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The Improv

The Improv

McDermott, M. J.

Paperback

General Fiction

ISBN10: 0984489843
ISBN13: 9780984489848
Publisher: Createspace
Published: Dec 29 2012
Pages: 242
Weight: 0.79
Height: 0.55 Width: 5.98 Depth: 9.02
Language: English
A novel based on a true story. For mature young adults. It is 1982 at a New England university, and drama major Margo Laughton is thrilled and terrified to be cast as Sheila in the rock musical Hair. The show's director, Professor Harrison P. Adler, is known for his daring productions. Rumors have circulated for decades about how Harry gets actors to break through their inhibitions. He prefers working with boys, encouraging them to become violent and explore their sexuality in carefully guided improvisations or improvs. In 1969, an actor in one of Harry's plays committed suicide. Is Harry a brilliant ground-breaking acting coach, or is he a manipulative voyeur who has found an academically and artistically sanctioned way to indulge his perversions? Margo and her leading man enjoy a playful rehearsal relationship that is shattered after a highly secretive, males-only improv. Margo is determined to find out what happened in the improv and the 1969 suicide, risking her romance and her hoped-for acting career in order to make sure that Harry never directs another play at the college.

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