The Compass: The Improvisational Theatre That Revolutionized American Comedy

by Janet Coleman

Book Overview

Janet Coleman brilliantly recreates the time, the place, the personalities, and the neurotic magic whereby the Compass made theater history in America. The Compass began in a storefront theater near the University of Chicago campus in the summer of 1955 and lasted only a few years before its players--including David Shepherd, Paul Sills, Elaine May, Mike Nichols, Barbara Harris, and Shelley Berman--moved on. Out of this group was born a new form:...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226113450
• ISBN13: 9780226113456
• Release Date: November 1991
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 362 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.2" x 9.3"