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Let's Improv!: Your guide to scriptless onstage comedy
There’s a magic to improv. Whether as audience or players, we are participating in an event in which the process is the product, and the product is a process.
The performers generate characters, lines and scenes for the first and last time right in front of the audience. They aim to create comedy, art and drama together – each person contributing to a unique mosaic in real time.
This book is an insider's guide to improvised comedy for performers, directors and audiences. Full of insightful tips, exercises and stories, it's entirely practical.
It's for you whether you are an experienced player, someone considering attending your first workshop, or a curious audience member wondering what on earth is going on in these spontaneity-filled shows known as improv.
What sets it apart is Paul Z Jackson's unique mix of reportage and opinion. For such a collaboration-based practice, improv generates surprisingly heated divergences of opinion on what should be taught and how to teach it.
You’ll find perspectives on those debates here. Whilst the focus is theatrical, the applications reach much further, into the field of Applied Improvisation and how it can enhance your work, relationships and life.
In improvised comedy there are no rules. Here are the rules.
The performers generate characters, lines and scenes for the first and last time right in front of the audience. They aim to create comedy, art and drama together – each person contributing to a unique mosaic in real time.
This book is an insider's guide to improvised comedy for performers, directors and audiences. Full of insightful tips, exercises and stories, it's entirely practical.
It's for you whether you are an experienced player, someone considering attending your first workshop, or a curious audience member wondering what on earth is going on in these spontaneity-filled shows known as improv.
What sets it apart is Paul Z Jackson's unique mix of reportage and opinion. For such a collaboration-based practice, improv generates surprisingly heated divergences of opinion on what should be taught and how to teach it.
You’ll find perspectives on those debates here. Whilst the focus is theatrical, the applications reach much further, into the field of Applied Improvisation and how it can enhance your work, relationships and life.
In improvised comedy there are no rules. Here are the rules.
188 pages, Kindle Edition
Published December 14, 2025
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