sections devoted to games for relaxing and focusing, helping students discover new ways of seeing themselves, others and the world around them, demonstrating with improvisations how to use space to build scenes and create characters from imagination, and acting games to analyze and play characters from existing plays.
                   
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