Forget the script and get on the stage! In How to Improvise a Full-Length Play, actors, playwrights, directors, theater-group leaders, and teachers will find everything they need to know to create comedy, tragedy, melodrama, and farce, with no scripts, no scenarios, and no preconceived characters. Author Kenn Adams presents a step-by-step method for long-form improvisation, covering plot structure, storytelling, character development, symbolism, and advanced scene work. Games and exercises throughout the book help actors and directors focus on and succeed with cause-and-effect storytelling, raising the dramatic stakes, creating dramatic conflict, building the dramatic arc, defining characters, creating environments, establishing relationships, and more. How to Improvise a Full-Length Play is the essential tool for anyone who wants to create exceptional theater.

忘掉剧本，走上舞台 在《如何即兴创作一部长剧》中，演员、剧作家、导演、剧团领导和教师将找到他们需要知道的一切，以创造喜剧、悲剧、情节剧和闹剧，不需要剧本、不需要场景、不需要预先设定的人物。作者肯恩-亚当斯提出了一种分步骤的长篇即兴创作方法，包括情节结构、讲故事、人物发展、象征主义和高级场景工作。贯穿全书的游戏和练习帮助演员和导演专注于因果关系的讲述并取得成功，提高戏剧性的赌注，创造戏剧性的冲突，建立戏剧性的弧线，定义人物，创造环境，建立关系，等等。如何即兴创作一部长剧》是任何想创作卓越戏剧的人的必备工具。