Text Resources


The following resources will help facilitators with performance and improvisation development:


Action Theater: The Improvisation of Presence by Ruth Zaporah. North Atlantic Books. Berkeley, California.

Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal. Routledge Press. New York.

The Rainbow of Desire: The Boal Method of Theater and Therapy by Augusto Boal. Routledge Press. New York.

Inter-Active Acting: Acting, Improvisation, and Interacting for Audience Participatory Theater by Jeff Wirth. Fall Creek Press. Fall Creek, Oregon.

Acts of Service: Spontaneity, Commitment, Tradition in the Nonscripted Theater by Jonathan Fox. 1994.

Improvisation Through Theater Sports by Lynda Belt & Rebecca Stockley. Thespis Productions, 1989.

Improvising Real Life: Personal Story in Playback Theater by Jo Salas. Kendall/Hunt Publishing, 1993.

Playing Boal: Theater, Therapy, Activism edited by Mady Schutzman & Jan Cohen-Cruz. Routledge. New York, 1994.

Truth in Comedy: The Manual of Improvisation by Charna Halpern, Del Close & Kim Johnson. Meriwether Publishing Limited, 1994.

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