Steve’s Favourites

Websites

Books

Theatre

  • Impro by Keith Johnstone
  • Impro For Storytellers by Keith Johnstone
  • The Improv Handbook by Deborah Frances-White and Tom Salinsky
  • Creating Improvised Theatre – Mark Jane
  • Theatre Games for the Lone Actor by Viola Spolin
  • Why is that so Funny? and Playing the Mask by John Wright
  • The Mask Handbook by Toby Wilsher

Other

  • Sapiens and Nexus by Yuval Noah Harari
  • Enlightenment Now by Stephen Pinker
  • Doing Good Better by William MacGaskill
  • A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
  • The Art of Living by William Hart
  • The Story of My Experiments With Truth by M.K. Gandhi
  • Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse

Films

  • The Kid, The Great DictatorCharlie Chaplin
  • The General, The Navigator, (all films) – Buster Keaton
  • Duck Soup, A Night at the Opera – The Marx Brothers
  • Kid Brother – Harold Lloyd
  • “I Claudia” – The National Film Board of Canada
  • Wall-e – Pixar
  • Magnolia – Paul Thomas Anderson
  • Raising Arizona – The Cohen Brothers

Podcasts

Sam Harris – Making Sense