2008-07-28 Buy it! Buy it now! And read it in two days - mind blowing!

This book is wonderfully practical, without omitting the philosophy of Improv that makes it the exciting, living art form that it is. Salinsky and Frances-White have brought the pages of their manual alive with anecdotes from their vast experience that prove the power of narrative and make this book not only informative but entertaining in its own right. The personalities of the writers themselves as well as the practitioners they interview leap out of the pages in glorious 3D. This is not your average "how to" book. The authors have been very generous in sharing their experience. There is not only a section on "How to Improvise" where they have given the reader their own Level One syllabus, but a very useful section on how to make money from this gloriously ephemeral art. They are generously providing the reader, whether a teacher or student of improv, with the werewithal to make a living doing the thing they love. This is a book on Improv written with the spirit of Improv that should go on the shelf alongside the improv classics, Impro, Impro for Storytellers and Truth in Comedy - superb!